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Choose Your Own Adventure Camp

Rising Grades 3 - 8

Campers choose their activities based upon their interests, and those interests can change week-by-week. Our wide variety of activities allows campers to try many different options throughout the summer, giving them a well-rounded summer camp experience.

Select two activities, one for the morning and one for the afternoon, for each week your child attends camp. Once you register, you will receive a confirmation for the class. If a class does not meet minimum enrollment, we will notify families by early May and help you find an alternative activity.

  • Weeks 1-6 (June 21 – July 30)
  • $425 per week

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Reader's Pick, A Top Vote Getter, Best Day Summer Camp 2020

Adventure Day Camp in Bethesda Maryland

Daily Schedule

  • 9:10 – 9:45 a.m.: Opening & whole camp activity
  • 9:50 – 11:55 a.m.: Morning activity period
  • Noon – 12:40 p.m.: Lunch/recess
  • 12:45 – 2:45 p.m.: Activity period
  • 3 p.m.: Camper dismissal

Activity Choices

Archery

Take aim at one of our most popular summer activities: archery! Learn the proper use of bows and arrows in this fascinating sport.

Baking Bonanza

Learn about different baking techniques in a fun, creative, and safe environment. Campers get their hands dirty–well, covered in flour–as they gain hands-on experience in the kitchen making cookies, cakes, and other delectable delights!

NEW! Beading and Jewelry Making

In this class, you will learn how to make cool jewelry all by yourself. No experience needed! You’ll learn simple techniques like a daisy chain, macramé, and basic knotting using wire, elastic, and natural fibers. You’ll use a mixture of seed, crystal, and glass beads to create one-of-a-kind bracelets, anklets, and necklaces. Experienced beaders can work to his/her level on preferred projects. You will learn how to do five different beading projects and complete them during class.

Building Design with Minecraft

Use the super-popular game Minecraft to plan and construct in a fully interactive world together! Students will have opportunities, both by themselves and collaboratively, to plan out what they are going to build, and then make it come to life in the game! Campers do not need to be familiar with Minecraft.

Chopped

Perfect your culinary expertise in this hands-on cooking class. Whip-up everything from appetizers to desserts and all of the courses in between.

Junior Engineers

Use the scientific method, experiment with different materials, test hypotheses in physics and engineer rockets, and build bridges that work. Watch your rocket soar and test the strength of your bridge in a week of engineering fun.

Kids Coding

Use Google CS programs to learn how to code to create fashion, games, stories, art, and music as well as to simulate sports. You will also have access and instruction to creating games in ScratchEd as well as code.org, depending on a camper’s familiarity and practice with regards to coding. Each camper will have a programming experience tailored to their interests and level!

Robotics

In robotics, we will expand on prior knowledge and delve deeper into programming and planning. Campers will use LEGO robotics equipment while enjoying this exciting camp.

NEW! Robotics/Battle Bots

Can you program the winner of the battle? In Battle Bots, campers will have the opportunity to build and program their own “fighter” to take on the competition in the ring. Whether you are a beginner or experienced, this is sure to be a fun time. Campers will use LEGO robotics equipment while enjoying this exciting camp

Sculpture

Explore three-dimensional art using clay, cardboard, paper, wood, stone, and mixed media. Learn different methods to work clay, how to glaze it, and then kiln fire your pieces. View several public sculptures on a field trip downtown.

Sports Mix

Experience a variety of indoor and outdoor sporting activities. We will focus on skills and rules while participating in camp favorites such as soccer, basketball, medic, volleyball, capture the flag, and more!

Studio Art

Create original works of art from life observations utilizing the fundamentals and principles of art and design. Projects include canvas board painting, pastels, charcoal, pencil drawing, black and white sketches, watercolors, marbleized papermaking, and mixed media.

Weird Science

Experiment in our fully-equipped science lab. From volcanoes to microscopes, get your hands dirty with weird and wild science experiments. Make things like slime, generate a cloud in a bottle, and create ink for secret messages.

Maker. Tinker. Thinker!

This program will allow your inquisitive camper to use an assortment of materials, tools, and technologies to explore and create. Our design and play-based activities are experimental, fun, and intended to create opportunities for open-ended exploration. You’ll play, tinker, and make your way to science inspiration!

Farm To Table

Campers will learn about how to grow food and how farmers grow healthy food year-round. We will visit markets around campus to select fresh ingredients to make nutritious and delicious meals and snacks. We will also tend to our on-site garden to get the freshest produce possible. Don’t miss out on this one of a kind opportunity

Cupcake Wars

Come and play with us. It’s Cupcake VS. Cupcake in this engaging camp! Each week campers, sorry, BAKERS, will face off in several elimination challenges until only one team remain in the competition. Campers will use their creativity to decorate beautiful and delicious cupcakes in both team- and solo-based competitions.

Book Club

WES Summer Book Club! A book club is a great way to encourage campers to read. Campers will have an opportunity to enjoy and discuss books in a fun and comfortable setting. It will help campers to build community experiences by meeting with friends to choose, read, and discuss books together. Our book club will come alive with arts, discussions, crafts, and other activities.

"Great work! Our kids are always so excited to go back to camp at WES. As with the school experience, WES is a special and welcoming place. In fact, we canceled a week at another camp because our kids wanted to go to WES camp instead."

"The facilities are great and the camp counselors are wonderful with each and every camper. When I drop of my son, I know that he is going to have a great time."

"We can't wait to sign-up! Before last year's camp ended, my children were asking to do it again this summer."

"It is exactly what a camp should be: FUN!"

"My kids loved Summer@WES. Each morning they get up enthusiastically and are excited to be with the other campers and counselors. It is the best camp they have attended."

"I used to sign up for multiple camps because I thought my child would appreciate new settings, but now I sign up for multiple sessions at Summer@WES. All the campers and camp staff are extremely welcoming, and my child always felt relaxed and excited for camp."

"It is awesome!"

"Summer@WES needs to market itself more. The camp is just too good to be kept a secret!"

"I wish school could be this cool!"

"My child had a terrible experience at another camp, primarily due to poor inattentive aftercare, which was in contrast to the attentive aftercare provided by WES. In addition, my child loved the themed weeks in the Dragon Day Camp and learned a tremendous amount in each of the sessions."

"My twins really enjoy dragon quest camp. They like the fact that they got to chose what they wanted to do every day."

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