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Summer Blast! |
 Rising 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades
* Field trip expected ** Guest Speaker Expected *** Field trip and guest speaker expected Click Here for Instructions to Online RegistrationJune 2 - 6Junior Einsteins
June 9-13Extraterrestrial TerrestrialsEver thought that Earthlings could be Click here to register: 08SEUSB01010 June 16-20Zine-th
June 23-27
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Explode them to space with what you learn in this camp! Build a really cool rocket while you learn basic scientific method, Newton’s Laws and the facts about force and motion. Construct and launch your own rocket, investigate the pioneer’s efforts in aeronautics, and maybe create something that will make you this century’s smarty pants!
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extraterrestrials? Probe information gathered by NASA’s finest and robots to determine what it would take to maintain life on the red planet. Build your own mars rover and create your very own survival space suit. You might even carry home the answer to the question, “is there life on other planets?”
Reached the pinnacle of storing physical pictures? Have news to tell? Take it to the web! Well known newspapers and magazines do it! Nurture skills in the basics of web design while you put together your own online magazine. Customize a magazine title, use graphics to make ads, put together articles, make a hard copy layout, and publish your own magazine online. Don’t be left in the hard-back ages!
Take a week’s vacation in the world of Sponge Bob Square Pants without ever leaving dry land. Uncover the secrets of the ocean by studying the sponges, plants, sea life, and trait’s of the waves. Plunge feet first into oceanic knowledge through tidal waves, simulating a tsunami, and dissecting an ocean creature. 
Use your skull to dig up clues on the case. This session of Krime Scene Investigation is all about Forensic Anthropology. Examine the remains of human bone replicas, animal bones, and entomology (bugs). Then reconstruct a face from a skull to solve the crime. Friday, you will piece together your skills and a mock crime scene’s evidence to earn your badge. Take home new crime solving skills, a crime scene journal, and an evidence grab bag.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…hey it really is a plane. This week’s camp will teach you why the rest of Georgia is celebrating a 100 years of flight. The secret the bird’s and pilots have known for years, will be revealed to you through the building of gliders, helicopters, and hot air balloons. Take your wings home at the end of the week.
The public has a right to know what goes on at SummerBlast! camp! Videotape, direct, and produce a piece for your time slot on SBN. Group members take turns being the anchors, cameramen, field anchors, and meteorologists. Interviews, field work, and sports casting will provide campers with the film individuals need to cut and edit the entire show (full with captions and credits). On Friday, the parents are invited to watch the finished products.