Summer S.T.E.A.M. Camp 2023
Open to students entering grades 1-6
S.T.E.A.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) is an exciting, ever-evolving part of education and the world around us. But kids don’t always get the chance to play and explore in these areas in a meaningful way beyond school. At Tutor Doctor Hawaii’s spring break camp, students will have the chance to enrich their S.T.E.A.M. knowledge through fun, hands-on projects and activities.
Campers will encounter open-ended challenges and interactive projects that engage core S.T.E.A.M. principles while centering student imagination, curiosity, and enjoyment. They’ll get creative with a diverse range of materials and tools, and develop tangible skills in art, writing, and S.T.E.M.
From building robots and gadgets, to exploring print making and traditional dye techniques, to writing original stories and more, our goal is to inspire the next generation of innovators, problem solvers, and creative thinkers.
Join our S.T.E.A.M. TEAM – where learning feels like play!
Photos by Suarez Creative House
Recommended for:
Students entering grades 1-6 for the 2023 – 2024 school year. Students must have completed Kindergarten. If your child has aged out of our program but would still like to join us, please contact us!
Classes will be a combination of mixed ages differentiated into 2 classes – Mahina (grades 1-2) and Hoku (grades 3-6). Differentiation and class distribution is subject to enrollment. Students may be combined into 1 class with lower enrollment.
Tentative schedule. Schedule is subject to change.
Please drop off your camper between 7:30 – 8:00
| Mahina (grades 1-2) | Hoku (grades 3-6) | ||
| 8:00 – 8:15 | Morning Challenge | 8:00 – 8:15 | Morning Challenge |
| 8:15 – 9:15 | Writing | 8:15 – 9:30 | Art |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Snack Break | 9:30 – 10:00 | Snack Break |
| 9:45 – 11:00 | Art | 10:00 – 11:45 | STEM |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Lunch & Free Play | 11:45 – 12:45 | Lunch & Free Play |
| 12:00 – 1:45 | STEM | 12:45 – 1:45 | Writing |
2:00 – 2:20 Pick-up in car line
2:00 – 5:30 Optional Extended Day Activities program
New for 2023!
S.T.E.A.M. Camp parent open house!
At the end of each week, parents are invited to see the amazing creations the S.T.E.A.M. Team has been working on. From inventive engineering projects to multidisciplinary art and writing, come experience the fun and learning that takes place at our camp. This exciting new showcase will take place on Friday afternoons!
Summer Camp Package Discount Pricing
3-5 week purchase per student – $5 off per week ($15 – $25 savings)
6-8 week purchase per student – $8 off per week ($48 – $64 savings)
9-10 week purchase per student – $10 0ff per week ($90 – $100 savings)
Holiday Week 1: Tunes & Vrooms
May 30 – June 2
Holiday week. No class Monday 5/29 in observance of Memorial Day
Tuesday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $376 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Drive into summer with a blast of engineering, innovation and creativity! This week, we will build a sound activated car, explore the art of dyeing techniques, and sew our imagination into a written quilt.
Project Sneak Peek
- Learn the mechanism of a simple, motorized car and the concept of a microphone
- Build a *sound activated car
- Design thinking challenge: design and build a conductive musical instrument
- *Tie dye & shibori art
- Create a *writing quilt
*Take-home project
Week 2: Keiki, CEO
June 5 – 9
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Discover the secrets of success to become Manoa’s top entrepreneur! This week, you will conceptualize, materialize and market your business with your own branded merchandise.
Project Sneak Peek
- Take an immersive dive into entrepreneurship and create your own service-oriented business
- Design and market your original brand complete with logos, slogan, poster, and other media such as a video commercial or informative website
- Design and create your own brand merchandise such as *vinyl stickers and *logo buttons
- Market your business and buy and sell merchandise at the Tutor Doctor Hawaii Business Expo!
*Take-home project
Week 3: Keep Calm and Game On
June 12 – 16
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Eat. Sleep. Game. Repeat! But we will not just be playing games, we will unleash our creativity and build a game controller to better understand how our favorite games work while learning the important interaction between hardware and software. We will also build a circuit maze game, and even write and illustrate our own comic book.
