2025 Summer STEM Camps
Registration is now live for our 2025 College of STEM Summer Camps! Choose your adventure and get ready to explore with Austin Peay faculty and students.
Space Explorers Camp
- Dates: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. each day June 23-27.
- Cost: $300. All supplies, snacks and lunches included in the cost.
- Register at: The APSU Marketplace Page
- Offered by: APSU's Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy.
Austin Peay State University's Space Explorer Camp is back for another session in Summer 2025, running from June 23-27.
The camp, designed for students from 10-14 years old, will be a full-day, weeklong day camp focused on space exploration and astronomy.
The camp will provide campers with the opportunity to learn about planets, stars and what is up in the sky while also engaging in fun and exciting activities such as building telescopes, making craters and launching water bottle rockets.
Students will:
- Spend a full day at the APSU Observatory learning about telescopes. Students will build their own telescopes and use telescopes to safely view the sun.
- Explore the night sky using the school’s 20-inch professional telescope and other smaller telescopes. The specific night will depend on sky conditions.
- Build and launch water bottle rockets and learn the basics of rocketry.
- Use computer-based activities and the Robert Sears Planetarium to learn about basic motions in the sky and constellations.
- Spend a full day exploring the planets of our solar system, learning about their size, characteristics, compositions and distance from the sun.
- Learn how craters are made and make craters themselves in simulated planetary bombardments.
- Handle meteorites from space!
- Build a 3D-printed model of the James Webb Space Telescope and learn about other NASA space observatories.
Summer Coding Camps
- Dates: Several dates throughout the summer.
- Cost: $139 or $149. Snacks and drinks provided.
- Register at: The APSU Summer Coding Camps web page.
- Offered by: APSU's Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Austin Peay offers 17 summer coding camps opened to students in third-grade to those entering their first year of college. The camps are half a day over five days, and all equipment is provided in the university's state-of-the-art PC labs.
Camps include:
- Minecraft.
- Roblox.
- Visioncraft.
- Website-building.
- Programs and games from scratch.
- 3D videogame development.