Hudson Community Education & School Age Care

Do you find yourself tinkering with models, motors and gears? Join Science Explorers and put your building skills to the test as an elementary engineer by designing and constructing remote-controlled vehicles. Build different vehicles while learning about motors, gears and robotics. Then, test your creations and motoring skills with fun and challenging obstacle courses. Lastly, create a vibro-bot, from a simple tinkering kit, to take home.

Join Science Explorers In the Emergency Room! You will become a student doctor as you learn about the human body and basic first aid through plenty of hands on activities. You will explore the respiratory, circulatory and skeletal systems, plus learn the importance of mucus and other gross stuff that your body produces to keep you healthy. Also, you will participate in mock emergency situations, create a basic first aid kit and more when you join us in the emergency room.

Minecraft is a sandbox building game that has been dominating the world of video gaming for the past few years. Collaborate with fellow students to construct a city! Students will take home their completed “world” file at the end of camp. Beginner and experienced Minecrafters alike will love this action packed camp! Please bring a peanut free snack and beverage. 

From a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars comes to life! Work on a stop motion animated Lego Star Wars Movie. Action figures, Legos and backdrops will be available for filming in class. Handle all the technical details including using a digital movie camera, filming scenes, stop-motion animation, digital editing and adding finishing special effects to the movie. In this hands-on learning class, students will learn the digital filmmaking steps from start to finish using Frames Software. Please send a USB jump drive to class to save your final project, or they can be emailed to parents. Please bring a peanut free snack and beverage. 

When we mean ultimate, we mean ultimate! In this camp you’ll not only learn all about rocketry and launch a rocket 300 feet into the air, you’ll also build your own rocket, create rocket fuel, and explore the lunar mission with a 3ft tall LEGO ® Saturn V Model. Learn about the night sky as you create and take home a super cool illuminated constellation map and an illuminated planet. So when night falls you can travel the stars and planets with your imagination! To top it all off, you’ll create a parachute for your Lego Minifigure! Please bring one empty 2 liter plastic bottle and a peanut free snack and beverage.