Lavner Camps at Gwynedd-Mercy Academy Elementary

Action-Packed Drills, Games, and Competitions!

IF YOU LOVE SPORTS, being on a team, developing skills, and lots of action-packed, friendly competition, this Sports Camp is for you. In Prime Time Sports you’ll be exposed to a wide variety of sports, drills, and games. Work on skills and compete in traditional sports like Soccer, Basketball, Softball, SpikeBall, Mini Tennis, Track & Field, and more! You will also engage in fun and less traditional games like Capture the Flag, Run the Bases, and Frisbee Golf, among others. The variety of sports offered allows you to try many sports, and develop a passion for athletics!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include building your hand-eye coordination, fitness, strength, knowledge of sports rules, strategy, and lots more!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Prime Time Sports, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Take Your Skills To The Next Level.

Participate in a variety of drills focusing on dribbling, passing, and shooting to help you become a Triple Threat on offense. Additionally, activities that highlight defense, rebounding, and footwork are used to further develop the overall skill set of each camper. Implement these skills during exciting games, scrimmages, and competitions throughout the week.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include building technical skills, confidence, and self-esteem. 

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Basketball Camp, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Build Your Skills and Prepare for Fall Soccer.

Learn the proper fundamentals and techniques of the most popular sport in the world! You’ll receive individual and group coaching throughout the week after being divided into teams based on age and ability for drills, games, and competitions. Regardless of age or position, you’ll participate in both offensive and defensive drills, helping you develop and improve the different aspects of your game. Our training program actively encourages you to use both your dominant and non-dominant feet, and emphasizes the importance of ball control, field awareness, and adequate spacing among players.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include passing, dribbling, shooting, defense, teamwork, and more! 

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Soccer Camp, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

The Ultimate Football Skills Camp.

Come run, pass, and kick your way to victory in this action-packed camp! Our coaches will help you build self-confidence through positive instruction and feedback, allowing you to improve your skills, techniques, and knowledge of the game. You’ll participate in a variety of fun skill competitions throughout the week in preparation for the Friday Pro Bowl Skills Showdown – just like the Pros! You will also gain valuable game-play experience each day in daily scrimmages.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include improving fundamentals and techniques in passing, route running, receiving, running with the ball, punting and kicking, defensive positioning, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Football Camp. 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Join us for the ultimate Culinary Arts Camp, with ingredients from local Whole Foods Markets.

In this hands-on learning experience, campers of all abilities have a blast actively participating in a safe environment in cooking (AM session) and baking (PM session) lessons each day. With different menus every day and every week, you will always be using fresh ingredients to try out new homemade recipes. Many aspects of the cuisine and desserts are made from scratch, so you get to experience the full culinary process. The variety of appetizers, entrées, and desserts made each week include international and domestic favorites, and vary from day to day and week to week. A bake-off competition takes place every Friday with camp judges and tons of excitement. Book your spot before it’s too late!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include lessons in healthy eating, kitchen and food safety, consumer science, and how to work well with others. 

Camp Take-Homes: 2023 Recipe Book, Certificate of Excellence – Culinary Camp 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Food items that may be limited by quantity from Whole Foods or other factors will be supplemented from other food sources with high quality in mind.

Discover Your Inner Superhero.

BAM! ZAP! KAPOW! Assume your superhero identity and use it to make projects and complete exciting activities! The week is action packed with super fun missions like building a superhero headquarters, making a robotic sidekick, creating an awesome superhero book, and more!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include exploring the science behind awesome superhero powers like flight, night vision, time travel, and magnetism, and hands-on engineering with LEGO® Mindstorms! 

Camp Take-Homes: Customized Superhero Cape, Superhero Book, Certificate of Excellence – Superhero Camp, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Get A Head Start In Coding.

Gain great experience with computer science using Scratch, a program designed by the MIT Media Lab, to code, create, and share projects. Scratch uses a custom programming language that’s easy to understand. By moving and combining blocks of code, you’ll develop your own super cool animation projects. You can also make your animations interactive by including instructions, designing your character’s costumes, adding unique background images and sounds, and programming characters to dance, sing, talk, and more!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include preparing for success in coding, improving logical thinking skills, and building creativity and design skills. 

Camp Take-Homes: At least two projects, Certificate of Excellence – Coding 101 Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Success In Coding Starts Here.

Scratch is the perfect programming language to start out with. Scratch is designed to function like other programming languages, containing all of the logic and key elements of programming such as loops, variables, functions, and conditionals, but without the difficult syntax common in most languages.

