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Mad Science of Washington DC
12065 Tech Road
Silver Spring, MD 20904
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About Us
Summer and Vacation Camps
Birthday Parties
After School Programs
In-Class Field Trips
About Us
About Us
Mad Science is a leading science enrichment and entertainment provider. We deliver unique, hands-on science experiences for children that are as entertaining as they are educational.
Birthday Parties
Mad Science birthday parties entertain children of all ages with exciting, high-energy, interactive shows that come to you. Our parties last about an hour for ages six and up, 45 minutes for preschool parties. If your child has seen another Mad Science party, let us know and we will make sure to bring new and exciting experiments to make their birthday special.
Summer and Vacation Camps
Mad Science camps offer a daily combination of in-class discovery and exploration, outdoor games and physical activities, and hands-on applications of the scientific principles presented. Your child will be able touch, see, hear, smell and taste what science is really all about. We use simple, real world science techniques that allow even the youngest of campers to enjoy our learning environment. Campers create, build and assemble a variety of take-home projects while exploring how science affects the world around us.
After-School Programs
Mad Science brings hands-on, interactive, science programs right to your school! During after-school programs, children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and make their own experiments to take home!
In-Class Field Trips
Mad Science’s in-class interactive workshops are aligned to STEM objectives, curriculum-correlated, and meet state and district requirements. With professional lesson plans, unique equipment, and animated instructors, Mad Science Workshops are an ideal way to reinforce core science concepts. Our hands-on approach and focus on science and engineering practices teaches kids about the fun of science and helps to spark their imaginations!
Assemblies and Shows
Mad Science special events are flexible and can be customized to suit your needs, schedule, budget, or audience size. They are great for school assemblies, science nights, PTA picnics, and any time you want the best entertainment for a large group of children.
Summer Camps
Mad Science camps offer a daily combination of in-class discovery and exploration, outdoor games and physical activities, and hands-on applications of the scientific principles presented. Your child will be able touch, see, hear, smell and taste what science is really all about. We use simple, real world science techniques that allow even the youngest of campers to enjoy our learning environment. Campers create, build and assemble a variety of take-home projects while exploring how science affects the world around us.
Camp Options
Mad Science has both full and half day options for most camps. Full day is from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Half-day is your choice of 9:00 AM- 12:00 PM or 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM. Before and aftercare is available at many locations.
Camp Schedule and Locations
With over 30 locations in Maryland, Virginia, and DC, we have excellent options for your summer schedule. Please see our website for complete schedule and to register. dc.madscience.org
Seven different exciting week-long camps
Topics include:
Eureka!
Children will overcome a series of challenges using basic materials, simple machines, tips from famous inventors and the most important of all- their mind. With a little bit of ingenuity, children will create catapults and forts, construct working light sticks to take home, and assemble a set of circuits with batteries and light bulbs. While Thomas Edison said, "invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration," this camp is 100% FUN! - Best for children entering 1st through 6th grade.
- Full-day (per week) $315.00
- Half-day (per week) $185.00
3, 2, 1… Blast Off! (Full-day only)
This action-packed week will focus solely on rockets and the physics of rocket flight. After learning the model rocket safety code, campers will build a number of different rockets and participate in the launching, mission control, propulsion, and finally recovery of the rockets they build. Campers will be divided into three groups: altitude trackers, launch preparation, and launchers. Every camper will have an opportunity to try all three. - Best for children entering 2nd through 6th grade.
- Full-day (per week) $315.00
Earth, Space, and Beyond
Explore space, nature, secret codes, and sports. How much better can it get? You’ll discover how to send secret messages to your friends. Get a taste for space as you become a young astronaut. Investigate the Earth and nature. The sun, moon and the stars are only a few of the things that must be dealt with on this Mad Science mission! - Best for children entering 1st through 6th grade.
- Full-day (per week) $315.00
- Half-day (per week) $185.00
Science in Motion
Like Earth, Space and beyond, each day has a different theme. Discover how things move with science. Take apart pellets to see what an owl cannot digest! Join a team of camper engineers and build bridges, domes, cubes, and pyramids. Assemble and control pulleys, levers, catapults, and simple machines. Make you own sidewalk chalk, crystal gardens, and chromatography-dyed T-shirt! - Best for children entering 1st through 6th grade.
- Full-day (per week) $315.00
- Half-day (per week) $185.00
Crime Scene and Chemistry
Mad Science introduces you to life in the form of cells and organs and to how the science behind life can help you solve a crime! Discover the secrets behind batteries and design marshmallow molecules! Conduct electricity and power a Mad Science whirligig. Experience blood pumping through the heart and air moving through the lungs. Use ooey-gooey ingredients to build a model cell & use your own traits to decode & decipher your DNA. - Best for children entering 1st through 6th grade.
- Full-day (per week) $315.00
- Half-day (per week) $185.00
Red Hot Robots (Full-day only)
Join Mad Science and our Radical Robots for a scientific journey through circuitry and sensors. Explore several different types of robots….robots that follow lines and sounds, robotic arms like the ones you see in the big factories on TV (well, smaller than that, but you get the picture). You will even play tag with robots that you control! Complete the camp by building your own robot to take home! - Best for children entering 2nd through 6th grade.
- Full-day (per week) $335.00
Secret Agent Lab
Suspects! Schematics! and Sleuths! Connect the dots using science to help solve a crime in this hands on investigation of the science of sleuthing. Uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis and fingerprinting detection. Enhance you recall and observation skills and learn how to use spy equipment. - Best for children entering 1st through 6th grade.
- Full-day (per week) $315.00
- Half-day (per week) $315.00
Party Options
Mad Science birthday parties entertain children of all ages with exciting, high-energy, interactive shows that come to you. Our parties last about an hour for ages six and up, 45 minutes for preschool parties. If your child has seen another Mad Science party, let us know and we will make sure to bring new and exciting experiments to make their birthday special.
