ISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools Community Education

Have a blast using LEGO® Technics engineering kits to explore the world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in a team-based environment. Each day you will explore new engineering principles, such as gears, wheels, levers, and pulleys. Working in pairs, you will build working theme park rides and machines that reinforce concepts learned. After each building project, you will customize, share, compete in challenges, and enjoy experimenting with your creations.

If you are looking for the most thrilling, out of this world adventure this summer, then this camp is totally for you! Imagine your mission is stuck on a newly explored planet and you now need to figure out how to return to Earth! Your path back leads you to solve fun clues and STEAM challenges. Build a rower, design an extension arm, create a light up constellation map, and ultimately, once you collected all clues, launch your own rocket! While fun clues need to be solved, please note that this is not a Mall-like Escape Room Experience.

This energetic and fun-filled week of camp includes indoor and outdoor games. Participate in a mix of team & individual games that include cooperation, teamwork, and challenges! You will play classic board games, card games, relays, games with four bases. Get ready for an afternoon of laughter, fun, teamwork, and some friendly competition.

Back by popular demand! Join us at this glitz and glam camp and make your own Fizzy Bath Bombs, Shimmering Lip Balm, Soaps, Shower Dough, Glam Goo, Exfoliating Salt Scrub, and many more fun science experiments! Science meets glam, you and your besties will have a blast concocting all types of beauty and bath products and more while you learn the science behind them all. Add a pinch of imagination as you create super cool packages and more to take home your very personal creations.

Dive into the world of Harry Potter in this fun and creative camp! Draw your very own Harry Potter holding Hedwig in colored pencil on tan-toned paper. Then, be swept into Hagrid’s hut to create your own baby dragon, Norbert, in colored pencil on gray-toned paper. Lastly, draw free elf, Dobby, in colored pencil on tan-toned paper — all while listening to Harry Potter on audiobook!

Roll up your sleeves and join in the fun as you explore who and what lives in the garden! You will learn about different kinds of flowers, plants and insects. Activities will include, painting our own garden, creating our own bug and planting real bean seeds.

Smash! Crash! BOOM! Come to this camp and enjoy building and breaking! You will use the Engineering Design Process to create a wrecking ball, a catapult, construct safety mechanisms to protect a raw egg from impact and more! Put on your hard hats and safety goggles and join the fun!

Come along on this summer camping adventure and learn everything you need to know to explore the outdoors. Our week will start by making lists of what to bring, set up camp, prepare camp meals, learn how to build a fire, tell campfire stories, sing popular campfire songs, create camp themed crafts, and more. This will be a wild week of fun. Bring a sleeping bag & pillow.

We will write code to summon the ender dragon, learn to use Redstone, and command blocks to make automated machines in Minecraft: Java Edition. Basic computer skills are needed (this includes good keyboard and mouse skills). No prior coding experience is necessary. Minecraft playing experience would be helpful.

Unleash your creative energy! This is the perfect camp to hone both your artistic side and your puzzle-solving skills. Just like on the popular TV show Nailed It!, we’ll show you a final product and give you all the goods needed to recreate it. The rest is up to you! Your challenges will include creating a unicorn cake sculpture that looks good enough to eat, painting a fox at sunset, a llama with a flower crown, and so much more. We can’t wait to see if you can nail it! This is Nailed It!, Kidcreate-style, so instead of baking, you’ll be sculpting, painting, collaging, and more.

Build a dragster, a spy robot, and a moon rover. Then program the dragster to race, the rover to roam, and the spy bot to...well, spy. {YEL!}’s Teach It! Practice It! Play It!® classroom method emphasizes 21st Century Learning skills like STEM, teamwork, and problem solving. Sign up today! LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site or program.

This fun, skill-intensive program is designed for beginning to intermediate players. An active week of passing, shooting, dribbling, and rebounding makes this one of our most popular camps. Wear athletic clothing and shoes.

This flag football, basketball, and soccer camp will give you a fun and positive first step into athletics. Through games and activities, you will explore balance, hand/eye coordination, and skill development at your own pace. Skyhawks will provide all necessary equipment for the program. Wear athletic clothing and shoes.

Do you have a favorite color? Do you love rainbows? Join us as we discover the world of color. We will learn about primary and secondary colors by mixing paint, create our own rainbows, and lots of color songs, books and games. Come to camp and brighten your world!

You will discover all the amazing things we find in the sea and ocean. Go under the sea with fun ocean themed activities and crafts. You will dive deep into art and make octopus mobiles, underwater views, create whale friends and explore water and shells, and create an ocean snack.