This camp is perfect for campers who have already picked up on those fundamentals of Scratch, or are quick learners and strong in math. Once everyone has the basics down, we’ll show you what you can do with all of those tools by making awesome projects and games from Asteroids, to automatic code-breakers, to Mario-style platformer games.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include learning to program, improving logical thinking skills, and building creativity and design skills. 

Prerequisite: Students should have attended at least one session of our Coding 101 or have at least 15 independent hours of experience with Scratch. Otherwise, please start coding with us in our Scratch Coding 101 course!

Camp Take-Homes: At least two projects, Certificate of Excellence – Coding 102 Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Don’t Just Play Games…Create Them.

Create your own video games and apps that are compatible with PC, Android™ and/or iOS devices. This camp is a perfect opportunity for aspiring game designers to come away with added skills, knowledge, awesome projects, and lots of accomplishments! In addition to using objects and scenery, you can manipulate the design of objects or make your own. You’ll also be able to expand the games and apps to multiple frames and scenes, resulting in a complete multi-level arcade or platform game/app. 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include a chance to manage a project from start to finish, explore programming logic, and build skills in animation and design.

Camp Take-Homes: At least two video games, Certificate of Excellence – Intro to Game Design, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

Become the Ultimate Pokémon Trainer!

Discover the secrets of Pokémon while creating the ultimate team! Find out how to most effectively battle your friends so you can come out on top! At camp, you will join in Pokémon card games using your own decks and online simulators, in addition to battling against AI and other campers! Learn how to take your Pokémon battling skills to the next level by learning what Pokémon types and moves are effective against your opponents. Each day, you will learn new and improved ways to utilize your Pokémon team to its full potential. Exciting tournaments take place each week! 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include learning about the history of Pokémon including legendary Pokémon such as Mew, Groudon, Kyogre and more, exploring Pokémon types, move effectiveness, strategy, and counters, building skills in multiple dimensions of gameplay, diving into tournaments and competitions, and more! At the end of the week, campers can go home with boosted self-confidence and a deeper understanding of the popular game.

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Pokémon Camp with Games, Strategies, and Competitions, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Campers can also bring their favorite Pokémon cards to present at camp! 

Join Us for a Week of Exciting Tournament Events and Robowars!

Design, build, customize, and battle robots every day!

Build Awesome Robots.  By the end of day one, you’ll be battling and racing with your finished prototypes! You can build from a variety of instructions or design your own robots from the ground up.

Test Your Robot in the Arena.  Each day, you’ll be able to compete in battles and other events such as races and obstacle courses.

Upgrade Your Robot.  After battles and challenges, you can create addons, defenses, and upgrades to make your robots stronger, tougher, or faster.

Learn While Having a Great Time.  Camp is action-packed with tons of excitement, competitions, and fun. Plus, getting experience building, experimenting, and even coding makes camp a great educational experience too. 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include hands-on building, epic competitions, and working as part of a team. 

Camp Take-Homes: Lavner Robotics League Trophy, a Certificate of Excellence – Robotics League, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Invent. Build. Code. Compete. Have Fun. This is the ultimate robotics and coding experience. 

At our Robotics Camps, you’ll use LEGO® Robots to learn the fundamentals of robotics and engineering. By learning important principles, you’ll acquire the ability to build robots by following step-by-step instructions, and eventually free build using your own creativity. You’ll also learn how to remote control your robots, work in teams, and program robots to move and use sensors!

Added bonus! You’ll utilize math, logic, and critical thinking skills through building, programming, the use of trial and error, and the measurement of speed, time and distance during challenges.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include hands-on building, learning coding skills, and working as part of a team. 

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Robotics Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

If You Can Imagine It, You Can Build It.

Build and digitally design roller coasters using FAO Schwarz® kits, Roblox, and more. In addition to having tons of fun and building skills in design and construction, you will also learn about physics concepts such as gravity, mass, inertia, velocity, acceleration, potential energy, and more! Using Roblox as learning tools, campers utilize various skills to create and customize their own virtual roller coasters. On Friday afternoon, each team gives a demonstration of their final roller coaster designs and hosts an amusement park experience.

Valuable Learning Opportunities in physics, teamwork, digital collaboration, and design!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Roller Coaster Design, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Build.  Engineer.  Design.  Code.

LittleBits uses small magnetic circuit boards that snap together to make amazing electronic devices. Each bit has a specific function such as a button, light, or speaker. The variety of specialized bits means there are thousands of possible combinations allowing for unique inventions! Using the code bit, you’ll learn to code your newly-made hardware using drag and drop programming. You’ll build awesome projects like an electric guitar, a tug of war game, a Morse code machine, or your very own invention! 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include hands-on inventing and an introduction to variables, loops, logic, and functions, and an introduction to the fundamentals of engineering and programming.

