Tech Revolution STEM Summer Camps at New York University

Calling all Builders! 

If you love LEGO®s, this is the camp for you! Work together with other campers in a fun and friendly environment building with LEGOs, blocks, and other materials! With thousands of pieces at each of our locations, you’ll have the resources and tools to build anything you can imagine – and we’ll help you do it!

This camp is a ton of fun and educational too! We’ll teach you the fundamentals of building and what can make structures and designs more sturdy. We’ll even have some competitions to see who can build the strongest structure! We’ll also use structures and cars to talk about forces and energy so that you understand what makes things move or what makes them hold steady.

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Learn Teamwork, Make Friends, Unleash Your Creativity, Achieve Real Learning Outcomes, Watch Your Ideas Come To Life.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – LEGO Camp-Builders Workshop, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, VIP Camp Lanyard

Learn the Basics, Establish a Foundation, and Get a Head Start in Coding!

Using and becoming comfortable with computers is one of the most valuable skills that a child can learn to get ahead. Getting an early start with computers can help you succeed in school and develop critical thinking skills that open up endless possibilities. In Computer Skills 101, you’ll get a head start learning to type, using computer programs, and coding with Scratch™!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include learning how to use the mouse and keyboard, getting started with computer programs like Sketchpad and text editors, learning basic coding logic with Scratch, and learning about safe computer practices. 

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Computer Skills, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Success in Coding Starts Here

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 is easy to understand. By moving and combining blocks of code, you will be able to develop your own super cool animation projects. You can even make your animations interactive by including instructions, designing the 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 & design skills. 

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Coding 101, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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.

In this camp, we’ll show you what you can do with all of these tools by making awesome projects and games from asteroids, to automatic code-breakers, to Mario-style platformer games. We can also show you how to use some of the more advanced tools Scratch has to offer, such as lists and custom blocks, to create high score tables and more complex behavior. All in all, Scratch is a great language to hone your skills, make awesome games, and have some fun!

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Learn to program, create awesome games, improve your critical thinking and math skills

Prerequisite: Students should have attended at least one session of our Scratch Coding 101 course 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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Scratch Coding 102, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Don’t Just Play Games…Create Them

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

All campers should arrive at camp with a GDevelop account. Accounts are free to create at https://editor.gdevelop.io/

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Intro to Game Design, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Become the Ultimate Pokémon Trainer!

Discover the secrets of Pokémon™, while creating the ultimate team. Learn strategies to excel in friendly battles and emerge victorious! Join in Pokémon card games using your own decks and online simulators at camp, in addition to competing against AI and other campers! You’ll also learn how to take your Pokémon skills to the next level by learning what Pokémon types and moves are effective against your opponents. Each day, discover new and improved strategies to maximize your Pokémon team’s potential. Exciting tournaments take place each week!

At the beginning of the week, you’ll receive your very own set of Pokémon cards and a binder to hold them. Throughout the week, you’ll get to open booster packs, trade with other campers, and use your cards to play with other campers as well. At the end of the week, you can take home your binder with all of the Pokémon cards you have collected.

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, keeping a collection, trading cards, and more! At the end of the week, campers can go home with boosted self-confidence and a deeper understanding of this very popular game.

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

Welcome to Our Robotics Tournament Camp Weeks!

Do you want to design your own battle robot and lead it to victory in our epic Robowars competitions? At the Lavner Robotics League with LEGO® Robots, you can design, build, customize, and battle robots every day!

Build Awesome Robots.
By the end of day one, you will be battling and racing with your finished prototypes! 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 add-ons, defenses, and upgrades to make your robots stronger, tougher, or faster.

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

Valuable Learning Opportunities include hands-on building, learning coding skills, epic competitions, creative problem solving, working as part of a team, and much more!

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Lavner Robotics League Trophy, Certificate of Excellence – Robotics League, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Invent.  Build. Code. Compete. Have Fun.

