Awaken
Our summer STEAM camp provides the highest quality instruction through engaging and thought-provoking classes designed to build essential skills and mindset. Tip-Top Brain is bringing summer camp back to life!
The Genius
Prevent summer brain drain!
Keep your child engaged and practicing essential skills throughout the summer
Interdisciplinary curricula
Reading, writing, math, and STEAM all together! Teaching these disciplines in tandem helps students make deeper and more impactful connections.
Highly qualified and engaging instructors
You can be assured that your child's instructors this summer are experts in their fields, with a genuine passion to pass their knowledge along in fun and creative ways.
Early drop-off and late pick-up available
For your convenience, early drop-off will be available as early as 7am, and late pick-up will be available as late as 5pm.
Full STEAM Immersion
We don't just teach STEAM, we DO STEAM! Students will learn about the given STEAM theme at large, then approach it from various perspectives.
Practice critical ELA and Math skills
Students will practice grade-level reading, writing, and math skills in order to prevent summer brain drain and combat the effects of the Covid-slide.
All CDC health safety measures in place
As of current guidelines, masks will be optional for all students and teachers. To that end, we want to assure you that we'll be encouraging our students to practice hand washing regularly, as well as continuing our thorough, regular Covid-cleaning protocol in the center.
Their Summer, Their Way!
Rising 3rd through 8th grade | Book Individual Summer STEAM Camp Weeks!
1 course
$625 per course
2 courses
$599 per course
3 courses
$585 per course
4+ courses
$550 per course
Mysterious Phenomena
Natural Disasters Week
Our climate seems to get weirder each year, but nothing compares to the strange and mysterious phenomena of natural disasters. Over the course of 4 days, we’ll become junior meteorologists and explore the crazy nature of, well, nature! Projects will be centered around physical modeling and AR, so bring your creativity… and an umbrella!
Schedule
| 07/05 | Our Molten Earth: Volcanos, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis |
| 07/06 | Extreme Weather: Cyclones, Tornados, and Floods |
| 07/07 | The Surface isn't Safe: Droughts, Wildfires, and Landslides |
| 07/08 | Catastrophe! Asteroids, Solar Flares, and other major extinction events |
Grades
3 - 8
Time
9am - 3pm
Capacity
12 - 14
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Astrobiology Week
In this course we will be learning all about astrobiology! This is the study of finding potential habitats where life could exist on Earth in our Solar System and beyond. We will also be discussing the potential origins of life on Earth to how different planetary features influence the characteristics of life evolving on its surface. Lastly, we will dive into humanity's inevitable journey into the final frontier, and how we may eventually become “the aliens”!
Schedule
| 07/11 | Aliens - What would they even look like? |
| 07/12 | Origins of Life: How did life get on Earth? |
| 07/13 | Potential Habitats in our Solar System |
| 07/14 | Exoplanets and Intelligent Life |
| 07/15 | Leaving Earth: Colonizing Our Universe |
Grades
3 - 8
Time
9am - 3pm
Capacity
12 - 14
Crypto-Craze
Financial Literacy Week
Heard of Bitcoin, Doge, or Ethereum? What about NFT’s? Perhaps you’ve heard of a teen-turned-millionaire overnight through buying and selling crypto assets. Before we can start racking in the big bucks, we have to learn the field. Join us for a 101 on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and more! Best yet, for your capstone project you’ll create your own Non-Fungible Token (NFT!)
Schedule
| 07/18 | What are Crypto Assets? |
| 07/19 | Trading Assets 101 |
| 07/20 | Blockchain Explained |
| 07/21 | NFT’s Vs. Cryptocurrency |
| 07/22 | Crypto Capstone Portfolio Project |
Grades
3 - 8
Time
9am - 3pm
Capacity
12 - 14
Fold-Fest!
Origami Week
Origami is a millenia old practice, but most origami models have only been invented in the past 50 years. Our day to day lives depend on folding objects: clothes, cars, DNA. In fact, many of the universes’ mysteries could be solved using origami! Join us for a paper-folding bootcamp, introduction to geometric algorithms, and a peek between the folds around us.