Camp Take-Homes: Engineering Camp – Certificate of Excellence, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

The Ultimate Minecraft™ Camp.

At Minecraft™ Camp, utilize your creativity, learn and improve your skills, and work individually or collaboratively in an exclusive virtual world on our own private servers!

*Each camper is required to have a Minecraft Account (Java Edition) for camp.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include individual/multi-player builds, installing and using mods, survival & scratch crafting recipes, customizing Minecraft™ maps, utilizing Redstone & electrical circuits, game design, working with multiplayer servers, building competitions, and weekly Minecraft™ tournaments!

Camp Take-Homes: Camp project(s), Certificate of Excellence – Minecraft Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

The Magic of Minecraft™ at Your Fingertips.

At Minecraft™ – Harry Potter Custom Builds & Events, get immersed in the world of Harry Potter within Minecraft™ by designing and building some of the famous buildings from the Harry Potter universe, using redstone to create magic special effects, as well as using a custom magic plugin to design and create magic Harry Potter-themed mini-games.

*Each camper is required to have a Minecraft Account (Java Edition) for camp.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include building and designing re-creations of Harry Potter builds, utilizing Redstone to design special effects to enhance the builds, going on an epic Harry Potter-themed adventure, experimenting with a custom magic plugin, and using the magic plugin to design custom mini-games for the end of the week!

Camp Take-Homes: Camp project(s), Certificate of Excellence – Harry Potter Minecraft, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

Take Your Minecraft Skills National With New High Flying Events for 2023!

Put your competition skills to the ultimate test in local and national tournaments full of action-packed challenges, team play, and fun! Spend mornings learning and developing skills for tournament competitions, and afternoons engaged in thrilling competitive tournament events both locally and against Lavner Camps Teams throughout the United States! You will also benefit from lessons in Redstone and electrical circuits!

*Each camper is required to have a Minecraft Account (Java Edition) for camp.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include building skills in engineering, improving hand-eye coordination, and gaining experience in teamwork & collaboration. 

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – National Minecraft Tournament, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard, and a National Minecraft Tournament Trophy for Every Participant.

Build Skills.  Compete.  Have Fun.  Repeat.

At Roblox Camp, you will design and create your own 3D worlds. Choosing from a variety of different templates, you can select the type of world and customize your environment. Add awesome features such as drawbridges, scoreboards, clocks, traps, power ups, and customized terrain! With so many options to include, you can create a game that is unique, fast-paced, and fun! Lessons in camp cover LUA Programming to power different features in Roblox. You will also learn how to add characters to their environment and even learn how to hatch their own Roblox pet.

*Campers are required to arrive with their own Roblox account for a PC – they are free to create.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include exposure to building, engineering, and programming, as well as practice collaborating with others in multiplayer servers and tournament competitions! 

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Roblox Game Design Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

WOW Your Friends and Family!

At YouTube® Camp – Video Production, learn the exciting process of creating a successful vlog/video for YouTube®! Identify an audience, create a brand, brainstorm a creative format, produce engaging content, and create at least one YouTube®-style video.

Utilizing the hands-on format of this course, you’ll learn the skills you need to create your own vlog/video for YouTube®. Sample topics may include Minecraft Tutorials, Video Game Walkthroughs, Technology Unboxing, Product Reviews, How-To Videos, Fashion Videos, Travel Vlogs, Lifestyle Tips, and so much more! You’ll receive lots of guidance and instruction from our rockstar instructors and also have the opportunity to collaborate with other passionate campers.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include scripting, acting, filming, using green screens, creating special effects, editing, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: Your YouTube Style Video Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Video Production for YouTube, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Join us for an action-packed week of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math! With exciting and unique topics each day, campers will get exposure to a wide variety of STEAM learning. Check out our topics below!

Monday – (S) Science Labs.

Experience the fun of hands-on learning using our virtual and in-person science labs. Explore some of the most exciting topics in science today!

Tuesday – (T) The Future of Technology.

Have you ever thought about what 2050 will look like? How about 2450? Dive into the next generation ideas, inventions, and advancements, and learn about some of the exceptional women leading the charge in this space!

Wednesday – (E) Engineer like the greats!

After exploring the world of female engineers, you’ll get to choose an engineering track inspired by an influential woman. Maybe you want to build a bridge like Emily Roebling, assemble circuits like Ngalula Sandrine Mubenga, or even operate a robotic arm as Kalpana Chawla did.

Thursday – (A) Bridging Art and Technology.

Create a work of art that honors prominent women from the profession. Women such as Frida Khalo, Aisha Galimbaeva, Augusta Savage, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Georgia O’Keefe, and many more! Re-imagine popular works of art by these notable women. By the end of the week you will have your own artist adaptation in the form of a 3D print!

