California Science Camp

California Science Camp is a week-long program where kids work on robotics, engineering, aeronautics, rocketry, electricity, magnetism, light, lasers, physics, and sound. Participants construct stunt planes, hang gliders, bat kites, rotor kites, pneumatic rockets, chemical pop rockets, catapults, and a roller coaster track they take home, and they also investigate sonic vibrations and resonance. The program includes wiring up circuits, motors, lights, and switches; constructing homemade burglar alarms such as trip wires, stomp sensors, tilt sensors, magnetic reed switches, and an electric eye; building a DC electric motor using a galvanometer and magnets; scattering laser beams; building laser light shows; and splitting light waves into rainbow shadows. Campers also cross-link polymers to bubble up a slimy substance, create a substance that crawls up stairs, experiment with phase shifts, shake up solutions that change into a rainbow of colors, turn coffee back into clear water, grow colorful crystals, chemically collapse foam, start fire with a single drop of water, stew up a chemical matrix of heat and ice reactions, make hot icicles, and make supercooled liquids. Robotics projects include building a frame (chassis), adding motors, sensors, and wired remote controls, troubleshooting, constructing a mechanized animal robot, and building a waterbot, jigglebot, race car, and various zooming, hopping, swimming, wheeling, and dancing robots.

• Ages: 7–12 years old
• Schedule: August 3–7, Monday through Friday
• Price: $697 $497 FOR THE COMPLETE PROGRAM! Or 4 payments of $137

California Science Camp runs August 3–7 (Monday–Friday) from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM Pacific. The program includes stargazing on Wednesday night, weather permitting. Gold team members design and build a robot in-person for the 2026–27 VEX IQ challenge, receive personal lessons after each day of camp, and have all pieces provided for robot building, working in teams of two or three. The program is described as very hands-on and focused on real science like real scientists do in the lab, and the classes are described as exceeding state and national standards and STEM requirements while being totally hands-on.

California Science Camp is led by Aurora Lipper. Aurora Lipper is a mechanical engineer, university instructor, pilot, astronomer, and mother of four who started teaching Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly State University at age 21 and worked for NASA at age 17. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics and completed specialized study in High Temperature Gas Dynamics during her PhD work at Stanford. Aurora Lipper has taught science classes and workshops to over ten thousand kids since 1999. Supercharged Science states that its mission is to ignite curiosity and help kids develop the tools and confidence they need to explore and be successful in their world. Supercharged Science’s online school has received awards including Top 100 Sites for Homeschoolers by Homeschool.com, a Blue Ribbon Award by Old Schoolhouse Magazine, and a Top 101 Pick from Cathy Duffy, and it is described as the only homeschool science and math curriculum taught by a real rocket scientist and team of engineers.

Last updated July 5, 2026.