Gateway Academy

Enter a world of Imagination, Innovation, and Learning. 

That's what middle school-age boys and girls can expect from Gateway Academy Summer Day Camp. Though at first glance it may appear to be all fun and games, this summertime camp experience prepares students for the rigors of high school science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) classes. The critical thinking, creative problem-solving and collaboration skills that campers learn at Gateway Academy will benefit them for a lifetime.

Information on Gateway Academy camps for summer 2012 will be available soon.

Download a PDF version of the Gateway Academy Brochure.

Each day begins with a fun team-building exercise like:

• Making a human knot
• Building a desert shelter
• Role-playing plane-crash survival

Campers then go on to work both separately and together on projects such as:

• Creating a spacecraft strong and light enough to land an "eggstronaut" safely
• Building and racing a car that runs entirely on solar energy
• Firing missiles from a catapult made with a mousetrap

Throughout the session, campers use the latest technology to solve big challenges, including:

• Turning raw materials into wearable jewelry prototypes, using advanced sketching and modeling software
• Making a remote-controlled robot and programming it to navigate a maze in a race against the clock
• Designing, building, and testing a rocket for maximum possible altitude and a perfect landing with the help of Autodesk Inventor® 3D modeling software

Moms and Dads, Mark Your Calendars.

Summer will be here sooner than you think. If your child is entering grade seven, eight, or nine during the upcoming school year, is curious about the way things work and is into having fun, learning something new and making new friends, then you'll want to sign up soon.

Please email Gateway Academy for more information or to order brochures. Please include your school's name, address (make sure to include a street address) and the name of the person the brochures should be sent to, as well as a quantity.

The Gateway Academy Summer Day Camp Program combines the efforts of two of our nation's most outstanding educational organizations, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation (SME-EF) and PLTW. SME-EF advances manufacturing education through youth programs and scholarships. To date, they've invested more than $4.5 million to inspire more than 5,700 young people to explore technical careers. PLTW has provided engineering and biomedical sciences curricula for more than 400,000 students in more than 4,200 middle and high school programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.