Friday – (M) The Power of Math. Friday is all about the power of real-world math.

Discover how math can be used to help you do things like start a business, understand basic finance, build problem solving skills, and even identify the patterns behind hit songs. Math is an incredibly powerful tool, and when used the right way, it can help you unlock incredible discoveries and truly change your life!

Calling All Agents. There Is an Impostor Among Us!

Calling all agents. There is an impostor among us! We need you to use your special skills and deductive reasoning to determine who is sus and help us take them down.

Hone your spy skills with special lessons that will teach you how to tell when someone is lying, how to go undetected and gain trust, and other important abilities that every spy needs. Play the hit game Among Us and learn how to solve the case quickly as an expert detective, all while pulling off impressive impostor plays that will shock friends at camp! Learn special strategies, play fun and hilarious settings, and compete in exciting camp tournaments! All competitions will be held in private Lavner Camps Lobbies with supervision.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include developing your in game skills, learning game theory strategies, flexing your logic and critical thinking, collaborating to solve puzzles and codes, and so much more!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Among Us, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Your Mission Awaits.

We’re headed to space! Join Lavner Camps Space Exploration for a week’s worth of fun where you can build, explore, learn, and have a blast! During the week, you’ll be sent on specially developed fun and exciting space missions that will grow your knowledge in physics, rocketry, astronomy, and math. Each day, you’ll receive new challenges and missions that keep camp exciting and fresh. Missions have multiple options for campers of different levels. 

Valuable Learning Opportunities during missions include designing and 3D printing spaceships, rocket launching with Roblox, building a rover, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: 3D Printed Spaceship, Certificate of Excellence – Space Exploration, 2023 Special Edition T-Shirt,  and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard

Explore New Missions for 2023 at the World’s Leading Spy Tech Camp!

In this action-packed camp, take your technology skills to the next level by participating in exciting spy missions throughout the week. Agents will fly virtual drones, create surveillance systems, encrypt messages, and much more! In Roblox, test your spy skills in games with other campers like our one of a kind Capture The Flag game, iSpy, Hide and Seek, and others. Each new topic is utilized for a spy mission, creating a one-of-a-kind camp experience that enhances skills in technology, leadership, and more!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining exposure to data analysis, logical thinking, high-tech collaboration, Morse Code, and Scratch or Python Coding!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Spy Tech Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

3D Modeling & 3D Printing Will Change The Future.

Welcome inventors!

At 3D Printing Camp, 3D Model and Print items that show your true passion! Using cutting-edge 3D printers, you will model prototypes, mod existing designs, and print them in 3D! Throughout the week you will learn about scalability and how designs can be easily uploaded and printed for mass consumption. During the printing process, discover what it’s like to operate, clean, and care for a 3D Printer.

This summer you will get to choose your favorite track from our list of exclusive 3D Modeling and Printing themes. Summer 2023 is all about choosing what YOU want!

Our epic themes for this summer include:

Interior Design
3D Model and Print your own collection of mini-furniture for a doll house: tables, chairs, paintings, accent pieces, and more! 5-7 pieces total.

Go Green
Live life cleaner with your 3D prints! Create items that help the environment or recycling (bee hotel, toothpaste tube squeezer (to reduce waste), turbine water saver and more!

Spy Gadgets
Top secret creations. Design 3D Models of three miniature gadgets that do not currently exist but would help top spies succeed in their missions in the year 2050 and beyond.

Wild About Nature
Plant and animal lovers rejoice! Design and print your favorite plants or animals.

Outer Space
You’ll get to 3D Model and Print a small spaceship, space rover, ignition key and more.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include conceptualizing, planning, designing, customizing, and improving your own product. 

Camp Take-Homes: 3D Printed Projects and Design Files, a Certificate of Excellence – 3D Printing, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Bring Your Creations to Life!

Welcome inventors! Take your Minecraft and Roblox creations to the next level (and dimension), and receive 3D prints of your builds! Finally a chance to see your builds in real-life! Your printed items will truly be one-of-a-kind when you design inside the Minecraft and Roblox platforms and print at camp.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include conceptualizing, planning, designing, customizing, and improving your own product. 

Camp Take-Homes: 3D Printed Projects and Design Files, a Certificate of Excellence – 3D Printing with Minecraft & Roblox, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Welcome to the exciting world of digital art!

Join us to learn how to create beautiful pieces of art using a digital platform. Sketch, draw, paint, shadow, style, and much more!

