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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Science Alive STEM camp
 

Burnaby Programs

Select your program below. *Registration is organized by grade.

Grade 1

Grade 2/3

Grade 4/5

Grade 6/7/8

Week 1

June 29–July 3

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.

Week 2

July 6–10

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.

Week 3

July 13–17

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.

Week 4

July 20–24

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.

Week 5

July 27–31

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

Register

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: