Supercharged Science Camp

Supercharged Science Camp is a live, 5-day science camp where kids construct stunt planes, hang gliders, bat kites, rotor kites, pneumatic rockets, and chemical pop rockets, wire up circuits, motors, lights, and switches, and build homemade burglar alarms such as trip wires, stomp sensors, tilt sensors, magnetic reed switches, and an electric eye. Campers spin laser beams, build laser light shows, split light waves into rainbow shadows, construct catapults, zoom around their own roller coaster track they get to take home, cross-link polymers, create substances that crawl upstairs, experiment with phase shifts, shake up solutions that change into a rainbow of colors, turn coffee back into clear water, grow colorful crystals, stew up a chemical matrix of heat and ice reactions, and discover how to make hot icicles and supercooled liquids. They also take an intergalactic tour of the universe without leaving their seat to discover massive black holes, spinning neutron stars, quasars, blazars, magnetars, and supernovae, view solar flares, learn why the sun regularly burps and spits fireballs into space, learn how stars form and why they explode, learn how far away the nearest neighbor is in the galaxy, and build and troubleshoot robots such as mechanized animal robots, waterbots, jigglebots, race cars, and zooming, hopping, swimming, wheeling, and dancing robots, and one lucky camper gets their first flight lesson in a real airplane.

• Ages: 7–12 years old
• Schedule: Summer Science Camp: August 3–7, 2026; a live, 5-day science camp
• Price: Science Camp costs 4 monthly payments of $175 each (includes $100 materials fee), or full payment of $697 per child; additional materials cost for the Saturday Marine Biology Underwater Robot Parent-Kid Workshop is $247 + $80 material fee.

The program includes a BONUS Saturday Marine Biology Underwater Robot Parent-Kid Workshop for current camp participants ages 10 and up, where families explore ocean volcanoes, deep sea creatures, and underwater robots and build a 3-axis remote controlled underwater robot to take home. Kids keep everything they build and invent during the workshop, including 40 science projects, activities, and experiments with materials worth over $100. The program is very hands-on, so kids are doing real science projects rather than reading lessons from a book.

Science Camp is taught by real scientists and engineers, including a mechanical engineer, airplane pilot, astronomer, university engineering instructor, and rocket scientist, along with science teachers, university engineering students, and other science professionals. Supercharged Science Camp is led by Aurora Lipper, a mechanical engineer, university instructor, pilot, astronomer, and busy mom of four, who has taught science classes and workshops to over ten thousand kids since 1999. Aurora Lipper started teaching Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly State University at age 21, worked for NASA at age 17, and holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics and specialized study in High Temperature Gas Dynamics during her PhD work at Stanford. Supercharged Science states that it provides science and math education for kids worldwide and that it is the only homeschool science and math curriculum taught by a real rocket scientist and team of engineers.

Supercharged Science’s mission is to ignite curiosity and help kids develop the tools and confidence they need to explore and be successful in their world. The program has received recognition including being named one of the Top 100 Sites for Homeschoolers by Homeschool.com, receiving a Blue Ribbon Award from Old Schoolhouse Magazine, and being selected as a Top 101 Pick from Cathy Duffy. Special bonuses are offered for the first five families who sign up, including a private welcome dinner with Aurora, a free science experiment manual PDF, a bonus science activity DVD, online e-Camp enrollment for the whole summer at the K–12 level, and a private liquid nitrogen ice cream social.

Parent feedback includes comments such as kids having a “wonderful week making gadgets, mixing goo, playing with lasers and walking on water,” and that Aurora “inspired them to try, tinker and think,” as shared by Viviane M. from Santa Barbara, California. Another parent, Jan Soto from San Luis Obispo, reports that the camp “totally got [their son] fired up to build, connect, explode, invent, test, create, discover, question… and in a nutshell, get wildly excited about how our physical world behaves through experimentation.”

Last updated April 5, 2026.