Project Sneak Peek
- Learn about simple circuits and build a *circuit maze game
- Students will be given the option to design and code their own game
- Design thinking challenge: build a functional game controller for a digital game
- *Sew felt toys
- *Create your own comic book
*Take-home project
Week 4: CLOSED
No camp June 19 – 23
Week 5: Dream it. Build it.
June 26 – 30
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
This week we will take a journey into the world of architecture and design! Join us and engineer a functioning elevator for your dream home, design a building plan for your new city, and write and produce your own movie script!
Project Sneak Peek
- Learn about simple machines and build a *motorized elevator
- Design thinking challenge: build your *dream house
- *Design and draw your own city
- *Write your own movie script
*Take-home project
Holiday Week 6: Medieval Machines
July 3 – 7
Holiday week. No class Tuesday 7/4 in observance of Independence Day
Monday and Wednesday – Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $376 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Let’s go back in time and explore marvelous medieval engineering and wonderful weaving! Campers will also have the opportunity to practice their writing skills by composing postcards and letters to share their experiences with their loved ones.
Project Sneak Peek
- Learn about potential and kinetic energy and build a canon, ballista, and catapult
- Design thinking challenge: build a castle
- *Weave a decorative wall hanging
- *Write a postcard and letter
*Take-home project
Week 7: It All Makes Cents!
July 10 – 14
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Economics that makes cents! We will begin our adventure with financial literacy then build a coin eating robot bank. We will imagine what the future might hold as we write about our own invention and explore the art of metal embossing.
Project Sneak Peek
- Learn early financial literacy concepts such as allowances and spending plans, budgeting and money responsibility, and saving and investing
- Learn about sensors and conductors and build a *coin eating robot bank
- *Create embossed metal ornaments
- *Imagine and write about your new invention
*Take-home project
Week 8: Marble Madness
July 17 – 21
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Let’s learn all about physics and engineering as we design and build our very own marble roller coasters! Campers will also get to create their own paper from scratch and use it to make their very own book. They will then bring these book pages to life with their own silly Mad Libs.
Project Sneak Peek
- Learn about gravitational potential energy and momentum
- Design and build your own *marble coaster
- *Create your own paper and bind it into a book
- *Write your own Mad Libs book
*Take-home project
Week 9: Breakout! 2.0
July 24 – 28
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Can you escape (again)? Put your problem-solving skills to the test at a whole new escape room at Breakout 2.0! Back by popular demand, this week-long adventure is designed for kids who love puzzles and challenges. Campers will work together to crack codes, solve riddles, and find hidden clues.
Project Sneak Peek
- Work as a team to breakout of an escape room
- Learn about NO vs. NC magnetic reed switches
- Build a *treasure chest with a burglar alarm
- *Create abstract selfie art
- *Create a pop-up book
*Take-home project
Week 10: Battle Bots
July 31 – August 4
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Ready, set…battle! Set your robots loose at the most epic battle of the summer. Then, bring your imaginations to life by creating fantastical creatures using papier mache. This fun-filled week will combine STEM skills with artistic expression, making it a perfect balance of learning and fun!
Project Sneak Peek
- Practice design thinking, learn about circuit boards and build and battle various robots
- *Create papier mache alebrijes, inspired by the Disney movie, Coco.
- *Roll-A-Story writing challenge
Week 11: Operation Spy Kids
August 7 – 11
Monday-Friday 8 AM-2 PM | $470 (tax included in pricing)
Optional Extended Day Activities program $31.50 per day
Purchased lunch options available
Welcome to Operation Spy Kids! Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it. Dive into a world of espionage, mystery and adventure! Join us as we embark on a week-long mission to become master spies. During this exciting week, we will code our spybot sidekicks, build our own spy gear, and work together to solve mysteries and complete challenges. In art, we will make gidgets and gadgets out of shrinky dink, and in writing, create our very own mystery box story.
