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STEM Summer Camps in NYC: Robots, Coding, and More Tech Fun

NORY's summer camp invites little learners to build confidence alongside STEM skills. Photo courtesy of the camp
NORY's summer camp invites little learners to build confidence alongside STEM skills. Photo courtesy of the camp
2/18/24 - By Drew Kristofik
NORY STEM+Sports Camp

At NORY, NYC's largest STEM+Sports Camp for ages 3-13, kids dive into super-sized woodworking, robotics, and coding projects! From building a life-size carnival to inventing a self-driving vehicle, aspiring changemakers enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime summer experience at 10+ convenient locations across NYC. LEARN MORE

NYC kids who are itching for the school year to end so they can devote more time to STEM are in luck. We've rounded up 27 STEM summer camps in New York City. Most of these STEM summer camps in NYC offer hands-on building, coding, 3D printing—even film-making! We've also found a few that bring art and sports into the summer camp mix.

Read on for our picks for the best STEM summer camps in NYC. You can find more summer camps in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx, including our picks for the top summer camps in NYC for tweens and teens, in our NYC Kids' Summer Camp Guide and NYC Camp Directory, where you can search for summer camps in NYC by type, age, and neighborhood. 

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iCAMP STEAM summer camps give little innovators a meaningful summer experience. Photo courtesy of the camp
iCAMP STEAM summer camps give little innovators a meaningful summer experience. Photo courtesy of the camp

STEM Summer Camps in NYC for All Ages

NORY STEM + Sports Camp

Multiple Manhattan and Brooklyn Locations
Ages 3-12
Children are makers and creators at Nory's holiday break and summer camps. Children can engage in woodworking, robot building, Roblox coding, and more. Questions are encouraged as kids build confidence and new skills. READ MORE

FasTracKids Summer STE(A)M Adventure Camp

Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island Locations
Ages 2-14
At FTKNY's Summer STE(A)M Adventure, campers explore a new career each week, interact with the SmartBoard Learning Station, role play, do arts and crafts, conduct experiments, improve their math and literacy skills, and have lots of free playtime with their friends.  READ MORE

iCAMP STEAM Summer Camps

Multiple Manhattan Locations
Ages 3-13
iCAMP is a holistic STEAM program where campers learn by doing. Students become creators at iCAMP’s summer camp, which focuses on teaching STEAM topics like coding, robotics, studio and graphic art, science, filmmaking, video game design, 3D printing, and more. READ MORE

Robofun STEM Summer Camps

Upper West Side
Ages 6-13
Robofun offers a summer camp filled with robots, coding, stop-motion animation, and circuitry for kids entering Pre-K through 8th grades. Weekly themes keep programming fresh no matter how many sessions your tech-crazed kid registers for.  READ MORE

Tip-Top Brain Learning Center - Classes & STEAM Camps

Astoria, Queens
Ages 5-13
Tip-Top Brain's summer STEAM camps offer an academically minded, effective preparation for the upcoming school year. Help kids avoid the summer brain drain while acquiring new skills like foundational math, reading, and writing concepts. Younger students are immersed in play-based activities, arts and crafts, read-alouds, science experiments, games, and much more. READ MORE

STEM Kids Summer Camp

Multiple Manhattan and Brooklyn Locations
Ages 5-13
STEM Kids offers summer camp programs in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Upper West Side, as well as a virtual program. Kids in grades K-8 are grouped according to age, and Fridays include field trips to museums and other surprising STEM spots. Kids also get plenty of outdoor time. READ MORE

Koko NYC Summer Camps

Park Slope, Brooklyn
Ages 5-14
Koko's summer camp encourages children to think outside the box. Older kids (8-14) plan and engineer soapbpx inventions using sketches and calculations, bringing them to life with found and recycled objects. Participants turn piles of seemingly useless trash into functional machines. Younger kids (ages 5-7) can engage in hands-on material exploration and building activities that are age appropriate using handsaws, tape, drills, and hot glue! READ MORE

Dazzling Discoveries

Upper West Side
Ages 5-15
From building cardboard, “hurricane-proof” houses to designing walking robotic creatures using 3D-printed parts and motors, Dazzling Discoveries offers a variety of hands-on STEM classes and camps. In its coding classes for kids, children build simple circuits and learn how to manipulate them with code. After-school classes, school break, and summer camps are all offered.  READ MORE

Cinema Kidz Summer Camp

Multiple Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn Locations
Ages 5-15
CinemaKidz invites campers to become filmmakers, animators, actors, game or costume designers, and more. Kids explore media and technology as they learn the fundamentals of storytelling, cinematography, editing, and other media arts in a hands-on creative environment. Projects are completely kid-made from start to finish. READ MORE

Camp Tech Revolution NYC

Greenwich Village
Ages 6-14
Camp Tech Revolution offers more than 50 award-winning, enriching summer camps in tech and the creative arts. Summer camps include Minecraft, Alexa skills, 3D printing, game design, Roblox, AI, spy tech, engineering, digital music, and even an all-girls option. READ MORE

The Coding Space Camps

Upper East Side and Park Slope, Brooklyn
Ages 8-17
Coding Space campers build their engineering grit and teamwork skills by collaborating on daily STEM challenges, like building the strongest bridge or tallest tower, making a light blink in Arduino, inventing a Rube Goldberg machine to solve a problem, and more. Field trips are included in every two-week session. READ MORE
At the Cathedral School, rising K to 6th-grade students participate in hands-on projects that blend craft, engineering, and tech.
At the Cathedral School, rising K to 6th-grade students participate in hands-on projects that blend craft, engineering, and tech.

