summer camps
This summer, campers are invited to explore aviation, space, and STEM through our Destination: Exploration Summer Camps!
Campers can look forward to:
Week-long adventures in aviation, space, and STEM
Hands-on activities and challenges
Age-appropriate learning designed to spark curiosity
Exploration of aviation careers, weather, and historic aircraft
Premium camps featuring robotics and drones, where campers build and take home their creations
All Camps Take Place in the Museum from 10 A.M. - 3 P.M.
Ages 6 – 14
$315 per Camp (Just $280 for members)
$340 per Premium Camp (Just $305 for members)
Before and After care Available *Additional charge applies
Bring a lunch or pre-order from Minuti Cafe
REGISTER TODAY!
Select a week below to start exploring!
June 1-5, 2026 - First Flyers (Ages 6-8), Pilot Maker: Primary Training (Ages 7-9)
First Flyers (Ages 6-8)
From Wright Brothers to Outer Space, little learners become junior aviators in training while leaning about planes, weather, space, and more! Your tiny aviator will be able to recite the forces of flight, explain STEM concepts while doing hands on experiments, and share the history of flight through fun scavenger hunts and crafts!
Pilot Maker: Primary Training (Ages 7-9)
Do you want to take to the skies one day? Learn the steps to become a pilot accepted into Ground School with a strong understanding of airplanes. You’ll learn the basics of flight and aircraft mechanics so you will be ready for the next step, Basic Training (ages 10-12)
June 8-12, 2026 - Junior Meteorologist (Ages 6-8), NEW! Up, UP, & Create (Ages 7-9), Pilot Maker: Basic Training (Ages 10-12)
Junior Meteorologist (Ages 6-8)
If you think learning about weather is cooler than cool and hotter than hot, then this camp is for you! Learn all about rain cycles, different weather conditions, and what pilots need to know for a safe flight. Test your weather wisdom as you fly indifferent weather conditions.
NEW! Up, Up, & Create (Ages 7-9)
Explore the world of flight through STEAM-focused, hands-on crafts inspired by hot air balloons, biplanes, and helicopters, along with simple STEM activities and imaginative play.
Pilot Maker: Basic Training (Ages 10-12)
Recommended prerequisite – Pilot maker: Primary Training
Follow flight school training as you learn the science that a pilot needs to know how physics is used to control the aircraft, and the mechanics inside the planes. Practice simulator flying on the flight trainers using your new navigating and piloting skills as you progress through flight plans. Complete Basic Training to be eligible for Pilot Maker: Advanced Training (Ages 13-14).
June 15-19, 2026 - Girls Take Flight (Ages 7-9), Pilot Maker! Primary Training (Ages 7-9), Aero Derby Dash (Ages 10-12)
Girls Take Flight (Ages 7-9)
This girl-centric camp is STEMtastic! Learn the fundamentals of flight and the science that makes aircraft fly in multiple dimensions. Use your math skills to plot your flight path and navigate across the skies. Be inspired by the legendary women who flew fist into the air and space to blaze trails for girls today. Explore play, activate, and experiment with other girls who love aviation!
*This camp is a program of Girls in Aviation and made possible by ExxonMobil.
Pilot Maker: Primary Training (Ages 7-9)
Do you want to take to the skies one day? Learn the steps to become a pilot accepted into Ground School with a strong understanding of airplanes. You’ll learn the basics of flight and aircraft mechanics so you will be ready for the next step, Basic Training (ages 10-12)
Aero Dash Derby (Ages 10-12)
This challenge will test your skills and nerves! Each race segment puts you into the world of the most demanding places people fly. Can you make it through the Grand Canyon, as a bush pilot in the tundra, through remote mountains, or land on an aircraft carrier? Learn about the geography, weather, and other conditions that make each location so risky as you race around the world.
June 22-26, 2026 - NEW! Innovators in Orbit (Ages 7-9), Pilot Maker: Advanced Training (Ages 13-14), Aces & Legends: The First 50 Years (Ages 10-12)
NEW! Innovators in Orbit (Ages 7-9)
Explore the journey from Earth to outer space and back through hands-on STEM challenges and guided museum tours. Campers will discover groundbreaking space innovations, past and present, by exploring the Space Gallery, NASA training artifacts, and simulators while tackling engineering challenges and STEAM activities.
Pilot Maker: Advanced Training (Ages 13-14)
After completing Pilot Maker: Basic Training, continue your training to a greater skill set including flying in more real-world situations. You’ve learned how to navigate a flight path, but can you calculate the trip and land with a 30-mph crosswind, at night, with a 1000ft cloud ceiling? In this next level training, test your piloting skills of maintaining altitude, controlled turns, and instrument flight while dealing with weather conditions, convection currents, and mechanical failures.
Aces & Legends: The First 50 Years (Ages 10-12)
From the dawn of flight to the battles of the skies, the race was on for superior engineering designs for bigger and faster aircraft. Take a close look at the planes and people that made history during the first 50 years of flight. Examine different aircraft up close, including WW11 Warbirds- observers, trainers, dive bombers, fighters, and heavy bombers – to see how difference in technology meant success or failure. Be inspired by leaders, entrepreneurs, trailblazers, and military aviators who broke barriers and became aviation legends.
