Leave your electronic gadgets at home and dive into the world of tabletop gaming! Explore innovative game design projects, learn about fascinating mechanics and themes, and play the latest games. You'll even design your own game or variation. Connect with others through trading, negotiating, cooperating, and competing. It’s all about creativity, fun, and making new friends!

Elevate your chess game at our camp designed for school club players seeking their next challenge! Whether you're new to tournaments or aiming to enhance your skills, we'll delve into standard chess and variations. Join us if you're ready for a deeper level of instruction beyond the basics! An academy chess tournament will be included, time permitting.

Learn about role playing games and how to be a better Dungeon Master! Build on what you already know or just start from scratch. Bring your imaginary worlds, environments, creatures, characters, and equipment to life. Improve your storytelling. Learn fantasy cartography (map-making) techniques. This camp will be very open ended and should be able to go where you want to go. We will play half of the time and design half of the time.

Learn to cook Minnesotan with locally sourced ingredients from various ethnic traditions. Minnesota has a unique and delicious food culture, featuring tater tot hotdish, lefse, wild rice soup, fry bread, fresh salsa, spring rolls, and more. After mastering these dishes, students will run their own Cafe & Snackery.

Students will learn food preparation, health, and safety standards. A field trip will include visits to local ethnic markets, a community farm, and possibly a restaurant.

Students can also learn business operations, such as managing inventory, tracking sales, and ensuring customer satisfaction. They'll use spreadsheets, track revenue and expenses, calculate profit and loss, and develop marketing skills.

In addition to food prep, students may manage a daily concessions stand using business simulation software. Design students will learn graphic design principles, create marketing materials, logos, and more for the MN Cafe & Snackery and other SEA programs.

For young students who enjoy building and solving, our youngest scientists and engineers will choose a solar system location to deploy a robot for exploration. Design your robot to survive and complete its mission, and build a rocket to transport it! Learn visual “scratch” coding techniques to create or enhance games, with a mobile account to share your work. Gain a competitive edge in coding, problem-solving, and innovation! Students will also run the SEA concessions stand, handling customer service, inventory, and sales.

If you want to learn the secrets of magic, start your journey to performing on stage, or just want to show off something cool at the next family get-together, The Art of Magic will teach you what you need to know.

Magic can be an excellent way to gain self-confidence, develop social skills, and improve communication. Not to mention, magic is really fun!

During our two weeks of camp, we will explore working with clay. We will learn the technical aspects of creating hand-built work, as well as the steps to throwing on the potter’s wheel. Clay students will learn about the firing process and have some of their work glazed and fired. Through all of this, we will let our creativity flow! One of the project options will involve architectural themes. Be prepared to get dirty, create, and play with clay!

Ever wanted to bring your stories to life through comics? Join a dynamic class that explores the world of Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and more. Dive into the unique conventions of comics—frames, panels, and word bubbles. This isn't just about improving art; it's about crafting compelling stories. Develop skills to recognize and use these conventions, spending time reading, planning, writing, and drawing. By the end, you'll have created your own comic with original characters and a unique storyline. Ready to unleash your creativity?

Ready to rock? Try your hand at instruments like electric guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums. No experience needed—we keep it simple and fun. Learn to perform a full song by the end of the program. Let's rock and roll!

If you want to assist an instructor in the classroom or support the academy outside the classroom, this is for you. Gain skills working with younger students and adults, and in SEA communication and administration.

Get to know your place in the universe as we journey through a scale model of our solar system, create a model of the zodiac constellations, make daily observations of the sun with a special telescope, and observe the moon and create a model that explains its phases. Our activities will be centered on modeling everything to a scale that can be observed in our classroom. We will discover scientific laws and theories using spectroscopes to determine spectral signatures of elements. If the planets align, we hope to visit the Minnesota Astronomical Society’s Eagle Lake Observatory.  All aboard Spaceship Earth!

Interested in costume design? Learn illustration, hand sewing, and machine sewing to bring your ideas to life for performances or costume parties. Guided instruction in an open-ended studio format.

Get a story that needs to be told at SEA into the community through the written word. Explore the various platforms you could use to post your work and tell a story. Practice working as a team of reporters looking for the next story. Give a voice to a program or person at SEA that needs to be heard and bring a little more good to the world.

Get a story that needs to be told at SEA into the community through the medium of video. Explore the different platforms you could use to post your work and tell a story. Practice your composition, camera angles, and storyboarding to bring your videography project to life. Give a voice to a program or person at SEA that needs to be heard and bring a little more good to the world.

Get up close and personal with the tool (and toy) that gets you around town! Learn how your bike operates, how to perform regular maintenance, and how to make minor and major repairs. Bring your own bike or use one provided. It's a great way to learn how to use tools, get mechanical, and solve problems!