At camp, you can use your trackpad, mouse, or stylus (optional) to draw a self-portrait, paint a still life, create anime figures, draw a favorite doll or create your own dollhouse, create a new Pokemon character, create a cartoon script with text, paint landscapes, and much more. Learn lots of tips and tricks from our instructors, and learn the art of creating shadowing, textures, 2D/3D objects, spacing, utilizing color, and much more! With hundreds of types of pencils, colored pencils, paint brushes and more, you can explore tons of options when creating your stunning images.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include developing a multitude of skills in digital art software, flexing your creativity as you plan and design your very own art pieces, working with peers and instructors to give and receive feedback, and so much more!

Please allow approximately 3-5 weeks to receive your framed piece of art in the mail!

Camp Take-Homes: Framed Art Piece, Portfolio of your Design Work, Certificate of Excellence – Digital Art, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Invent the Next Great and Android App.

Learn how to plan, design, code, and publish your very own apps! Whether you want to create a game, photo editor, GPS, to-do list, or something completely different, App Development Camp is the place to get started! The software is user-friendly, making this camp an excellent choice for those looking to learn programming or develop awesome apps with little coding experience.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining coding skills, improving logical thinking capacity, boosting creativity, and building self-confidence!

Camp Take-Homes: Your own apps, Certificate of Excellence – App Development Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Create the Next Big Brand.

Express your creativity and learn practical and technical computer skills by launching your very own brand and apparel line! Using graphic design software, complement your creativity with the proper technical skills to produce designs that communicate messages and leave lasting visual impressions. Create your own custom designs for a pair of white Converse sneakers and two shirts!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining knowledge of typography and pure design elements like colors, shapes, and images, as well as maximizing design skills to organize and convey information, and produce clean and effective work products.

Camp Take-Homes: Custom Converse Sneakers with your customized design, Portfolio of your Design Work, Certificate of Excellence – Graphic Design with Converse, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Tell Your Story.

Custom Hoodie?  Check.  Custom T-Shirt?  Check.  Let’s Go!

Express your creativity and learn practical and technical design skills to create your own custom brand and awesome apparel. Craft cool design concepts, make a portfolio, and add your favorite designs to your very own custom hoodie and T-Shirt.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include enhancing technical graphic design skills, building self-confidence, expressing yourself, and owning the design process. 

Camp Take-Homes: Custom Hoodie and Custom T-Shirt (Please allow 3-5 weeks for delivery), Portfolio of your Design Work, Certificate of Excellence – Graphic Design, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt,  and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Calling All Future Hollywood Stars

Lots of NEW Film Concepts & Project Ideas for Summer 2023!

Welcome to the exciting world of Filmmaking, where you’ll learn how to complete a film project from start to finish. Whether in front of the camera or behind the scenes, it is always important to understand and appreciate all aspects of production. At Filmmaking Camp, you’ll have the chance to experience many parts of the process!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining hands-on experience in the filmmaking process as you ideate and create a script, develop characters, rehearse lines, act, shoot footage, learn how to use special effects, edit film, and produce a final copy of your work! 

Camp Take-Homes: Film Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Filmmaking, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Build Skills.  Design.  Code.  Repeat.
New Projects and Competitions for 2023!

Roblox is an amazing platform that allows you to design and play unique and fun games. This course focuses on creating your very own obbys. An obby, short for obstacle course, is a series of platforms and challenges that players have to jump through and navigate correctly to reach an end goal. You’ll learn how to design and model a course like this in a 3-dimensional environment.

Once you have created their first Obby, you’ll learn how to customize it by changing colors, creating moving platforms and more.

In this course, we also focus on programming and creating games using Roblox Studio and the programming language Lua. Lua is a high-level programming language that we can use to code features like traps, power-ups, scoreboards, character movement, and more in Roblox!

You’ll also get the chance to participate in fun games and challenges each day. With a variety of fun Roblox games and a little competition, campers will have a blast and learn special tricks and strategies along the way.

*Campers are required to arrive with their own Roblox account for a PC – they are free to create.

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Learn to make your own games, Become an expert at a variety of Roblox games, learn to code using Lua.

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Roblox Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

Design Games Like a Pro!

At Game Design Camp, you will go through the process of creating a video game – brainstorming, planning, character design, level design, programming, user interface design and much more! After learning the Graphical User Interface in GameMaker™: Studio, begin to plan your game by crafting a storyline and developing characters using the advanced, built-in, digital painting software. Once your characters are created, learn about level design and lay out floor plans with an easy-to-use, efficient tiling technique that allows for excellent control and precision. Once the basic visuals are established,  begin to program the character movement and interactions within their game. Offering a vast database of game design concepts, and sharp graphics, GameMaker™ is a great step towards professional level design and an even bigger step towards top-level creativity and innovation!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include creating an incredible look, feel, and appeal for a game, working with professional level software, and boosting your coding skills!