Schedule
| 07/25 | Origami’s History |
| 07/26 | 1-D Folding & Applications |
| 07/27 | 2-D Folding & Applications |
| 07/28 | Folding Algorithms & Methodologies |
| 07/29 | Crease Pattern Design Capstone |
Grades
3 - 8
Time
9am - 3pm
Capacity
12 - 14
Rubber Geometry
Topology Week
Topology is the study of shapes but in a completely different way than geometry. Topology has no angles, lengths, measurements, or even numbers at all, but be warned, it is the “hardest” math! We’ll learn about how topology came to be, and what makes two things equal or unequal “topologically.”
Schedule
| 08/01 | Topology vs. Geometry |
| 08/02 | Knot Theory |
| 08/03 | Links, Braids, & Tangles Oh My! |
| 08/04 | 1-D Topology Invariants |
| 08/05 | Explorations in Higher Dimensions |
Grades
3 - 8
Time
9am - 3pm
Capacity
8 - 10
The Platonic Solids & Math In Ancient Greece
Historical Geometry Week
A historical overview of the mathematics of Ancient Greece, namely Plato’s work. The platonic solids were of great significance in Greek civilizations, having been thought to represent the elements, the five solids capture the imagination. By definition, one might think there would be infinitely many platonic solids, or at least a few hundred. However, there are only five! Whatever mysteries the universe hides in these 3D shapes, they appear over and over again in the structure of viruses, and other super tiny organisms.
Schedule
| 08/08 | The Solids in Ancient Greece |
| 08/09 | Meet the Famous 5 |
| 08/10 | Who’s related to who? |
| 08/11 | Mathematical Proof |
| 08/12 | The Solids in Your Life, Today! |
Grades
3 - 8
Time
9am - 3pm
Capacity
12 - 14
Bridges of NYC
Graph Theory Week
The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a historically notable problem in mathematics. A silly question once posed in 1736 eventually laid the ground for an entire field of mathematics, graph theory! While deep in his studies of mathematics, Euler looked out onto Königsberg and wondered, could I travel from town to town without crossing the same bridge twice? From there, reducing systems of complicated connections into networks of graphs has produced fascinating results! What can we learn about asking the same questions about Queens?
Schedule
| 08/15 | Local Bridges |
| 08/16 | Math Problem Solving Bootcamp |
| 08/17 | Graph Theory |
| 08/18 | Combinatorics |
| 08/19 | City Planning Capstone Project |
Grades
3 - 8
Time
9am - 3pm
Capacity
12 - 14
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Summer Camp day starts at 9:00am, however, parents can reach out to Ourania Liandrakis to arrange drop-offs closer to 8:00am or as early as 7:00am.
Between 9:00am and 12:00pm, campers receive instruction from our top-notch instructors in ELA and math through our state-of-the-art curriculum.
Once noon hits, our campers take a much-needed 30 minute break for lunch. Following lunch is 1 hour of outdoor play in our local park equipped with bocce courts and basketball courts, as well as your standard fun playground equipment (e.g. jungle gyms, swings.)
Following lunch, we dive into everybody’s favorite part of the day: our STEAM-themed activities. In years past, this has looked like designing and printing 3D robots, or creating origami DNA molecules. This constitutes the rest of our camp day, which concludes at 3:00pm.
No different than the start of the day, for parents needing to pick up their child(ren) later, we have accommodations available. Reach out to Ourania Liandrakis for more on this.
- Bocce, Basketball, Hopscotch
- Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
- Guest Speakers from Leaders in their Fields
- 3D Printing, and Origami Modeling
- Creative Interdisciplinary Themed-Projects
For parents of kids in Kindergarten through 2nd grade, the deadline to register for our 2022 Summer Camp is Friday, June 17th. However, we suggest you enroll your child ASAP, as seats fill quickly.
Yes! So long as you provide written permission for your child to walk home at the end of camp each day, they are more than welcome to! Quite a few parents of our teen and “tween” campers utilize this option.
For the most part, campers cannot use their phones during camp. We understand some campers may need to bring their phone to camp. In this case, their cellphone must stay stowed in their backpack for the duration of the day. Yes, that includes lunch and recess. There are a bunch of awesome benefits to putting down your cellphone for a bit, especially for kids.
As you can imagine, we are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or damaged cell phones, and we do suggest keeping them at home.
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