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Engineering Summer Camp in St. Simons, GA

Parents in St. Simons, GA book summer in February and regret it in July. St. Simons is one of the cities the Brunswick–St. Simons, GA metro area is officially named after. What separates a week worth repeating is whether the child was ever genuinely stuck and then unstuck.

Ages 7-14 · For families · Georgia · South

Engineering Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in St. Simons, GA
Engineering Summer Camp — Ellis Abel Learns STEM summer camp materials used in St. Simons, GA

What the week actually is

Engineering week is constraints week. A bridge that must hold a weight, with a fixed pile of materials and a deadline. Children who have never been told no by a problem before meet one here, and learn that the answer is a redesign, not a tantrum.

Day by day

  1. Constraints and a materials budget
  2. First build, first collapse
  3. Redesign from what failed
  4. Load test to destruction, record the number
  5. Showcase: defend the design choice

St. Simons, GA — what applies locally

  • St. Simons is one of the cities the Brunswick–St. Simons, GA metro area is officially named after.
  • Metro area: Brunswick–St. Simons, GA
  • State: Georgia · Region: South

Questions we get from St. Simons, GA

What do they build?
Load-bearing structures, simple machines, catapults, water filters — physical things that either work or fall over.
Is it messy?
Yes. That is not incidental.
Do they work alone or in teams?
Both. Solo build first, then a team build where they have to defend a design choice out loud.

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