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 and four more are coming soon. 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).
Students bring characters to life as they build unique puppets with moving parts and lots of expression in this intensive creative writing and engineering experience that is sure to unlock their storytelling skills.
Students work their way through the story circle created by Dan Harmon, a modern version of the “hero’s journey” model. Students are challenged daily and complete full stories by the end of camp. Writing stories is a huge creative task, so this camp includes many storytelling scaffolds that help students be successful on their storytelling journey.
Students engage in several hands-on explorations to gain a deeper understanding of the environment in which aquanauts work, the importance of aquatic research, and the equipment used. Students apply their learning as they collaboratively design and build models of unique underwater habitats (sealabs) for aquanauts to conduct their work.
Students engage in activities that teach environmental principles and concepts affecting Earth’s systems and promote advocacy towards responsible uses of natural resources. They collaboratively design, build, and test solutions for solving current issues in the local environment and develop action plans to bring their solutions to market.
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.
Seven 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.
