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Summer 2027 · early booking open
Summer Camps
Five mornings, one theme, twelve campers. Rockets, robots, renewable energy or light and illusion, a full week of building, testing and taking it home.
- Mon-Fri, 9:30-12:30Three hours a morning, five days, the afternoon is still yours
- 12 campersThe smallest camp group in the area, deliberately
- Every week is differentDo all five and never repeat a project
- Nut-free spaceBring a nut-free snack and a water bottle
Summer 2027
The weeks
Dates go live each January. Deposits taken now are fully refundable until the schedule is confirmed and hold your child’s place at this year’s price.
Summer 2026 has finished
All seven weeks ran between 29 June and 7 August. The 2027 schedule follows the same shape and is published in January, join the list below and you hear before it goes public.
| Week | Theme | Time | Ages | Week price | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Late June | Light, Science, Art & IllusionsColour, reflection, refraction and why your eyes can be fooled | 9:30-12:30 | 6-11 | $395 | Hold a place |
| Mid July | LEGO Robotics & EngineeringSPIKE kits, motors, code and challenge-based builds | 9:30-12:30 | 6-11 | $395 | Hold a place |
| Late July | Invention & EngineeringHow real inventions work, then design and build your own | 9:30-12:30 | 6-11 | $395 | Hold a place |
| Late July | Space Science & EngineeringRocketry, solar-powered Mars rovers, designing a colony that survives | 9:30-12:30 | 6-11 | $395 | Hold a place |
| Early August | Renewable Energy & EngineeringSolar, wind and the conservation law, built into working models | 9:30-12:30 | 6-11 | $395 | Hold a place |
| Selected weeks | 3D Print CampAfternoon session for older students, design, slice, print, iterate | 2:00-4:00PM | 8-12 | $280-$350 | Hold a place |
Book 2 weeks
Save $40$750 for two weeks instead of $790.
Book 3+ weeks
Save $120$1,065 for three, the themes never repeat.
Second sibling
10% offApplied automatically at checkout on the same week.
Multi-week and sibling pricing is a proposal, not a current Exploratores offer. Last year 47% of camp revenue came from six weeks and orders averaged 1.19 items, bundling is where the obvious headroom is.
Inside a week
What the themes cover
Space Science & Engineering
Campers learn what makes space exploration possible and then do it in miniature: rocketry, solar-powered Mars rovers, and a collaborative design for a colony that has to solve the same problems real engineers face. Highest-selling week two years running.
LEGO Robotics & Engineering
Core robotics and engineering through LEGO SPIKE, building and coding creations that move, then challenge activities using motors, gears and Technic elements where the goal is set but the solution is not.
Invention & Engineering
Groundbreaking inventions, how they actually work, and the principles underneath. Campers build guided projects, then take an idea of their own into the makerspace and make it exist.
Light, Science, Art & Illusions
The science of light, colour and perception through experiments that are genuinely striking to look at. Reflection, refraction, and projects that sit between a physics demonstration and an art piece.
Renewable Energy & Engineering
Where energy comes from and the conservation law that governs it. Campers investigate solar and wind generation, then design, build and test their own working models in the makerspace.
3D Print Camp
An afternoon track for ages 8-12. Modelling, slicing, printing, and the design iteration that happens when the first attempt comes off the bed wrong. Shorter sessions, smaller group.
A camp morning
How the three hours run
Sign-in
Doors from 9:20. Name checked against the register, allergies and pick-up person confirmed.
Lesson
The day’s concept, taught properly: short, specific, and immediately useful for what comes next.
Build & experiment
The bulk of the morning. Their own project, tested, adjusted, tested again.
Makerspace & pick-up
Open tinkering and LEGO time, then wrap-up and collection at 12:30 with the day’s build in hand.
Be first on the 2027 list
Camp weeks sell out. Families on this list get the schedule and a booking link a week before it goes public, at the previous year’s price.
Practical
Camp questions
What is the cancellation policy?
Email us at least two weeks before the camp starts and 50% of the tuition is refunded. Inside two weeks, no refund is issued. Camps are non-transferable between children or weeks.
Is lunch or aftercare included?
Camps finish at 12:30 and there is no lunch provision. Bring a nut-free snack and a water bottle for the mid-morning break.
My child is 5, or 12.
The main weeks run 6-11 and the 3D Print track 8-12. If your child is just outside that, email us, it usually depends on whether they can work independently for a three-hour morning.
Can they do more than one week?
Yes, and many do. No two weeks share projects, so a child can do the whole summer without repeating anything.
Do you take Scout or school groups in the summer?
Yes, see Group Events for pricing, or Field Trips if you would rather we came to you.