Curriculum, facilitation guides, and pre-sorted upcycled materials for 2 to 40 students. Unbox it and teach. No prep, no sourcing.
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It fits the schedule, the staffing and the standards you already work to.
Drops into a daily rotation. Meets ELO-P, LEAPS and ACE duration and ratio rules.
Fifteen or thirty hours of showcase-ready projects.
Volume pricing, one curriculum across every site.
No STEM background needed to facilitate.
Full lesson plans mapped to NGSS and Common Core, with rubrics.
Zero prior STEAM expertise needed. Pacing, prompts, differentiation.
Bagged and labeled per student, plus a printed workbook each.
Social-emotional and narrative work inside every engineering challenge.
Three themes are ready to run today, five more are in development, and another five arrive in 2026. Each is a complete 15 or 30-hour program with its own materials and guide.
Launch rockets, explore the solar system, and master gravity as aerospace engineers. Key skills: Trajectory Physics (Math) & Mission-Control Teamwork (SEL).
Explore bio-diversity and habitat engineering. Students discover the interconnection of living systems through hands-on modeling and field investigation.
Think like a master toymaker to build interactive mechanical automata and study principles of motion. Key skills: Geometric Modeling (Math) & Iterative Prototyping (SEL).
Use scientific analysis and investigative logic to crack hypothetical cases. Key skills: Evidence-based Reporting (Literacy) & Critical Thinking (SEL).
Blend mechanical engineering with playwriting to bring characters to life through moving puppets and performance. Key skills: Proportional Mechanics (Math) & Scriptwriting (Literacy).
Engineer solutions for eco-issues and advocate for a greener planet through sustainable design. Key skills: Data & Stats (Math) & Community Leadership (SEL).
Invention-based engineering and tool creation. Students become product designers, iterating through prototypes to create functional, original gadgets.
Master the Hero’s Journey and Story Circle scaffolds to complete full narrative arcs. Key skills: Creative Writing (Literacy) & Self-Discovery (SEL).
Thirty years of hands-on pedagogy, upcycled materials and standards-aligned curriculum, in one box.
Industrial surplus, not pre-cut kit parts. Students engineer instead of assembling.
Pre-sorted materials, printed journals and facilitation guides. No lesson planning.
Every activity maps to standards a district can point to.
Refined with real students at our own camp before it ships.
The same design cycle real innovators use, scaled to each grade band.
Ask questions, observe, build simple models. Trying again is how every inventor starts.
Define the problem, test the options, then decide with evidence instead of guesses.
Multi-step challenges, data-driven revision, then presenting the solution to peers.
Measurement, proportion and geometry inside a real build.
Story Circle scaffolds turn the build into writing.
Productive struggle, collaboration and iteration.
Fundable through Title I & IV, 21st Century CCLC, ESSER, CA ELO-P/ASES, NY LEAPS, and TX ACE. Ask for alignment docs. Larger or multi-site orders are quoted directly.
Camp in a Box is the distillation of the Bay Area’s STEAM Dream Camp, the live lab where real students test every activity before it ships.
Diverted from landfill every year by the nonprofit behind the box.
Eight themes, fifteen or thirty hours, two to forty students.
Materials pre-sorted, journals and guides included. No planning, no sourcing.
Students ask, plan, prototype and iterate from the first session.
Orders ship in 5–10 business days. District proposals in 3–5.
