Nuts and Bolts Academy

The Nuts and Bolts Academy provides opportunities for students at multiple grade levels to engage in fun, educational experiences. Our camps expose students to manufacturing and engineering through innovative, hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities.

View the 2020 Summer Camp catalog.

Artsy Additive

Ages: 9-12
Cost: $275

Learn how to design, create and print your own unique art! Use your critical thinking skills to develop a cool, functional piece of art; then bring your creations to life using 3D software and additive manufacturing.

Lunch provided.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu

Bits, Bots and Thingamajigs

Campers will explore Tri-C’s Ideation Station, a fully equipped fab lab with 3D printers, laser engravers, CNC router and virtual welder. Campers will enjoy lunch and learns with industry professionals providing them with an insight on what is like to work in manufacturing developing and creating new product.  At the end campers will design their own project and participate in a mock Shark Tank. This camp is partially grant-funded through the Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation.

Lunch provided.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu

BIZWhiz Academy

Ages: 11-16
Cost: $325

Are you a young teen inventor with a great idea you’d like to bring to life? This is the camp for you! In
this one-week camp, you’ll learn how to brainstorm ideas and make them a reality, with lunch-and-learn
sessions led by professionals who have come up with their own inventions. Once you’ve designed and
created your own model, you’ll pitch your ideas in a mock Shark Tank. Keep the models you make!

Lunch provided.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu

Crazy Kitchen Chemist

Ages: 11-16
Cost: $375

Did you know you can cook with chemicals? Learn about molecular gastronomy — the science of cooking — in this one-week camp. Cook and eat a new dish each day using chemicals, syringes, pH meters and other tools usually found in a science lab. Molecular gastronomy kit and apron included.

Use molecular gastronomy cooking methods to make your own lunch each day.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu

Creation Station

Ages: 11-15
Cost: $575

Interested in learning what you can do in a fab lab? In this two-week camp, you’ll explore Tri-C’s Ideation Station — a fully equipped fab lab with 3D printers, laser engravers, CNC router and much more. Create and design your own projects to take home, using 2D and 3D modeling software to design, laser and print your creations. Projects include T-shirt design, a 3D-printed car and a table and chair.

Lunch provided.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu

CSI CLE

Ages: 11-15
Cost: $575

Interested in science and crime? Enjoy playing detective? This two-week camp focuses on the science
of forensic investigation. Learn how to do casts of footprints or tire tracks, take crime scene photos
and much more. You’ll also learn about crime investigation from people working in the field.

Lunch provided.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu

Flying High With Drones

Ages: 14-17
Cost: $500

Build and program your very own drone in this one-week camp! Learn GPS mission planning as you construct and program your own personal quadcopter for flight. You’ll also gain experience building and piloting a drone on a fun and challenging indoor obstacle course. The finished product is yours to keep.

Lunch provided.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu

Rock the Fab Lab CLE

Ages: 12-18
Cost: $500

This one-week experience is for campers interested in making their own guitar in Tri-C’s state-of-the-art fab lab. Learn how to customize and mill a block of wood to build a guitar you can take home! No guitar
skills or experience required.

Lunch provided.

Contact: Alethea V. Ganaway, 216-987-4424 or alethea.ganaway@tri-c.edu