At our robotics camp, you will learn the fundamentals of robotics by getting hands-on experience with LEGO® Robots. Explore the principles of robotics and coding by imagining and creating your own robots, in addition to following instructions for specific robots provided by LEGO. You will then be able to add a wide variety of sensors and motors to your robot before programming it. Participate in a camp tournament called ROBOWARS on Friday each week. 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include hands-on building, learning coding skills, completing challenges, working as part of a team, and much more! 

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – LEGO Robotics, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Calling all budding engineers and tech enthusiasts! 

Join us for an exciting week-long camp where you’ll learn the fundamentals of robotics and coding using the popular Arduino® platform. Together, we’ll build a robot, from designing the hardware to writing the software that brings it to life.

Our expert instructors will guide you through hands-on projects, teaching you essential programming concepts and robotics principles. By the end of the camp, you’ll have created a personalized robot that you can take home and continue to explore and modify.

This camp is perfect for kids who are curious about technology, enjoy problem-solving, and want to have fun while learning new skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to become a robotics engineer and bring your imagination to life!

All campers will take home their robot at the end of camp. No prior coding knowledge is required for this camp!

Imagination Brought to Life

Build and digitally design roller coasters using FAO Schwarz® kits, Thames & Kosmos™ kits, and Roblox™. In addition to having tons of fun and building skills in design and construction, campers also learn about physics concepts such as gravity, mass, inertia, velocity, acceleration, potential energy, and more!

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Roller Coaster Design, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Be the Next Great Engineer

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 will learn to code their newly-made hardware using drag and drop programming. Build awesome projects like an electric guitar, a tug of war game, a Morse code machine, or your own invention! 

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Engineering Camp, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include individual/multiplayer building, installing and using mods, playing survival & scratch crafting recipes, customizing Minecraft maps, utilizing Redstone & electrical circuits, learning game design, working with multiplayer servers, and competing in building competitions and weekly Minecraft tournaments!

All campers must arrive with their own Minecraft Java™ edition accounts.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp projects, Certificate of Excellence – Minecraft, a 2025 Limited Edition camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include building and designing re-creations of Harry Potter builds, utilizing Redstone to design special effects to enhance the builds, learning about plugins, 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!

All campers must arrive with their own Minecraft Java™ edition accounts.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp projects, Certificate of Excellence – Harry Potter Minecraft, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Serious Minecraft Competitions, Serious Fun

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 other teams throughout the United States! You will also benefit from lessons in Redstone and electrical circuits!

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

All campers must arrive with their own Minecraft Java™ edition accounts.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – National Minecraft Tournament, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, VIP Camp Lanyard, and a Minecraft Trophy for Every Participant

Game On!

Represent Your Town in our National Competition

Work together throughout the week to practice virtual collaboration while preparing for the national competitions. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, you will compete against other teams across the country. Learn teamwork, cooperation, and the importance of sharing and implementing ideas, as you compete in tournament events including Ninja Obstacle Courses, Epic Survival challenges, Battle Blox, and more. All competitions are held on our own private VIP servers.

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

Valuable Learning Opportunities include teamwork & communication, building problem solving skills, and mastering digital communication. 

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, a Roblox Camp Trophy, Certificate of Excellence – National Roblox Tournament, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

The World’s Leading Roblox Camp

New Projects and Competitions for 2025!

At Roblox™ Camp, you will design and create your own 3D worlds. Choosing from a variety of different templates, you can select your 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! You can also learn how to add characters to your environment and how to hatch your own Roblox pet. 

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

*Campers are required to arrive with their own Roblox account for a PC.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Roblox with Game Design, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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.

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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Your YouTube Style Video Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Video Production for YouTube, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Join us for an action-packed week of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math!

Experience the power of STEAM in an all-girls setting. Each day, we will dive deeply into an aspect of STEAM and at least one famous woman in STEAM!

Join us for an action-packed week of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math! With exciting and unique topics each day, you’ll get exposure to a wide variety of important STEAM disciplines, ALL of which have been pioneered and influenced by amazing women! With inherently interdisciplinary topics, see how much S.T.E.A.M we can explore in an adventure-filled week.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – All-Girls STEAM, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Create Your Own AI Superhero and Save the World

Artificial intelligence is an exciting new forefront of technology that is changing the way we live. At Camp, you’ll explore cutting-edge AI topics through engaging and fun hands-on experiences with artificially intelligent robots, machine learning programs, and code!

In this action-packed camp, build your tech skills by using Codey Rocky® robots and Sphero BOLT® to carry out a series of fun missions and save the world! Compare and contrast AI models, while discussing AI training. Is ChatGPT really the best large language model? Use machine learning to understand how AI is trained on data sets and to discuss bias in AI. Finally dive into a discussion on AI ethics before trying your hand at developing an AI text generator! Text-based and drag-and-drop programming is available, making this course appropriate for campers of all levels.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include building skills in artificial intelligence, machine learning, AI ethics, robotics, coding, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – AI Camp, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

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, go undetected and gain trust, hide in plain sight and many other important abilities that every spy needs. Along the way, you will learn about the brain. Use your knowledge to improve your memory and focus!

Play the hit game Among Us™ and learn how to solve the case quickly as an expert detective, and pull off impressive impostor plays that will shock friends at camp! Learn special strategies, play fun and hilarious settings, and try out awesome new roles and settings with mods! All competitions will be held in private lobbies with supervision.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include becoming a master detective and expert impostor, learning about game theory and secret codes, designing your own spy logo and more!

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Spy Tech with Among Us, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Your Mission Awaits

NASA. SpaceX®. BoeingSM. Space is one of the most cutting-edge industries today and could have a huge impact on the future. Many countries, universities, and private companies are heavily investing in space research, discovery, and travel, and now you can too!

We’re headed to space! Join Lavner Education’s Space Exploration for a week’s worth of fun during which campers can build, explore, learn, and have a blast! Learn about life in space, 3D print a rocket, use Roblox™ to create a space station and learn rocketry, build a Mars rover and more!

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, 3D Printed Spaceship, Certificate of Excellence – Space Exploration, 2025 Special Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Are you ready to dive into the exciting world of digital fashion? 

Join us for an exciting week-long camp where you’ll learn the latest techniques in digital fashion design and create your own unique collections.

Craft Your Own Wardrobe.  After learning about the latest fashion trends in Los Angeles, you will plan out and design your projects. Learn how to create clothing patterns online that you can print and use for yourself. You’ll learn to use graphic design software to design fabric patterns that you can use in your clothing designs. Create your own fashion logo or illustration that will be placed on a tote bag. Develop your own portfolio with a mood board and designs for your first fashion line.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include designing a unique and personal brand, becoming a project manager, using design software, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: Your Custom Tote Bag, A Lavner-branded USB Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Fashion Camp, 2025 Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Lavner Camps VIP Lanyard.

Calling all problem-solvers and puzzle enthusiasts! 

Join us for a week-long adventure at our STEAM Escape Room Camp. Each day, you’ll work with your team to crack codes, solve puzzles, and decipher clues to break-out from a different STEAM-themed escape room.

At the end of the week, you’ll have the opportunity to design and build your own escape room. You’ll work with your team to come up with a creative theme, design puzzles, and create the necessary props and clues.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include increased problem-solving skills, confidence and resilience, STEAM knowledge, and owning the design process!

New Action-Packed Missions for 2024 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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, a Spy Tech – Certificate of Excellence, a 2024 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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’ll 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 very own pathway from our list of exclusive 3D Modeling and Printing themes. Summer 2025 is all about choosing what YOU want to create!

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, 3D Printed Projects and Design Files, a Certificate of Excellence – 3D Printing, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Inventors Wanted!

Welcome creators! At 3D Printing Camp for Minecraft™ & Roblox™, take your Minecraft and Roblox creations to the next level, and receive 3D prints of your builds. Finally, you’ll have the chance to see your builds in real life! Your printed items will truly be one of a kind when you design with the Minecraft and Roblox platforms and 3D print at camp.

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, 3D Printed Projects and Design Files, Certificate of Excellence – 3D Printing with Minecraft & Roblox, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

All campers must arrive with their own Minecraft Java™ edition accounts.

Invent the Next Great Android App

Learn how to plan, design, code, and publish your very own apps! Whether you want to create a game, photo editor, 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.

*Campers must come to camp with a Google™ Account and password.

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Your own apps, Certificate of Excellence – App Development, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Don’t Just Play Game, Create Them

Godot™ Engine is a powerful and flexible game engine that’s available for anyone to use! Learn how to design and program games with a professional tool that is easy to learn.

This camp is for all levels, whether you are just getting started in programming, or you have already made games and want to add to your skills. Godot also lets you create games in 2D or 3D and publish your games to Mac, PC, Android, or even consoles! 

1000s of games have been made and published with Godot Engine. Will yours be next?

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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Game Design with Godot Engine, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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 powerful graphic design software, campers learn to complement their natural 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™ or Vans™ sneakers and a custom tote bag!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining knowledge of typography, using design elements like colors, shapes, and images, and design skills to organize and convey information, strengthening conceptual skills, and producing clean and effective products.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Custom Converse or Vans Sneakers with your customized design, your own Custom Tote Bag, Portfolio of your Design Work, Certificate of Excellence – Graphic Design, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Custom Hoodie, Custom T-Shirt, and Custom Tote Bag (Please allow 3-6 weeks for delivery), Portfolio of Your Design Work, Certificate of Excellence – Graphic Design, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, VIP Camp Lanyard

Create Awesome Minecraft Videos

Do you want to create YouTube®style Minecraft™ videos and Vlog like a pro?! Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned YouTuber, join us to take your digital movie production skills to the next level!

While gaining hands-on experience, you may work individually or be placed into teams to create your very own YouTube-style Minecraft video project(s). Some project ideas include let’s plays, walkthroughs, mod reviews, PvP tips, and how-to videos! What’s even more fun is that you get to do it in a friendly and collaborative camp setting with other aspiring Minecraft vloggers!

Valuable Learning Opportunities include ideating and creating content, researching, scripting, filming, using screen capture software, adding special effects, promoting a channel, gaining likes and shares, understanding the importance of digital citizenship and safe practices when using the internet, and lots more!

All campers must arrive with their own Minecraft Java™ edition accounts.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Your Videos, Certificate of Excellence – Minecraft for YouTube, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Put your competition skills to the ultimate test in a national STEAM tournament full of action-packed challenges, team play, and fun! 

Join us for an exhilarating week-long STEAM camp where you’ll put your creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork skills to the test. Each day of the camp will be themed around a different letter in STEAM. Spend mornings learning and developing skills for tournament competitions in the afternoons, some of which will take place against other Camp Tech Revolution locations across the United States!

Throughout the camp, you’ll participate in a series of exciting challenges that integrate all five areas of STEAM. Work with your team to design and build innovative projects, show your creativity, and solve complex problems.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining a stronger knowledge of STEAM, building collaboration and teamwork skills, seeing real-world applications of STEAM and developing confidence and resilience during competitions!

Take your chess game to the next level. 

This camp is for recreational players who love chess! Learn everything from openings to endgames, midgame strategies, tactics, positional play and more to improve your game.

Practice your opening, midgame, and end game and study classic games! This will prevent you from falling for traps and help you develop a repertoire that leads to positions with which you are comfortable.

Chess is a mathematical thinking game that strengthens your executive functioning skills including planning, abstract thinking, and complex decision making. These are the types of skills that are directly transferable to real life applications, such as studying and succeeding in school, creative problem solving, and preparing and maintaining concentration.

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Improve your chess game, learn to think logically and critically, learn how to develop plans, and improve your calculations and your endgames.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Chess Camp, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Time to Test Your Chess Skills!

This tournament is for recreational and rated players! Put your competition skills to the ultimate test in local and team tournaments full of action-packed challenges, team play, and fun.

Spend mornings learning and developing skills for tournament competitions. This includes openings, end games, puzzles, and positional play. Tournaments are primarily held in the afternoons, with local tournaments taking place Monday, and Tuesday, and The Team Championship taking place Wednesday through Friday.

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Improve your chess game, learn to think logically and critically, learn how to develop plans, and improve your calculations and your endgames.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Chess Camp, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Change the Game with Python and the Power of Coding

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 write code more quickly, allowing you to produce project results in a shorter period of time.

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

Camp Take-Homes: At least one Python Project, a Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Coding with Python, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Design Games Like a Pro!

Discover 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, you will 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, you will learn about level design and lay out floor plans with an easy-to-use, efficient tiling technique that allows for excellent control and precision. After establishing the basic visuals, you will program the character movement and interactions within your 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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Game Design with GameMaker, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Build Skills.  Design.  Code.  Repeat.
New Projects and Competitions for 2025!

Roblox™ is an amazing program that lets you 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 your 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 you 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, you 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, and more!

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Roblox with Custom Obbys & Lua Coding, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Create Your Own Machine Learning Program & Change the Game with AI

Artificial intelligence is an exciting new forefront of technology that is changing the way we live. At Lavner Tech Rev, you’ll explore cutting-edge AI topics through engaging and fun hands-on experiences with artificially intelligent robots, programs, generative AI and code!

Students will spend time engaging with AI, ChatGPT, and more using a variety of hands-on activities. Through discussions and interactions with AI, students will learn how this technology works including exploring generative AI’s strengths and limitations. Topics may include training models for AI and bias in training AI, comparing and contrasting AI models, AI ethics, and GANs.

Valuable Learning Opportunities: Exploring AI training models, understanding bias in AI, understanding the difference between machine learning, deep learning and AI, learning how to make a pathfinding AI game, and even more!

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Artificial Intelligence, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt,  and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Grow Your Entrepreneurial Spirit

Need a new app to track your health? Want a better way to communicate with your friends? Interested in starting a dog walking business? Bring your ideas to our exciting Business Startup Camp and begin developing your own mission-driven company. Study some of the biggest successes and failures in business as you plan for your initial sales pitch!

  Study Business Startups: Read and evaluate real case studies of some of the most prominent startups to date. Why were they successful? What did they do that helped them make big strides in their industry when other companies failed? What takeaways can you utilize from their accomplishments and pain points to help you be successful in your own startup?

What goes into a startup from start to finish: Take a deep dive into the processes that successful startups follow, from the first spark of an idea to the launch of a company. Learn about project management, assessing competition in the market, and generating revenue. Learn about common mistakes that start-ups make and how to avoid them!

Group Project – develop your own startup: Collaborate in teams and utilize the skills you just learned to develop your own startup company. Learn how to communicate with one another effectively and efficiently in order to grow your idea into a successful startup. Bring your brand to life as you create your own pitch deck for potential investors and design a poster to market your company.

Pitch your idea: Once your plan is ready, it’s time to pitch your idea to possible investors – your fellow campers. Each camper will be given $100,000 of play money to invest in ideas that they find attractive. Can your startup gain the most backers?

Calling all aspiring designers and entrepreneurs! 

Join us for a week-long camp where you’ll learn the essential skills to create a strong and memorable brand for your business.

Our expert instructors will guide you through hands-on projects, teaching you the fundamentals of graphic design, branding, and marketing. You’ll learn how to create logos, design business cards, develop brand guidelines, and build a cohesive visual identity.

Throughout the camp, you’ll also participate in fun and challenging branding projects and design a portfolio of your own brand designs! At the end of the camp, you’ll have the opportunity to design and print a custom tote bag featuring your own brand design. 

