Day Camp Builds High-Tech Science Facility

Park Shore Country Day Camp and School, a Dix Hills day camp for kids, built a high-tech STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) facility to help children in the science day camp better understand the fundamentals of science.
 

After adding a science academy to its camp program two years ago, Park Shore Country Day Camp and School in Dix Hills built a high-tech facility for campers to learn about science. The new center will be open for camp this summer.

The STEAM Science Center, which adds art to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, will have touchscreen televisions, Einstein tablets, and wireless Internet throughout the entire building. Two 300-gallon aquariums will be housed in the basement as well as a marine touch tank that allows campers to touch different ocean animals.

Park Shore co-owner Bob Budah says the facility was built to help children in the Science Academy camp better understand the fundamentals of science through a robotics course, science experiments, and playing with live reptiles. “We want to excite children into the importance of science,” he says. “Children will be engaged the second they walk into the room.”

The Science Academy camp runs in two-, four-, six-, and eight-week sessions, five days a week in full- or half-day schedules (9-4 and 9-12 respectively.) In the morning, all campers work solely on science skills such as earth science, biology, and robotics, and full-day campers play sports and do arts and crafts in the afternoon.

The preschool, kindergarten, and after-school programs use the STEAM Science Center as well.

The camp's administrative hours are Monday-Friday, 10am-3pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 12pm-3pm.

Above photo: Campers at Park Shore Country Day Camp and School built a boat and tested it out in the camp’s pool.