Scholarship Information
application for Day Camps
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Camp Cancellations
There is a $25 cancellation fee for one-week camps and a $50 cancellation fee for two-week camps. LHS can give you a refund, less the cancellation fee, if we receive your request at least two weeks before the first day of camp. LHS will consider refunds for cancellations less than two weeks before the start date if a replacement camper from the waiting list is available.
Supervised Option Cancellations
There is a $15 cancellation fee. LHS can give you a refund, less the cancellation fee, if we receive your request at least one week before the first day of camp.
Supervised Lunch & Pick Up Program
Summer 2008 Day Camps Grades 6-9
June 16–August 22
LHS Members Registration:
February 23 (Saturday): online registration starts 9:00 a.m.
February 25 (Monday): in person, mail/fax, phone
General Public Registration:
February 29 (Friday)
Adapt or Die Camp
How did animals and plants on Earth get to be the way they are? Travel back in time to see how plant and animal life changed, and observe how animals today are adapted to their environment. In this fun-filled camp we’ll dive into evolution with live animals, games, and computer simulations.
Entering Grades 4–6
August 4–8
(five meetings)
Monday–Friday
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$200 ($169 for LHS members)
Geology Camp
Get to know the Earth, from its tiny rock crystals to its massive and changing crust. Create and explore models that illustrate the physical processes responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, and the formation of three different types of rock making up our Earth’s crust. Step into the shoes of a geologist in our cookie mine and mock archeological excavation.
Entering Grades 4–6
July 28–August 1
(five meetings)
Monday–Friday
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$200 ($169 for LHS members)
Electric Gadgetry
Whether your camper is a future engineer or a curious tinkerer, this camp lets them get their hands and minds working with a variety of electronic experiments and projects. Campers explore the relationship between electricity and magnetism by building motors, speakers, and even a simple radio. They also use their creativity and their newfound knowledge to design and build their own electronic creation.
Entering Grades 5–7
August 11–22
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
Lego Technology Camp
It’s alive! Bring out the Dr. Frankenstein in your child with Lego Technology! Students build humanoid robots, roving vehicles, and mechanical beasties of increasing complexity. Then they learn how to program their ’droids to walk, talk, and even see! And it’s all done with Mindstorms NXT, the cutting-edge robotics kit just released by Lego. Take your child’s creativity to the next level with Lego Technology!
Entering Grades 5–7
July 14–25
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
Entering Grades 5–7
July 28–August 8
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
Web Weavers Camp
Websites are a way for students to express themselves through creative writing and design. Making a website is a great introduction to the world of computer scripting and programming. In Web Weavers, campers will use computer languages like HTML and CSS to create stylized text and hyperlinks; as well as posting artwork, images, and animations that highlight one of their many interests. The whole family will be able to view your child’s online masterpiece from home. And your child will learn a skill that will prove very useful in this web-wired world.
Entering Grades 5–7
July 14–25
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
Entering Grades 6–9 cancelled
June 16–27
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
Entering Grades 6–9
August 11–22
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
For the Love of Animals Camp
Discover your love of animals. This camp offers hands-on experiences in feeding, grooming, handling, and caring for a variety of our Biology Lab animals while exploring their behavior, adaptations, and habitat needs. Activities include comparing the habitat requirements of snakes, lizards, and different kinds of mammals; and designing the best indoor habitat for each.
Entering Grades 6–8
July 7–11
(five meetings)
Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$200 ($169 for LHS members)
Entering Grades 6–8
August 4–8
(five meetings)
Monday–Friday
9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$200 ($169 for LHS members)
Food and Plant Chemistry Camp
What makes pancakes fluffy or flat? What gives flowers their color and odor? It’s all in the chemistry! Discover how the combination of chemicals, time, temperature, and physical manipulation can affect food experiments (some of which may even be edible). Experiment with plants used as foods and turned into other strange and useful products. See how people throughout history have used chemistry in their food and medicine, and continue the experiments at home.
Entering Grades 6–9
June 16–27
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
Roller Coasters to Rockets Camp
What makes things go or stop? Fly or fall? Campers will learn the concepts of energy, force, and motion; and experiment with using different forces to make things go. After experimenting they will apply their knowledge by building gadgets such as roller coasters, rockets, trebuchets (rock hurlers), and other projectile-launching devices.
Entering Grades 6–9
June 30–July 11
(nine meetings)
Monday–Friday
(No meeting on Friday, July 4.)
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$352 ($298 for LHS members)
Entering Grades 6–9
July 14–25
(ten meetings)
Monday–Friday
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Enrollment: 8–16 campers
$390 ($330 for LHS members)