STEM Summer Camps in NYC for Preschool and Elementary Age Kids

Brooklyn Preschool of Science

Multiple Brooklyn Locations
Ages 2-5
From expansive living plant walls to 300-gallon fish tanks, Brooklyn Preschool of Science is designed to stimulate kids' sense of wonder. The school's age-appropriate, science-based curriculum taps into a child’s need to understand how things work while providing a foundation for meaningful math, language, and literacy development. Over the summer, families can opt into 6-7 weeks of camp, where fun weekly themes keep kids learning and asking questions. READ MORE

STEAM Camp at the Cathedral School

Upper West Side
Ages 5-12
This innovative summer day camp invites rising kindergarten to sixth-grade students to participate in hands-on STEAM projects that blend craft, engineering, and technology. Not only do curious campers get to design and prototype at the high-tech Innovation Lab—they get to cool down in the AquaZone, complete with a water slide! Camp is structured in two-week sessions, each with an engaging overarching theme. READ MORE

Genius Gems

Chelsea
Ages 6-12
At Genius Gems, educators use hands-on learning to lead kids entering kindergarten and up in topics that include science wonder lab, witches and wizards Camp, rainbow and magic potions, Lego brick engineering, and more. Summer camps, for grades K-6, offer themed weekly sessions with early drop-off and aftercare options.   READ MORE

Snapology LIC

Long Island City, Queens
Ages 5-9
Snapology offers a summer camp full of STEAM activities by the week, month, or all summer-long. Activities range from engineering challenges to beginner coding and robotics, and various fun STEAM-related activities.  READ MORE

The Tiny Scientist

Multiple Brooklyn Locations
Ages 5-1o
During hands-on and minds-on classes and camp programs, children develop an understanding of scientific principles, build vocabulary, work together with other scientists, and engage in scientific discussion. Experienced teachers and attention to health protocols help keep kids safe, engaged and excited about science. READ MORE

Curious Jane Camp

Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Ages 5-11
Curious Jane is a project-based day camp for girls who love to get hands-on and make things. Themes revolve around science, engineering, and design. Multiple weekly sessions are offered with options like Spy Science, Kitchen Chemistry, Fab Lab, Room Makeover, Spa Science, Magic & Mystery, Mini World, and more. READ MORE

Launch Math + Science Centers

Upper West Side
Ages 5-12
From exploring the physics of bungee jumping to designing projects with Python, Launch's STEM-based summer camps give kids in grades K-7 the chance to build, create, and code. Daily camps mean students can complete their projects whether they participate in one day or a full week.  READ MORE

Brooklyn Robot Foundry

Gowanus, Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan
Ages 6-12
Summer Circuits at Brooklyn Robot Foundry are full-week programs that run Monday through Friday and feature fun themes that rotate throughout the summer. These weeks can be taken in any combination or order, but individual themes should not be repeated. Students make and take home a different robot project each day.   READ MORE

Penguin Coding School

Park Slope and Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Ages 6-12
A typical day at Penguin Coding School's summer camp program includes three hours of coding and two hours of hands-on STEM activities like robotics, 3D printing, and science. Off-screen time is built into every day, including lunch in a nearby park.  READ MORE

ESF Riverdale

Riverdale, the Bronx
Ages 6-12
ESF's summer camp programming includes Minecraft, Roblox, robotics, game development, virtual reality, coding, digital mixed media, and more! Recreational swimming is offered three days per week. READ MORE
iD Tech Camps strike the perfect balance between STEM skill development and summer fun. Photo courtesy of the camp
iD Tech Camps strike the perfect balance between STEM skill development and summer fun. Photo courtesy of the camp

STEM Summer Camps in NYC for Tweens and Teens

Center for Architecture Summer Camps

Greenwich Village
Ages 8-18
The Center for Architecture's summer camps cater to kids entering grades 3-12 and get them dreaming about the possibilities of design, form, and building. Past week-long programs have included building bridges, theater design, store design, fairytale architecture, and more. READ MORE

DNA Learning Center

Downtown Brooklyn
Ages 12-18
DNA Learning Center hosts summer campers at City Tech, with weekly themes that include Green Genes, Forensic Detectives, Bio-coding, and more. While most camp programs are aimed at high schoolers, and there are some pre-requisites, science enthusiasts entering grades 6-8 can get their feet wet (sometimes literally), too. READ MORE

NextGen Bootcamp NYC

Midtown East
Ages 13-18
Intensive summer programs and classes are offered in-person and online at NextGen Bootcamp. Students can learn a variety of coding topics including web development, Python, app development, Java, and more. READ MORE

iD Tech Summer STEM Camps and Classes

Greenwich Village and Upper West Side
Ages 7-18
iD Tech Camps strike the perfect balance between STEM skill development and summer fun, allowing kids and teens to experience a week at some of the top universities in the world. Your child will work alongside new friends and learn from expert tech mentors while taking breaks in between to enjoy outdoor play like ultimate frisbee, capture the flag, kickball, board games, and more. Virtual options are also available. READ MORE

Girls Who Code NYC (Virtual)

Virtual
Ages 15-17
Girls Who Code is a nationally recognized organization trying to close the gender gap in tech by getting girls excited about STEM. It offers two free virtual STEM summer camp options: a two-week introductory course and a six-week, learn-on-your-own-pace class. Programs are open to current high school students who identify as female or non-binary. READ MORE

Places featured in this article:

NORY Summer Camp Upper East Side
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservatory
Cinema Kidz - BASIS Independent Central Park
Camp Coding Space - Upper East Side
Launch Math + Science Centers (UWS - 81, Flagship)
Brooklyn Robot Foundry - Gowanus
Penguin Coding School - Park Slope
iD Tech at NYU - Washington Square
Various Locations