Best Summer Camps in Northbrook

Kids Science Labs Northbrook offers parents and kids 4+ its #1 ranked STEAM Camps, with 12 weeks of stimulating camps on the NorthShore at our world-class lab.

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Our STEAM Camps, designed to enhance your child’s critical thinking skills and problem solving ability, available between June - September.

Why do parents and kids think KSL Northbrook Camps are special?

Kids Science Labs' summer camps are some of the best in the nation thanks to our amazing team and the depth of our curriculum.  Designed from scratch with the best research available on design thinking, creativity, and problem solving, we are proud of teaching thousands of kids on the Northshore.

Our goal is to unlock the curiosity in every child, enabling the next generation of creative thinkers by changing the way your child perceives, learns about, and interacts with the world around them.  It is an audacious goal that has been the foundation for our core values since we began nearly a decade ago.

Explorers (PreK/K)

Investigators (1st/2nd)

Innovators (3rd-5th)

In our camps, we strive to help children retain their creative mindset by starting each day with a question to frame the entire experience. After experiencing something far different from the usual summer camp, students attending our camps will develop a better understanding of science concepts and more importantly confidence in their ability to design and create. They leave with a reawakened curiosity and desire to learn. 

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During the summer, we invite our Innovators (Ages 3-5), Investigators (6-7), Creators (8-9) and NexGen Designers (10-14) to join our differentiated programs that all are supported by PowerScience, our proprietary neuroscience-based hands-on science program, that has won awards across the country. Each summer, thousands of kids pour into Kids Science Labs, and do everything from designing Netflix streaming tech and Kid Sized Go-Carts, to exploring how to better insulate their lunchbag and developing a puncture proof soccer ball.

Every Summer Camp @KSL includes the following

  • Afternoon Creativity Study - A daily 45 minute STEAM challenge that changes daily to give kids an opportunity to solve a basic science problem using their hands-on creativity and imagination.
  • Morning Discovery Science - The first science class on a typical camp day is comprised of 4-6 discovery science experiments. Think of it as mixing lemons, sugar, and water to try to find the right combination of juice, and then adjusting the color, texture, and additives to see how it affects the flavor and emotional response of the juice. Basic Science.
  • Morning Innovation Science - The second science class, on a typical day involves a real problem based on discovery science, and then we teach kids how to use engineering problem solving to make a real product, that often they take home on the 2nd and 4th day of camp.
  • Afternoon FourSquare/Creators Choice - After a brief lunch, students are given options to choose sensory, engineering, art, or academic reading activities, so they can optimize a small bit of free time to play with friends or continue one of the morning experiences.
  • Outdoor Experience - An outdoor, instructor led adventure, with sharks and minnows, selected sports, mentos & coke launches, and general fun activities for kids that compliment our more academic focus morning and help release some energy before pickup.
  • The Big Close & Foursquare - We end the day applying the science and providing our students a strucured time to engage materials one more time before their scheduled pickup at the conclusion of the camp day

Join us and make this summer fun, rewarding, and one that will benefit your child for years to come. 

What summer camp Packages are available at our Northbrook Center?

Packages - We offer families three packages to be able to take advantage of our STEAM Camps. Each summer we offer 12 unique camps in Northbrook with four unique themes, which are customized for each age group.

All of our camps prices start at $425 for Full-Day M-F STEAM Experiences, and $300 for Half-Day M-F STEAM Experiences, including three popular packages below:

  • Max Learning Flex 4-Pack (4 weeks) - Choose any four weeks, either adjacent, or as four individual weeks that match your schedule and save $$.

  • Science Pro 2-Pack (2 weeks) - Choose any two weeks, at any point in the summer

  • Half-Day Pack (2+ weeks) - Parents who desire to just participate in the morning STEAM enrichment from 9am-12pm, have a camp package that offers them the ability to join Northbrook throughout the summer.

Note: For parents who need just a single week, we are proud to offer single week camps, and strongly recommend these parents to sign-up during early registration periods, as these packages have a limited availability.

Summer Camp Offerings: Each week of camp we offer a unique science theme, with each day at Kids Science Labs containing two science classes, and art/design classes, outdoor experience and Art &Creativity Studio .

Ages JK to 6th grade.  For kids who love our range of creative summer camp topics where we build, design, experiment, and create.