Project Sneak Peek
- Work as a team to solve a mystery
- Code robots to complete top secret missions
- Learn about circuits and buzzers and build a *trip alarm
- Create *shrinky dink keychains
- Create your own *mystery box with clues and stories
*Take-home project
Summer Camp Package Discount Pricing
3-5 week purchase per student – $5 off per week ($15 – $25 savings)
6-8 week purchase per student – $8 off per week ($48 – $64 savings)
9-10 week purchase per student – $10 0ff per week ($90 – $100 savings)
Please review our camp policies and guidelines carefully
Health & Safety Guidelines
- Masks are now optional during camp
- Frequent hand washing and use of hand sanitizer will be encouraged throughout the day
- Each student will have their own general supplies and cubby
- Staff will be required to thoroughly disinfect the center frequently throughout the day
- Any public place where people gather presents an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 or other communicable illnesses. Families must abide by Tutor Doctor Hawaii’s policies and procedures to mitigate this and assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and other illnesses.
Please click to view Tutor Doctor Hawaii’s updated Health Guidelines and Policies
Behavior Expectations
Tutor Doctor Hawaii upholds the fundamental principle that every individual should be treated with dignity, respect and care to allow the opportunity to learn in a safe, fun and caring environment free from inappropriate language and unsafe or unethical behavior. Every student plays an important role in our camps, and we all must act in a manner that promotes care and mutual respect for each other. The safety and well-being of each and every one of our students and team members are of our highest priority, and we kindly request that you please discuss these behavior expectations with your child. In the event that a student behaves in a way that disrupts the camp experience for others or endangers other students or team members, parents will be notified immediately and students may be sent home. Tutor Doctor Hawaii reserves the right to ask children not to return to the learning center if their behavior consistently and negatively affects other students and team members. In this case, tuition fees will not be refunded.
Attendance
All students and staff are required to stay home and not attend camp if they are feeling sick or showing symptoms of illness. This is a key step in keeping our center safe for everyone, and we kindly request for parents to assess their children before coming to camp. If your child will be staying home and missing class for any reason, please report this to the office.
info-tdhawaii@tutordoctor.com
(808) 439-6777
Booking Fee
All registrations will be subject to a $1.99 non-refundable booking fee required by our integrated registration software, Sawyer. This will be applied once per order at checkout.
Cancellation Policy
Should you choose to cancel your registration for any reason, you must provide notice 14 days before the start of the week you are enrolled in to receive a full refund minus a $5.00 processing fee. Should you choose to cancel your registration for any reason within 14 days of the start of the week of camp, you will be issued an 80% refund minus a $5.00 processing fee. There will be no refunds issued once the week begins. In the event that a class has low enrollment, we may cancel the class and offer a full refund or combine classes.
Drop-Off Procedures
New Drive-Through Pick-Up Procedures
Extended Day Activities Program
As a way to support our families’ busy schedules, we are pleased to offer extended day activities for students. Students will engage in fun and educational activities under the care and supervision of our kind camp assistants. Extended day activities are available daily during camps from 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM. We kindly request for families enrolled in the extended day activities program to please provide additional snacks for their children.
Lunch and Snacks
Please send a small snack for your child daily. For lunch, you may send a home packed lunch or sign up for the purchased lunch option. Purchased lunch options are available from our friendly neighbors in Manoa Marketplace (Manoa Sushi, Subway, L&L, Brug and Island Manapua) ranging from $4.50 – $13.25 per day (taxes included in pricing). Purchased lunch will incur additional cost separately charged to your card on file following your registration. If you have any questions or need assistance in ordering your purchased lunch, please feel free to contact our team and we will be happy to assist you.
808-439-6777
Please click here to see a detailed lunch menu
- Please send a small snack for your child daily
- Please send a home packed lunch or sign up for the purchased lunch option
- All students will eat in their classroom or a shaded outdoor area if weather permits
- Hand washing will be required before and after lunch and snacks
- Students may not share food
- There will be no access to refrigerators or microwaves to keep cool or heat up food brought from home
- Students should bring their own water bottle each day
- Tutor Doctor Hawaii is a peanut free center. Please refrain from bringing any peanuts or products containing peanuts into the classroom. We thank you for your cooperation in helping to keep all our students safe
