Club SciKidz Oakdale

Destination Science runs hands-on STEM summer day camps for kids ages 5 to 11 at six Long Island sites: Adelphi University in Garden City, Church of Our Savior Lutheran in Manhasset, Trinity Lutheran School in Hicksville, Long Island School for the Gifted in Syosset, C3 Church Long Island in Greenlawn and Setauket Presbyterian Church. Campers sign up for one to four weeks, and each week has a theme, such as Movie Maker STEM Lab, Robot Olympic Challenge or Jedi Engineering. A camp day has three 70-minute science stations, two outside action stations and a camp rally. Extended care is offered at Garden City, Hicksville and Setauket.

The High School Summer Maker Academy is a one-week technology, engineering and design program from New York Institute of Technology's College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, for students entering grades 9 to 12. Sessions run Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM, on NYIT's Long Island campus in Old Westbury, and students build a project, such as a disaster response vehicle or a smart greenhouse with monitoring and controls, which they present on the final Friday. Experience with 3-D printing, laser cutting, robotics or programming is not required. Each session takes up to 20 students by application, and transportation is not provided.

Summer Adventure Days are the Long Island Aquarium's summer programs in Riverhead, sorted by age from 2-year-olds, who come with a parent, to teens 14 to 16. The youngest groups meet for a few mornings, and the programs for ages 6 and up run for a week, Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM, in July and August. Campers feed the stingrays, snorkel with rays and tropical fish in the Shark Reef Lagoon and ride the Atlantis Explorer tour boat on the Peconic River; older groups watch a shark dissection and kayak down the river. Aquarium members save 10%.

Club SciKidz Central Long Island runs weekly science and technology day camps at Lutheran Trinity School, 40 West Nicholai Street in Hicksville, for ages 4 to 15. Each week offers themed camps for three age groups (4 to 6, 7 to 10 and 10 to 15), such as LEGO, AI and chatbots, drone building, DNA science, emergency vet and space exploration. Camp runs Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm, with pre-camp from 8am ($35 a week) and post-camp until 5:30pm ($45 a week). Pre-K and kindergarten campers can come for a half day, 9am to 1pm. The same camp also runs at B'nai Israel Reform Temple in Oakdale.