These are resources from Shelly Fryer's June 2026 "Rocket Engineering Lab" summer camps. These were offered June 15-18 through Summer at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Suit up, engineers! In this LEGO Masters-inspired Space Builders Club, students will explore the exciting world of real NASA missions and space technology — all through hands-on LEGO building challenges. Each week, young builders will learn about a famous NASA mission or spacecraft, like the Apollo Moon landing, the Mars rovers, the International Space Station, or the Artemis mission to return to the Moon.
Each day, campers will blast off into hands-on Lego Masters Jr.-style building challenges inspired by real NASA missions and space exploration! From designing rockets to reach the Moon and spacecraft to carry astronauts, to creating lunar rovers, moon bases, satellites, and robots, students will engineer, test, and showcase their own out-of-this-world creations. The week ends with a space showcase, where campers present their “galactic builds” from rockets to black hole explorers!
Campers will think and build like real NASA engineers as they explore rockets, rovers, and space missions through hands-on LEGO challenges. Along the way, they’ll strengthen creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork skills while discovering how NASA explores the Moon, Mars, and beyond. By week’s end, students will leave inspired by the wonders of space and eager to dream up their own future missions!
These are the slides for this camp, created as a single slideshow. Note embedded YouTube videos are not linked / clickable in the PDF version.
Links with titles / descriptions to the 36 videos used in our camp activities and included in our camp slideshow are included in this spreadsheet. CATEGORIES, titles, and descriptions are included! A few of the videos are also included as embeds below. (We can't include them all because it could make this webpage impossible to load / view.)