Camp Take-Homes: Game Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Game Design Academy, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Embrace The Power of Information Technology and Get a Head Start in the World of IT

Are you a tech savvy kid looking to explore careers in a rapidly growing industry? If so, this course is perfect for you!  You’ll learn about the importance of IT and how it powers schools, companies, and the world while becoming immersed in hands-on, IT projects that allow you to build skills and have fun. From cybersecurity to digital animation and the Internet of Things (IoT), you’ll have the opportunity to explore many avenues of information technology. Learn the basics of computer engineering, operating systems, input and output systems, video and audio innovations, and so much more! Project-based learners rejoice as you tinker with the inside of laptops and various software tools. You’ll also learn how to solve real world problems using the skills you acquire at this IT course.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include exposure to IT security, computer architecture, digital animation, creative problem-solving, and computer programming. Better yet, you’ll gain these skills through problem-based learning – a founding principle of STEM education.

Course Take-Homes: A 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard, Certificate of Excellence – Lavner IT Academy, and course projects.

Secure your data and your future!

There is no better time than now to learn how to protect your networks, devices, and programs from damage or unauthorized access. At Cybersecurity camp you will dive into the world of cryptography, encryption, and data security in order to secure and defend your online world.

Maximize your cybersecurity skills! Learn the ins and outs of the global network, create and decode ciphers, develop a keylogger, compete in coding challenges, and so much more! All levels of computer aficionados are welcome as Python™, one of the fastest growing programming languages in use today, is accessible to anyone with a passion for IT!

Valuable Learning Opportunities  include gaining an understanding of the Cybersecurity Industry, learning how to encrypt and decrypt messages in Python, practicing cryptography, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: A 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard,  and Certificate of Excellence – Cyber Security

Take Your Minecraft Skills to the Next Level.

As one of the world’s leading Minecraft™ Camps, we offer Minecraft™ World Builder for campers with Minecraft™ experience who want to dive deeper into intermediate/advanced gameplay and map construction. You will work in teams to complete large-scale cooperative projects, and participate in survival challenges and mini-game competitions. Learn how to do cool things like install and work with mods, make advanced Redstone circuits, and use command blocks. Each day, you will be presented with a new survival challenge and a new construction goal. On Thursdays and Fridays build mini-games and participate in weekly tournaments! The excitement is off the charts!

*Each camper is required to have a Minecraft Account (Java Edition) for camp.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include building survival skills, advanced Redstone lessons, learning how to use command blocks, high level teamwork and communication, and tournament competitions!

Camp Take-Homes: Camp project(s), Certificate of Excellence – Minecraft Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

Make an Impact With Python™.

Code cool graphics, games, and programs! Benefit from clean syntax and other streamlined attributes within Python™ that provide a new approach to learning and understanding programming. With Python™, you can often write code quicker, allowing you to produce results in a shorter period of time.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include practicing essential programming concepts, developing logical thinking skills, and coding impressive and entertaining projects taught throughout the week!

Camp Take-Homes: At least one Python Project, Certificate of Excellence – Python Coding Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Join us to learn about some of the most exciting tech stocks on the market like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, Tesla, and more! Explore the world of Big Tech, the growth of their industries, and some of their most powerful contributions/influences in the world today.

Tech Stocks, Trading Simulations & Competitions: Learn how to analyze a company’s financials, study historical performance, and calculate P/E ratios, earnings per share, dividends, and valuations. Use $100,000 of “play money” on Monday and buy/sell stock throughout the week, with the goal of selling for a profit on Friday. Also, learn about strategies for holding longer term investments, the historical performance of tech stocks over time (including bubbles), and collaborate with fellow campers to envision the future.

Big Data – Analytics & Challenges: Tech companies thrive on the collection of data to help them make better decisions and optimize the experiences of its users. What kind of innovations are utilized in this space and what are some of the successes and implications of these practices? At camp, learn how to work with sample data from case studies and compete in fun and exciting analytics challenges.

Team Project – Problem Solvers: Many tech companies have become household names by solving problems and making everyday life more efficient. Amazon connects buyers and sellers while delivering products to your door quickly and cheaply, Uber connects drivers and passengers (no more hailing cabs in the rain), and Tesla creates electric cars that are not dependent on oil and better for the environment. At camp, with a team, we challenge you to identify a problem in the world that you would like to solve, create a solution using a technology or technologies of choice, and create a roadmap for launch, innovation and growth!

Join us to take a deep dive into this powerful industry, improve your knowledge in an array of topics, and have fun working with fellow campers!

