STEM Summer Camps at SFU
Program 9:00am–3:30pm
Prices from $322
Before Care 7:45am–9:00am
Additional $15/day
After Care 3:30pm–5:00pm
Additional $15/day
Hosted by Science Alive, our Summer Academy explores the fascinating world of science, engineering and technology through hands-on activities in both Surrey and Burnaby campuses!
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Burnaby
Surrey
Burnaby Programs
Select your program below. *Registration is organized by grade.
Grade 1
Grade 2/3
Grade 4/5
Grade 6/7/8
STEAM Studio
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Explore the world of STEAM through hands-on projects, creative challenges, and playful experiments that spark curiosity across science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
Nautical Navigators
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Explore the science and history of life on the ocean through hands-on boat-building, seaworthy challenges, and creative activities inspired by real explorers and pirates of the past.
Analytical Athletes
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Blend the excitement of sports with the power of coding through hands-on challenges and sports-themed investigations that uncover patterns, trends, and performance.
Model Makers Lab
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Explore engineering and architecture through hands-on model building, experimenting with shapes, structures, and design techniques while creating small-scale versions of big ideas.
Ocean Explorers
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Explore the wonders of the ocean through hands-on activities, creative challenges, and marine-themed investigations that bring the deep blue to life.
Flight of Passage
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Explore the science of flight through hands-on builds, sky-high challenges, and creative investigations into lift, drag, gliders, and jets.
Myth-stery Busters
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Investigate popular myths, design experiments, and uncover the truth behind everyday questions through hands-on testing and scientific reasoning.
Code for Change
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Master front-end coding with HTML and CSS while designing a professional website for a cause you care about, with a focus on visual design and user experience.
Mini Med
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Explore the amazing world inside your body through playful experiments, creative challenges, and doctor-in-training activities that turn health mysteries into hands-on fun.
Brick Builders Lab
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Build, code, and invent using LEGO Spike Prime kits and drag-and-drop coding while learning simple machines, foundational physics, and engineering principles.
Digital Defenders
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Dive into game creation by designing superheroes and building playable games through coding, creativity, and the full game design process.
The (Board) Game Makers Lab
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Explore mechanics, probability, storytelling, and player experience while prototyping, playtesting, and refining your own original board game.
Elite Engineers
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Explore engineering through playful challenges, creative building projects, and teamwork-driven problem-solving that make designing and testing feel like an adventure.
Space Invaders
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Blast off into the cosmos through hands-on experiments, creative investigations, and cosmic-themed challenges exploring planets, stars, galaxies, and space exploration.
Junior Vet Academy
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Explore veterinary science through animal biology investigations, hands-on activities, and creative challenges about how creatures survive and thrive.
Wattson’s Wonderland
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Design, build, and pitch a tech gadget using Arduino and C/C++ programming while learning sensors, alarms, data displays, product design, and coding logic.
STEAM Studio
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Explore the world of STEAM through hands-on projects, creative challenges, and playful experiments that spark curiosity across science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
Nautical Navigators
Register
Explore the science and history of life on the ocean through hands-on boat-building, seaworthy challenges, and creative activities inspired by real explorers and pirates of the past.
Analytical Athletes
Register
Blend the excitement of sports with the power of coding through hands-on challenges and sports-themed investigations that uncover patterns, trends, and performance.
Model Makers Lab
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Explore engineering and architecture through hands-on model building, experimenting with shapes, structures, and design techniques while creating small-scale versions of big ideas.
About Science Alive
Science AL!VE engages youth in hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & design, Mathematics) programs to build measurable skills and improve self-confidence.
We aim to break stereotypes in science and engineering by empowering underrepresented groups through inclusive, barrier-free STEAM programs for girls, underserved youth, and Indigenous communities.
Bursaries
Science Alive is a non-profit organisation and we aim to provide inclusive programs with life-changing learning experiences for kids from any background. If program cost is a financial barrier for you, apply for a bursary below:
Newsletter
Our monthly newsletter lists our current free and paid youth programs in a community near you as well as teacher professional development opportunities and resources.
Subscribe to the Science AL!VE Outreach Programs Newsletter below: