Science Camp 2017
Registration Is Open!
Land & Sea Camp: July 1-10
Air & Space Camp: July 11-20
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Campers become teachers at the Volcano Village 4th of July Festival as they help keiki make things bubble, boil, & pop!
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Join us this summer as we explore the mountains, forests, ocean, and beaches of Hawaii Island.
Daily field trips get you outside in the field to learn and do science.
Science Camp is for teens 13 to 17. Registration opens January 10th.
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More 2016 Camp Photos on the
Science Camp Website
Hundreds of additional photographs from the
2016 Science Camps have been added to the Science Camp web site and may be viewed as a video or a slideshow, along with photos from previous years.
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Science campers measure the beach profile at Punalu'u Black Sand Beach.
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Enjoy, reminisce and share!
New photo albums for 2016:
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Help Send a Teen to Science Camp!
Contributions to the Scholarship Fund Needed
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More than two-thirds of the campers who attend Science Camp need financial aid to attend. Unfortunately, there are some students that we are unable to assist sufficiently to make it possible for them to come to camp.
Your donation of $5, $10 or more to the Science Camp Scholarship Fund can help make Science Camp possible for those kids who would otherwise never have a chance to participate in this amazing experience.
Please click here to make your tax-deductible contribution today.
Another way to help is through Amazon Smile. When you shop at Amazon, Amazon will make a donation to Science Camp!
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So Exactly How Geeky are the Science Camp Staff?
The answer is
really geeky. Here's a story that will show you just how geeky they are. This summer, after our field trip to the
Keck Observatory Headquarters in Waimea, the campers were outside on the grass playing frisbee.
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Frisbee on the lawn at
Keck Observatory HQ
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Most of the staff were still in the lobby of Keck HQ when
Andrea Ghez walked in.
Andrea Ghez is the brilliant astronomer who, among other things, discovered the black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy.
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Andrea Ghez at Keck Observatory
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We were star-struck (pun intended), to say the least. Astronomers don't often get to go home and tell their families they were treated like rockstars, but Ms. Gehz certainly was able to do so that day. It was really a thrill to meet her.
Yup, we've definitely got Science Geek cred now.
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