Camps

Invisible World! will open your child’s eyes to the worlds of living things that cannot be seen. From bacteria to viruses, fruit to tabletops, this camp will investigate the micro worlds within our world, and ourselves, allowing us to see invisible lifeforms. Cheek scrapings of saliva will help us to work out who we are. Through observation of growth, metabolism, and chemical exchanges in vortexes, we question what life is. The micro world is brought to life, chromosomes and DNA are made visible. Our invisible worlds and the ecosystems they are a part of are brought into plain sight. Fuelled by questions such as: What is life? Are things always what they look like? What is the point of diversity? this camp is for any child that wants to see more of the world that they are a part of. 

Imagineering!  will engage your child’s curiosity and imagination through play. Campers will engage in a diverse list of inspiring, hands-on and captivating activities. Play an ‘In-Real-Life’ version of Minecraft; experience the value of free-flow play (think: Calvin and Hobbes’ Calvin Ball); create in the Magical world of wizardry, Harry Potter style; and build junkyard playgrounds that will exercise their creative juices!  In addition to these great activities, campers will be challenged with important questions such as “Is Pokémon a pet?”, “Can we make believe anything?”, and “Could magic be real?”. This camp caters to the very active child who loves to build and explore the world with their imagination. 

Thinking Things! will blow your young person’s mind! Through thought fuelled activities, we will take a deep dive into thinking about thinking. We will perform crazy sciencesque experiments to work out what it is to have a mind and what is our relationship to other thinking things. We will start out with human minds and consciousness, then move on to animals, plants, and artificial intelligence, and ending on how we should treat other minds. The camp will explore answers to some very BIG questions: What is it to have a mind? Are fungi networks kinds of neural networks? Are computers an extension of our minds? Who ARE the thinking things?

Food for Thought! connects children to their food in meaningful ways, helping them to begin exploring our complex relationships with food. From new foods to hunger to production to preparation to serving to palate refinement to health to garbage, campers will be consumed by activities that spark an interest in something we so often take for granted. Who says you can’t play with your food? Build healthy and thoughtful relationships with food as you work with professional chefs, plant your own garden, learn cooking techniques, make a solar oven, become an expert food critic, and more! All diets are welcome in this tasty and creative camp that combines thinking about food with lots of fun physical activity.

Role-Playing Game On! is Eurekamp’s newest program. Extending the much loved Game On! format into the land of Role-Playing Games, this camp will offer a fun chance to explore interesting moral situations through controlled play environments, with a focus on communication skills, teamwork, storytelling, and strategy. After creating a character, our young heroes will embark on funny and intriguing one-shot quests designed to draw out complex moral issues and stimulate conversations around fairness, the role of art and play, the construction of narrative, the separation of themselves and their avatars, design, and so much more!