Sensational Science

Go on a “sense”sational adventure! Children will explore their senses and more in this exciting series of classes. Your Mad Scientists will explore the properties of light and color, examine curious optical illusions and analyze the amazing properties of sound! They will harness heat energy, experiment with magnets and learn all about the animal kingdom. […]

Thursday, Jan 23 - Thursday, Mar 27

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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Flight Academy

Discover how things move with science; take apart pellets to see what an owl cannot digest! Join a team of camper-engineers and build bridges, domes, cubes and pyramids. Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults and simple machines. Make your own sidewalk chalk, crystal gardens and chromatography-dyed t-shirt. Instructor: Mad Science. 6-10 years 4 lessons @ […]

Monday - Friday, Jun 16 - 20

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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Eureka! The Inventors Camp

Children will overcome a series of challenges using basic materials, simple machines, tips from famous inventors and most important of all—their minds. With a little bit of ingenuity, children will create catapults and forts, construct light sticks to take home and assemble a set of circuits with batteries and light bulbs. While Thomas Edison said, […]

Monday - Friday, Jun 23 - 27

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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Crazy Chemworks

Shake up a flask of fun in the lab and become a junior chemist! Learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results. Check out the colors of chemistry with the power of PH paper and create stopper-popping reactions. Probe the properties of light and discover some unusual […]

Monday, Jun 30 - Thursday, Jul 3

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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Secret Agent Lab

Suspects! Schematics and Sleuths! Connect the dots using science to help solve a crime in this hands-on investigation of the science of sleuthing. Uncover the science involved in evidence gathering, analysis and fingerprinting detection. Enhance your recall and observation skills and learn how to use spy equipment. Instructor: Mad Science. 6-10 years 5 lessons @ […]

Monday - Friday, Jul 7 - 11

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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Science In Motion

Discover how things move in science. Take apart pellets to see what an owl cannot digest. Join a team of camper-engineers and build bridges, domes, cubes and pyramids. Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults and simple machines. Make your own sidewalk chalk, crystal gardens and chromatography dyed t-shirt. Instructor: Mad Science. 6-10 years 5 lessons […]

Monday - Friday, Jul 14 - 18

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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Dinosaurs & Ancients Worlds

Dig up dinosaurs and the ancient past! Solve real life mysteries. Kids learn about archeology and the techniques scientists use to excavate fossils and long lost cities. They study bone fragments, pottery shards, amber deposits and fossils to understand what they can tell us about history. What’s more, each class includes a make-and take-home project, […]

Monday - Friday, Jul 21 - 25

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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NASA Academy of Future Space Explorers

Blast off with the only camp designed and created specifically by NASA engineers! Set your future space explorer on a trajectory from our earth’s atmosphere to the outer reached of our solar system. This hands-on program will bring children closer to the stars, planets, comets and more. Learn about living in space, getting away from […]

Monday, Jul 28 - Friday, Aug 1

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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Red Hot Robots

Join Mad Science and our radical robots for scientific journey through circuity and sensors. Explore several different types of robots…robots that follow lines, sounds and robotic arms like the ones you see in the big factories on TV (well, smaller than that but you get the picture). You will even play tag with robots that […]

Monday - Friday, Aug 4 - 8

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101

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