Summer Camps

  • Intro to Milling Machinery - In this class students will learn the safe operation and daily maintenance of the vertical knee milling machine. Students will do some manual machining and some simple programming, and will observe some CNC Machining in action. Students must tie back long hair, wear short sleeves, long pants and wear closed toe shoes.

  • Intro to Lathe - Designed for beginners, this introductory class will expose students to the basics of machining and metal fabrication using the lathe, including facing, turning and drilling. Students must tie back long hair, wear short sleeves, long pants and wear closed toe shoes.

  • Kerbal Space Camp - The Kerbal Space Program game is a creative and fun way for students to explore orbital physics. With help from the little green Kerbals, students create rockets and space planes of their own design and launch them from the space center’s launch pad or runway. Mission goals include achieving orbit, landing on the moon, landing on other planets, capturing asteroids and creating space stations.

  • Kerbal Space Program - The Kerbal Space Program game is a creative and fun way for students to explore orbital physics. With help from the little green Kerbals, students create rockets and space planes of their own design and launch them from the space center’s launch pad or runway. Mission goals include achieving orbit, landing on the moon, landing on other planets, capturing asteroids and creating space stations.

  • Cooperative Minecraft - On the surface, Minecraft seems like a simple game. The Minecraft world is large, open-ended and full of hostile creatures. You must mine stone, chop wood, build shelter, grow food, and build weapons to survive. But to move on to large and complex building projects, a community of Minecrafters must work together. As a group, students will design and plan a city. Students will establish rules and conventions, cooperate with each other, manage scarce resources and create divisions of labor. In this camp we will all play vanilla Minecraft on our own server. The world will be fresh, and as a group we will decide what to build. And most importantly - have some summer fun!

  • 3D Printing and Design - This camp allows students to learn Computer Aided Design (CAD) and print their own designed parts. Students will learn to CAD in OnShape, and learn the basics of 2D drawing and hand sketching. They will then learn to create 3D models from engineering drawings and produce assemblies of basic parts. Students will learn how to use the 3D printer slicer and operate our 3D printers (Prusa and MarkForge).

  • Intro to Java Programming - Students will learn the basics of Java programming. Students will progress through a self-paced course with assistance from our advanced high school programmers. The course covers basic data types and operators, conditionals, iteration, arrays, lists, inheritance and recursion. Students will also be introduced to competition coding problems and will work through examples with our experts.

UACR Summer Camp Flyers 2022.pdf