June 29 - July 3, 2026 (Premium) - Aero Girls (Ages 10-12), NEW! Robotics Challenge (Ages 13-14)
Aero Girls (Ages 10-12)
Do you have your head in the clouds? That’s STEMtastic! In this empowering aviation STEM camp, girls will explore the fundamentals of flight while meeting and learning directly from women working across the aviation industry, gaining insight into the many career pathways available to them. Through hands-on engineering challenges, including building and taking home their own drone, campers will build confidence in STEM skills, discover their place in aviation, and imagine just how far their future can fly.
*This camps registration fee includes the cost of materials for a build-and-take-home drone experience.
*This camp is a program of Girls in Aviation and made possible by ExxonMobil.
NEW! Robotics Challenge (Ages 13-14)
Get ready to build, code, and problem-solve! In this hands-on robotics camp, campers become engineers as they build their own Bot from the ground up and learn the fundamentals of robotics, coding, and engineering design. Best of all, each camper takes their Bot home at the end of the week, continuing their robotics journey long after camp ends!
*This camps registration fee includes the cost of materials for a build-and-take-home robotics experience.
July 6-10, 2026 - Junior Meteorologist (Ages 6-8), Pilot Maker: Primary Training (Ages 7-9), Pilot Maker: Basic Training (Ages 10-12)
Junior Meteorologist (Ages 6-8)
If you think learning about weather is cooler than cool and hotter than hot, then this camp is for you! Learn all about rain cycles, different weather conditions, and what pilots need to know for a safe flight. Test your weather wisdom as you fly indifferent weather conditions.
Pilot Maker: Primary Training (Ages 7-9)
Do you want to take to the skies one day? Learn the steps to become a pilot accepted into Ground School with a strong understanding of airplanes. You’ll learn the basics of flight and aircraft mechanics so you will be ready for the next step, Basic Training (ages 10-12)
Pilot Maker: Basic Training (Ages 10-12)
Recommended prerequisite – Pilot maker: Primary Training
Follow flight school training as you learn the science that a pilot needs to know how physics is used to control the aircraft, and the mechanics inside the planes. Practice simulator flying on the flight trainers using your new navigating and piloting skills as you progress through flight plans. Complete Basic Training to be eligible for Pilot Maker: Advanced Training (Ages 13-14).
July 13-17, 2026 - First Flyers (Ages 6-8), NEW! Up, Up, & Create (Ages 7-9), NEW! Engineering for Takeoff! (Ages 10-12)
First Flyers (Ages 6-8)
From Wright Brothers to Outer Space, little learners become junior aviators in training while leaning about planes, weather, space, and more! Your tiny aviator will be able to recite the forces of flight, explain STEM concepts while doing hands on experiments, and share the history of flight through fun scavenger hunts and crafts!
NEW! Up, Up, & Create (Ages 7-9)
Explore the world of flight through STEAM-focused, hands-on crafts inspired by hot air balloons, biplanes, and helicopters, along with simple STEM activities and imaginative play.
NEW! Engineering for Takeoff! (Ages 10-12)
Step into the hangar and take on a real-world aviation engineering challenge! In this immersive STEM camp, campers will work in teams to identify a problem facing modern aviation and design, test, and refine an innovative solution using the engineering design process. Guided by hands-on experiments, research, and prototype development, set among the museum’s historic aircraft, campers will think like engineers, collaborate like innovators, and present their final solutions just like industry professionals.
July 20-24, 2026 - Aero Derby Dash (Ages 10-12), Pilot Maker: Basic Training (Ages 10-12), Pilot Maker: Advanced Training (Ages 13-14)
Aero Dash Derby (Ages 10-12)
This challenge will test your skills and nerves! Each race segment puts you into the world of the most demanding places people fly. Can you make it through the Grand Canyon, as a bush pilot in the tundra, through remote mountains, or land on an aircraft carrier? Learn about the geography, weather, and other conditions that make each location so risky as you race around the world.
Pilot Maker: Basic Training (Ages 10-12)
Recommended prerequisite – Pilot maker: Primary Training
Follow flight school training as you learn the science that a pilot needs to know how physics is used to control the aircraft, and the mechanics inside the planes. Practice simulator flying on the flight trainers using your new navigating and piloting skills as you progress through flight plans. Complete Basic Training to be eligible for Pilot Maker: Advanced Training (Ages 13-14).
Pilot Maker: Advanced Training (Ages 13-14)
After completing Pilot Maker: Basic Training, continue your training to a greater skill set including flying in more real-world situations. You’ve learned how to navigate a flight path, but can you calculate the trip and land with a 30-mph crosswind, at night, with a 1000ft cloud ceiling? In this next level training, test your piloting skills of maintaining altitude, controlled turns, and instrument flight while dealing with weather conditions, convection currents, and mechanical failures.
July 27 - 31, 2026 - Aces & Legends: Beyond the First 50 Years (Ages 10-12), Pilot Maker: Ready for Flight (Ages 13-14)
Aces & Legends: Beyond the First 50 Years (Ages 10-12)
After World War II, the Space Race, Cold War, and growth of commercial aviation all became possible because of the aviation pioneers who came before. Take a close look at the planes and people that made history beyond the first 50 years of flight. Examine different aircraft and aerospace vehicles up close to see how differences in technology meant success or failure. Be inspired by leaders, entrepreneurs, trailblazers, and military aviators who broke barriers and became aviation legends.
Pilot Maker: Ready for Flight (Ages 13-14)
Discover what it takes to be flight-ready while learning about pilot training and aviation careers. Campers engage in progressive, hands-on STEM challenges that build skills and confidence throughout the week. Aviation industry experts will be sharing their favorite stories and their secrets to success to get you ready for flight.
