Embark on a Summer Science Adventure at Discovery Place Camps

Registration opens for camps offered at locations across Charlotte Metro area

March 09, 2011

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Did you ever want to be an undercover agent? Or an amusement park designer? Or a creative scientist who explores weird, wacky things that fizz, bubble and pop? Registration for Discovery Place summer camps is now open, offering an extensive variety of camps for kids from pre-school through rising 8th grade. Campers can participate in new science-based adventures each day at locations across the Charlotte Metro area that balance structured, content-based activities with hands-on fun.

Highlights include Motorsports Mania, a camp that explores the physics of racing through the design and testing of a Pinewood Derby car and Bio Bonanza, an opportunity to interact with Discovery Place’s animal residents while exploring the world’s plants and animals. Dive into Outdoor Adventures: H20 and hit the road to experience water adventures while learning about how water is processed and where it comes from. Summer Science Institute is a one-of-a-kind camp for rising 2nd and 3rd graders that takes participants behind-the-scenes of Discovery Place, where they can dissect a frog, design a model house, culture bacteria from their own body and more.

Discovery Place 2011 summer camps are offered at Discovery Place in uptown Charlotte and at locations throughout the metro area including Carolinas Aviation Museum, Lake Norman Charter School, Earp-Williams Post #4059 of the VFW building in Mint Hill and The Hut Meeting Facility in Pineville, making it easy to find a science adventure just around the corner from home. A full list of camps, dates, times, locations and grade levels is available at discoveryplace.org/education.

Summer camp listings and registration can also be found online for Charlotte Nature Museum at charlottenaturemuseum.org/education and for Discovery Place KIDS at discoveryplaceKIDS.org/education.

About Discovery Place
One of the top hands-on science museums in the nation, Discovery Place provides ever-changing, entertaining facilities that engage the public in the active exploration of science and nature. More than a half-million people from all over the United States visit Discovery Place, its IMAX Dome Theatre and Charlotte Nature Museum each year. In June 2010, the Museum completed an 18-month, $31.6 million renovation, resulting in a completely transformed and re-imagined Museum with all-new interactive exhibits. Discovery Place KIDS, a community-based children’s museum for children from birth through age 7, opened its first location in Huntersville in October, 2010.

Discovery Place is located in uptown Charlotte at 301 N. Tryon Street. Convenient parking is available in the Museum’s parking deck – the Carol Grotnes Belk Complex – at the corner of Sixth and Church Streets. For more information about Discovery Place, call (704)372-6261 or visit discoveryplace.org. Discovery Place is supported, in part, with a Basic Operating Grant from the Arts & Sciences Council.


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