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

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Custom Tote Bag (Please allow 3-6 weeks for delivery), Portfolio of Your Design Work, Certificate of Excellence – Brand Your Business, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, VIP Camp Lanyard

Calling all coders! Compete and show off your skills!!

Join us for an exhilarating week-long Hackathon Camp where you’ll put your coding skills and creativity to the test.

Work with your team to design, build, and code innovative projects that solve real-world problems. Collaborate with other campers, learn from experienced mentors, and unleash your potential as a tech innovator.

At the end of the week, you’ll present your final projects to a panel of judges and compete for top honors. Your team will also compete against other Hackathon Camps from around the country to determine the ultimate Hackathon Champions.

This camp is perfect for students interested in computer science, programming, and technology. Don’t miss this opportunity to have fun, make new friends, and develop valuable skills that will prepare you for a successful career in tech.

Campers should have at minimum some coding experience with Python™, such as having attended at least one week of a Lavner Coding with Python camp or similar.

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 previous experience who want to dive deeper into intermediate/advanced gameplay and map construction in Minecraft. You will work in teams to complete large-scale cooperative projects, participate in survival challenges, and engage in 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!

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

All campers must arrive with their own Minecraft Java™ edition accounts.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp projects, Certificate of Excellence – Minecraft World Builder, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp 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™, or Python™ or C++. This gives you the 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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – VEX Robotics, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Calling all budding engineers and tech enthusiasts! 

Join us for an exciting week-long camp where you’ll learn the fundamentals of robotics and coding using the popular Arduino® platform and Python™. Together, we’ll build a robot, from designing the hardware to writing the software that brings it to life.

Our expert instructors will guide you through hands-on projects, teaching you essential programming concepts and robotics principles. By the end of the camp, you’ll have created a personalized robot that you can take home and continue to explore and modify. 

This camp is perfect for kids and teens who are curious about technology, enjoy problem-solving, and want to have fun while learning new skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to become a robotics engineer and bring your imagination to life!

All campers will take home their robot at the end of camp. No prior knowledge of Python is required but is helpful!

Space Enthusiasts Wanted

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 and pilot your own multi-stage rockets within a physics-accurate space flight simulation. 

In addition to creating and flying rockets in Kerbal Space Program, you also have the chance to build and customize your 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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Space & Rockets, 2025 Special Edition Camp T-Shirt, VIP Camp Lanyard

Learn In-Demand Web Development Skills and Create Your Own Website!

At camp, learn to use HTML, CSS, and Javascript®  – industry-standard development tools that every web developer needs to know. 

Discover how the internet works and what is really happening when you navigate between different web pages. We’ll discuss web browsers, local systems, servers, and more! With this new understanding, we’ll teach you how to build a page in HTML, viewable in any browser. 

Once you have the basics down, you’ll get a chance to create your own concept for a website and bring it to life! This is your very own website, that you get to take home and share with your friends and family. At the end of the week, we will show you how to publish the site after leaving camp so you can share it with the world if you would like.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include gaining experience in HTML coding, CSS, Javascript, UI, UX, graphics, fonts, page layouts, creating your own website and more!

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Your Very Own Website, A Certificate of Excellence – Web Development, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Become an Influencer!

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.

Valuable skills like scripting, acting, filming, using green screens, creating special effects, editing, and more are also covered in this exciting camp!

Utilizing the hands-on format of this course, you’ll learn the skills you need to create your own vlog/video for YouTube. 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: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Your YouTube Style Video Projects, Certificate of Excellence – YouTube Content Creators, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Join us for an action-packed week of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math!

Experience the power of STEAM in an all-girls setting. Each day, we will dive deeply into an aspect of STEAM and learn about at least one famous woman in STEAM!

With exciting and unique topics each day, you’ll get exposure to a wide variety of important STEAM disciplines, ALL of which have been pioneered and influenced by amazing women. With inherently interdisciplinary topics, see how much S.T.E.A.M we can explore in an adventure-filled week.

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – All-Girls STEAM, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Calling all aspiring animators and digital artists! 