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Learn  about the Stock Market, Study Tech Stocks, Gain Understanding of the Tech Industry, Learn Technical Trading Practices, Track your own Stocks, Learn Analytics, Solve Real-World Problems, and Participate in our Weekly Stock Challenge!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Tech Stocks and Digital Innovation, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Calling all future medical professionals!

STEM plays a huge role in the research, development, and practice of medicine. From understanding how viruses attach to cells, to learning how to better fight them, to 3D modeling prosthetics that help change lives, there’s lots of science, technology, engineering, and math that goes into modern medicine. Whether you’re using math to model the potential impact of a pandemic or learning about the technology behind mRNA vaccines, you’ll have to call upon a number of STEM disciplines to achieve the best possible results and help the most people.

In this camp, you’ll be immersed in interesting disciplines and have the chance to explore the fascinating advancements and the latest technology in the world of medicine. Hands-on activities will help you to put concepts into practice. You’ll get to 3D model a prosthetic, perform a virtual simulated surgery, write code, and more.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include developing skills in cutting edge topics including robotics, 3D modeling, and coding, increasing your understanding of new and widely used medical technologies, collaborating with peers with a passion for STEM, and so much more!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – STEM and Medicine, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Space Enthusiasts Wanted.  Rocket Scientists Made Here.

Welcome to Planet Kerbal, where you create, direct, and build up your own space program! Join us to explore, innovate, and learn rocket science using the critically acclaimed simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Design your own spaceships, conduct experiments to unlock new features, and launch & pilot your own multi-stage rockets within a physics-accurate space flight simulation. 

In addition to creating and flying rockets in Kerbal Space Program, campers also have the chance to build and customize their own space station using Roblox’s incredible game design studio. Advanced campers may even get a chance to program their rockets to fly!

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Design rockets, space stations, planes, and more. Learn about rocket history, physics, and how we navigate space. In Planet Kerbal: explore galaxies, visit planets and encounter scenarios you may have never imagined!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Space & Rockets, 2023 Special Edition T-Shirt, and Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard

Create Your Own AI Personal Assistant.  Learn Code Breaking. Change The Game with AI.

Explore AI topics through engaging and fun hands-on experiences with artificially intelligent robots, programs, digital assistants, and code! 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include customizing a digital assistant, interacting with and discovering how to program Codey Rocky and Sphero, exploring Markov chains and code breaking, programming your own virtual battle bot, learning how to make a pathfinding AI game, and even more!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Artificial Intelligence Camp, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Take Your Among Us Skills to the Next Level.

In this camp, you’ll learn how to break down, study, and improve your gameplay. You will learn how to use your observation skills and deductive reasoning in a variety of games and social experiments to determine the best plays and learn how to win!

Play the hit game Among Us and learn tips and tricks to help go undetected and beat your friends with 200 IQ plays or sus out the impostor and win the game! You’ll play Among Us, learn strategies to improve your gameplay, and compete in fun camp tournaments. All competitions will be held in private Lavner Camps Lobbies with supervision. 

We will also learn how to solve logic games, count cards, and explore fascinating experiments to see how people act and why. Examining strategies like these can help you succeed in gameplay and beyond. Understanding and solving logic games teaches you how to think critically and use deductive reasoning – skills which are useful everywhere in life!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include increasing your powers of observation and deductive reasoning, developing new strategies in gameplay, expanding your understanding of logic puzzles and theories, collaborating with peers, and so much more!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – Among Us Camp with Strategy and Game Theory, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Next-Level Robotics.

Using VEX® IQ , this camp offers the next level of hands-on learning in Robotics. VEX® IQ allows you to build complex robots with tons of motors (12 ports!), advanced gears and pulley systems, high-tech sensors, and enhanced controllability. VEX® IQ robots also make use of both a vertical programming language similar to Scratch, and ROBOTC, the standard for educational robotics and competitions. This gives you experience using the same programs used by middle school, high school, and even college robotics teams nationwide! 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include developing skills in mechanics, engineering, and logical thinking.

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence -VEX Robotics Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Learn In-Demand Web Design Skills.

At Web Design Camp, you can learn how to create and customize your own website using WordPress!

With the ability to choose from a variety of templates, design a website for an area of interest, such as a business concept, a potential non-profit, a restaurant, a sports commentary site, a food blog, or an art portfolio site! Once you solidify your concept, select a theme and lay out your site. Next, add text and graphics, making up the primary components of the website. After the basics of the website are established, learn how to code in HTML to edit text on webpages and design for various screen sizes on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices. 

Please Note: Campers are required to come to camp with a verified WordPress account (which can be created for free on the WordPress website).

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining experience in HTML coding, graphics, fonts, page layouts, plugins and more!

