STEAMpunk Machines in Motion Camp

Board your airships and jettison the ballast! Join in the fight to save a dystopian realm and create beautiful and imaginative kinetic sculptures that tell your hero’s tale. Immerse yourself in a world of gears, gadgets, and gizmos as you explore the exciting world of steampunk. In this immersive week-long day camp, participants in grades 8 – 12 will be introduced to the engineering design process while they learn and use basic science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) concepts to construct their own steampunk-themed automata. With expert instructors on hand to guide you every step of the way, you’ll experience hands-on learning and problem-solving like never before. Instructional content will focus on mechanical movement design, electric circuits, genre specific aesthetics, retro-futuristic storytelling, programming, and computational thinking. The project-based approach will emphasize problem identification, brainstorming, problem solving, rapid prototyping, teamwork, and communication. The camp will culminate with an exposition of finished automata projects that student engineers can take home with them! Don’t miss this unforgettable opportunity to spark your imagination and unleash your inner inventor! This camp runs from 9 AM – 5 PM each day. Enroll now and get ready to power up your summer!

This camp can be taken for 1 or 2 weeks, and participants can register for one week (Week 1 or Week 2), or register for both weeks and design even more sophisticated contraptions and go deeper into the instructional content areas under the expert guidance of our teaching team. You can sign up for Week 1 at this link: https://specialevents.asu.edu/steampunkpoly1 and Week 2 at this link: https://specialevents.asu.edu/steampunkpoly2.