Join us for an exciting week-long camp where you’ll learn the fundamentals of 3D animation and character creation using the powerful Blender™ software.

Our expert instructors will guide you through hands-on projects, teaching you essential animation techniques like rigging, skinning, and keyframing. You’ll also explore the world of character design, modeling, and texturing.

Throughout the camp, you’ll have the opportunity to create your own animated short films or scenes. By the end of the camp, you’ll have a portfolio of your own animated creations and a solid understanding of the principles of 3D animation. This camp is perfect for students interested in animation, filmmaking, or game development.

Valuable Learning Opportunities include collaborating with peers to create projects, expert instruction in 3D animation and the Blender platform, and building your own portfolio of animation and short CGI films or scenes!

Change the Game with Python and the Power of Coding

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 write code more quickly, allowing you to produce project results in a shorter period of time.

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

Camp Take-Homes: At least one Python Project, a Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Certificate of Excellence – Coding with Python, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Code Something Awesome at Camp

C++ is used everywhere from video game engines and video editing software, to operating systems and office applications. Engineers at companies like Google™, Meta™, 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. Learn core principles of programming including memory management and object-oriented programming concepts. 

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp Projects, a Certificate of Excellence – C++ Camp, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Get a Head Start in Coding this Summer

Immerse yourself in Java™, the popular programming software used on billions of devices worldwide! Learn about the logic, syntax, and calculations that go into building Java programs. Work to master skills like printing text onto the computer screen, using conditional statements and loops, and receiving input from the user while creating a text-based action, adventure game, and other projects. Advanced students can even learn to add exciting graphics to their new programs! 

Valuable Learning Opportunities include sharpening skills in planning, problem solving, as well as learning tons of new computer programing skills!

Camp Take-Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, Camp Projects, Certificate of Excellence – Java Coding, a 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, and a VIP Camp Lanyard

Calling all future medical professionals!

Join us to learn how STEM and medicine intersect and form the basis for everything that future doctors, nurses, researchers, and other practitioners do!

On day one, you will learn how the body’s structure facilitates movement through bones, muscles, and the nervous system. After a quick dive into testing our nervous system to understand sense and perception, you’ll venture into forensic anthropology to learn more about how scientists use bone structure to help identify different bones. Work with our model skeleton, and at the end of the day, you’ll work to solve your first medical case!

Do you know what is wrong with patient X? On day two, we’ll learn about body systems through a virtual dissection. Can you trace the entire digestive system? In the afternoon, we will use our knowledge to try to solve a mystery case.

Medicine is more than science; it’s also working with people. Day three is all about a variety of skills! Learn the basics of taking a medical history, CPR, pulse, and respiration counts. Next, learn the science behind standard medical tests such as X-rays, CTs. and MRIs. Using your new-found knowledge, let’s investigate patient Y!

Math in medicine? You bet! You’ll learn how math relates to medicine through hands-on case studies and projects. Use your newfound math skills to help solve interesting medical cases.

Medicine is a changing field. On our last day, learn the basics of DNA science and then dive into looking at gene therapies and mRNA science that is changing the world!

Camp Take Homes: A Lavner-branded Flash Drive, 2025 Limited Edition Camp T-Shirt, VIP Camp Lanyard, Certificate of Excellence – STEM & Medicine

Join us to learn about some of the most exciting tech stocks on the market like Meta™, Nvidia® ,, 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 Camp is a unique program designed to introduce you to the exciting world of finance and technology. You will have the opportunity to learn about stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments, as well as explore the latest trends in the tech industry. Learn about some of the magnificent seven each day, why are they powerful companies and how do they influence the market? Through hands-on trading simulations, preparing an investment pitch and data analysis projects you’ll develop practical skills and gain valuable insights into the stock market.

Join us to take a deep dive into the powerful industry of tech, 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!

*No prior knowledge about the stock market is needed to participate. This camp is for educational purposes only, and does not offer financial and/or investment advice.