Camp Take-Homes: Your Very Own Website, A Certificate of Excellence – Web Design, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

WOW Your Friends and Family!

At YouTube® Camp – Content Creators, learn the exciting process of creating a successful vlog/video for YouTube®! Identify an audience, create a brand, brainstorm a creative format, produce engaging content, and create at least one YouTube®-style video.

Utilizing the hands-on format of this course, you’ll learn the skills you need to create your own vlog/video for YouTube®. Sample topics may include Minecraft Tutorials, Video Game Walkthroughs, Technology Unboxing, Product Reviews, How-To Videos, Fashion Videos, Travel Vlogs, Lifestyle Tips, and so much more! You’ll receive lots of guidance and instruction from our rockstar instructors and also have the opportunity to collaborate with other passionate campers.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include scripting, acting, filming, using green screens, creating special effects, editing, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: Your YouTube Style Video Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Video Production for YouTube, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Join us for an action-packed week of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math! With exciting and unique topics each day, campers will get exposure to a wide variety of STEAM learning. Check out our topics below!

Monday – (S) Science. Start the week by diving into stories of women who have changed the way we think about our world and environment. Follow in the steps of visionaries from Jane Goodall to Greta Thunberg creating a plan to change the world! Through it all, develop a model and build a working solar car with a twist! 

Tuesday – (T) The Future of Technology.
Have you ever thought about what 2050 will look like? How about 2450? Dive into the next generation ideas, inventions, and advancements, and learn about some of the exceptional women leading the charge in this space!

Wednesday – (E) Engineering! Remember that solar car we built yesterday? Dr. Shirley Jackson’s innovative research on subatomic particles ultimately led to the invention of solar cells. From Kevlar, to monopoly women invent AMAZING things everyday. As we learn about more of these inventions, design an invention of your own and then 3D print it in real time! This activity allows you to develop skills in not only our 3D design software, but also advocacy and presenting as you pitch your invention to the group!

Thursday – (A) Bridging Art and Technology. Create a work of art that honors prominent women from the profession. Women such as Frida Khalo, Aisha Galimbaeva, Augusta Savage, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Georgia O’Keefe, and many more! Re-imagine popular works of art by these notable women. Using powerful digital art software and new skills learned in camp create a masterful piece in homage to the greats! 

Friday – (M) The Power of Math. Friday is all about the power of real-world math, and no one knows math like GIRLS! From pioneering computer programmer Grace Hopper, to human supercomputer Dorthy Vaungh, you’ll learn the likes of amazing women who changed the world with their knowledge of math and programming. Emulate these amazing women by diving into a coding project of your own using python.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include diving in to the interdisciplinary world of STEAM through hands-on experiences, increasing your knowledge and understanding of empowering women in different fields, practicing self-advocacy and presenting your ideas, and building community with other awesome girls!

Camp Take-Homes: Certificate of Excellence – All-Girls STEAM, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

For the Aspiring Novelist.

Set in the format of a writing workshop, campers focus on developing and writing their own fictional short stories. Once you brainstorm your ideas, pre-writing will continue by researching the topic, outlining the story, setting the scenes in detail, and developing characters. After lots of writing, workshopping, and revising, you’ll have a short story piece that they can be proud of!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include learning about the writing process, accepting and giving feedback, and how to utilize one’s creative ideas!

Camp Take-Homes: Camp Journal and Writing Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Creative Writing Camp, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Step Up in the World of Coding.

C++ is used everywhere from video game engines and video editing software, to operating systems and office applications. Engineers at companies like Google, Facebook, YouTube®, and Amazon all make use of C++ in their back-end systems, and now you can too! 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include utilizing loops, functions, objects, and conditionals; printing text onto the computer screen; receiving input from the user; and working with graphics. You’ll also learn core principles of programming including memory management and object-oriented programming concepts. 

Camp Take-Homes: Camp Projects, a Certificate of Excellence – C++ Camp, a 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard. 

Be Your Own GM.  Learn Advanced Stats.  Dominate Fantasy Sports.

Learn skills in sports analytics, become a truly knowledgeable sports fan, improve your skills in fantasy sports, and maybe launch a career in the world of sports one day! You will learn how to make decisions based on statistics to organize a team and evaluate players. In addition to learning how to analyze stats and make theories and assertions, you’ll participate in an All-Camp Fantasy Baseball League to put your skills to work!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include getting experience in statistics, creating a Java™ program that assigns a Player Efficiency Rating (PER), and a chance to explore an exciting and fast-growing industry!

Camp Take-Homes:  Camp Projects – Java PER Model,  Certificate of Excellence – Sports Analytics, 2023 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.