Basic School-Age Party (ages 6-12)
One hour of thrilling entertainment! Kids will enjoy a 45-minute show full of science excitement followed by 15 minutes making something to take home. You may choose from slime, putty, or color-changing key chains. For ages 8 and up we can also do super bouncy balls.
- Up to 10 kids $260.00
- 11-15 kids $280.00
- 16-20 kids $300.00
- 21-30 kids $320.00
- 31-40 kids $350.00
- additional travel fees may apply
Basic Preschool Party (ages 3-6)
This 45-minute show includes tons of fun experiments AND our Bubbling Potions upgrade at no additional cost! Every child receives a foam crush rocket to take home
- Up to 10 kids $260.00
- 11-15 kids $280.00
- 16-20 kids $300.00
- 21-30 kids $320.00
- 31-40 kids $350.00
- additional travel fees may apply
Parents' Helper Party (ages 3-12)
This party is perfect for that group of kids you need an extra hand with. Our Mad Scientist will arrive before the kids, perform the basic party and upgrade of your choice, and stay until the end of your 2 hour party to help with the kids and hand out goody bags.
- Up to 20 kids $539.00
- each child over 20 $5.00
- additional travel fees may apply
Upgrades and Extras
Customize your party with some of these extraordinary upgrades and goodies!
Rocket Launch
We discuss the parts of the rocket and blast it off NASA style! The birthday child gets a rocket kit with instructions to build.
- $40.00
Cotton Candy
$35.00
Learn how heat and centripetal force transform sugar into a web of floss. Each child receives a cotton candy cone!
Laser Light Show
$30.00
Learn the difference between LASER light and regular light! See the laser beam jump, dance, and change shape! The birthday child can even operate the LASER while we provide music for a LASER dance party!
Bubbling Potions
Dry Ice is transformed into a MAD SCIENTIST'S bubbling brew, potions that change color, and a volcano of bubbles. Taste, touch and experience the results of the dry ice sublimating!
- $45.00
Hovercraft
$40.00
Take a ride on our futuristic hovercraft and marvel as you float on a cushion of air! We require a level surface (such as carpet or tile) for this activity. Because only one child can go at a time, we suggest doing the hovercraft activity for only up to 15 children.
Voice Effects Generator
$35.00
Hear wacky voices and silly sounds! We use a professional quality sound machine and let the party guests hear themselves sound like chipmunks, aliens, and robots! Enjoy the giggles as you let them listen to how HIGH and LOW their voices can get!
Goody Bags
Each colorful goody bag contains: Fantastic Helix Flyer Polymer Putty Spin Disk Soak and Grow Critter Flip Top Cool Stickers Rub-on Tattoos
- each bag $5.00
Disposable Lab Coats
Dress up your little scientists with their own colorful lab coats!
- each lab coat $6.50
The Experience
Looking to spark imaginative learning after school?
Mad Science brings hands-on, interactive, science programs right to your school!
During after-school programs
children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and make their own experiments to take home!
With seven different 8-week series of classes, children can participate a huge variety of STEM-based programs.
The Experience
Would you like to enhance your science curriculum? Look no further!
Mad Science’s in-class interactive workshops are aligned to STEM objectives, curriculum-correlated, and meet state and district requirements.
With professional lesson plans, unique equipment, and animated instructors, Mad Science Workshops are an ideal way to reinforce core science concepts.
Our hands-on approach and focus on science and engineering practices teaches kids about the fun of science and helps to spark their imaginations!
Our in-class workshops are ideal for children from Kindergarten through to grade 6.
Each workshop is accompanied by a Teacher Resource Package you can request to maximize the learning experience before and after each Mad Science workshop.
Interactive Workshops
Here are just a few of our fun and interactive workshops that focus on science and engineering practice:
Fundamental Forces
Teaches: Force, Motion, Energy. Introduces students to the basic concepts of forces. Allows children to encounter their own force of gravity and to see what happens to objects when different forces are applied; this helps to illustrate things like gravity, racetrack, centrifugal, and centripetal force. Children also get a chance to experiment with gyroscopes and loops.
Current Events
Teaches: Force, Motion, Energy. Students create simple circuits that will light a bulb. Hands-on activities also allow them to explore more complex series of circuits. They experiment with a nerve-tester, Mad Science electricity labs, and our amazing Tooth Tunes device. They also observe how electricity flows through wires and water.
Ecosystems
Teaches: Living Systems. Students learn about the interconnections that exist between all living things in an ecosystem, including humans. The nature cycles, food chains and energy webs (producers, consumers and decomposers) within different environments are explored before we make mini-ecosystems that students can observe in class for a month.
Photosynthesis
Teaches: Life Processes. This workshop provides an introduction to the chemical processes in a plant, plant respiration, and the role of plants in food webs. Students get a chance to examine the role of light in the process, test for starch, and then create a mini greenhouse to observe in class or take home.
All About Animals
Teaches: Living Systems. How do animals feed themselves and their young? Which animals hibernate and which ones migrate, and why? How do animals use camouflage and behavior to protect themselves from predators? Students gain a better understanding of the adaptations and characteristics of animals which live in different habitats and environments and then make a cast of an animal print to take home.
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About Us
Mad Science of Washington was opened in 1995 by a husband-wife team, who taught in MCPS schools. The staff of Mad Science has deep roots in the DC metro area, all of whom have attended school in the area. This gives us a unique perspective as educators, students, and parents in the area. Today, Mad Science of Washington averages aproximately 150 workshops per month, many of which are tailored to meet curriculum standards. In addition, we run over 350 after-school enrichment classes per year, 250 assemblies per year, and over 700 birthday parties per year.