Are you ready to take your game design skills to another level? With Unity, an industry-grade design software, aspiring game designers will learn level editing, 3D modeling, impactful gameplay creation, as well as how to utilize scripts and variables. Student-created games will be available on a password protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Returning students can create more advanced projects that build on previous years.

Are you ready to take your game design skills to another level? With Unity, an industry-grade design software, aspiring game designers will learn level editing, 3D modeling, impactful gameplay creation, as well as how to utilize scripts and variables. Student-created games will be available on a password protected Black Rocket website to share with friends and family. Returning students can create more advanced projects that build on previous years.

After Care runs from 4PM – 5:30PM

At the end of your child’s daily program, your child may remain on the BCC campus to participate in supervised activities until 5:30 p.m. Your child may enroll in any or all of the weeks during which your child is attending a program. Participants are not permitted to stay on campus following the end of their regularly scheduled day without authorized supervision. A LATE FEE of $50/hour will be charged if the child is not picked up by 5:30 pm.

Week 2: Grades 2 – 6; Week 3: Grades 5 – 8; Week 5: Grades 2 – 6; Week 6: Grades 5 – 8 runs 1PM – 4PM  

Architecture and engineering are the focus of this program. You will work to design and build towers, balsa bridges and a wide array of Lego and K’nex™ architecture projects. Have fun building famous architectural designs from around the world including Adam Tucker Reed’s famous brick structures including the Empire State Building, Imperial Hotel, Whitehouse, Flat Iron Building, Seattle Space Needle, and more. You will also build bridges, towers, and other structures using a variety of materials, and learn about structural engineering principles and forces that act on structures. Develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills in a fun, hands-on environment.

Week 2: Grades 1 – 6 runs from 1PM – 4PM 
Week 3: Grades 1 – 6 runs from 1PM – 4PM 

Have fun making and creating as we explore a wide variety of arts and craft projects that will bring out the artist in you and put the “A” for Art in our STEAM camps! Projects include sand art, friendship bracelets, painting, making a rain stick, 3D pens, CD spinners, mosaic Sun crafts, and even an introduction to CAD drawing and 3-D printing on our Makerbot 3D printer. Most projects can be taken home!

Before Care runs from 7:30AM – 9AM

BCC’s staff ensures your child’s prompt check-in at their regularly scheduled programs. Your child may enroll in any or all of the weeks during which your child is attending a program.

This beginner watercolor class is a perfect way to explore and express your inner-artist. The beginning watercolor class will teach you a wide variety of techniques including brush usage, color mixing, color application, and how to find your unique painting style. We will complete mini projects such as landscape, ZenTangles and more. Come join us for a relaxing and fun way to learn watercolor!

Runs 9AM – 12PM in Week 2 and Week 5 

Almost everyone has an iPhone or Android camera and takes photos. This course teaches the fundamentals for making digital photos better. Learn the basics of composition and personal expression using creative camera settings and free apps that can be downloaded to a smart phone. Learn the functions smart cameras can do—framing the subject and the scene, portrait photography, stopping motion or blurring action using apertures and shutter speeds. We will use the Bergen Community campus and fellow students to capture imagery. We will work with Adobe Lightroom to crop and adjust exposures, learn from each other through group discussions, and make prints of our images. An iPhone or Android smart phone is required for this class. Basic computer and mouse skills are required.

Runs 1PM – 4PM in Week 2 and Week 5 

Almost everyone has an iPhone or Android camera and takes photos. This course teaches the fundamentals for making digital photos better. Learn the basics of composition and personal expression using creative camera settings and free apps that can be downloaded to a smart phone. Learn the functions smart cameras can do—framing the subject and the scene, portrait photography, stopping motion or blurring action using apertures and shutter speeds. We will use the Bergen Community campus and fellow students to capture imagery. We will work with Adobe Lightroom to crop and adjust exposures, learn from each other through group discussions, and make prints of our images. An iPhone or Android smart phone is required for this class. Basic computer and mouse skills are required.

A week of an exploratory class designed to introduce students to basic hand building techniques in ceramics using (self-drying) clay. Students will focus on creativity and self-expression and recognize and use the art element (form). They will build pinch pots, coil designs and slab forms. 

Energy is essential to almost everything we do, from the lights in our homes and classrooms to the gasoline that fuels our cars. Students will be introduced to the world of energy in all its amazing forms. This class explores many sources of energy from wind and solar power to biofuel and fossil fuel. Students will define terms like renewable, landfill, greenhouse effect and generate and build moving models of just some of the awesome ways we power our world. 

Grades 3 – 5 runs from 9AM – 12PM in Week 2 and Grades 6 – 8 runs from 9AM – 12PM in Week 6

Make your love of writing come to life by revealing the writer within you! Learn a combination of skills that will assist you in finding your voice in your own writing. Learn the building blocks of great writing, good word choice, key techniques and terms including the four types of genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Practice using imagery, point of view, mood, metaphors, and many more literary terms. Topics are developed according to students’ interests.

Students will work with either oil or acrylic on canvas, gain an understanding of how to approach and interpret the complex world of landscape. Working from nature, drawings and photographs, learn how to use composition, perspective, tone, color, light and texture to gain desired effects. 

Grades 1 -5 runs from 9AM – 12PM in Week 2 and from 1PM – 4PM in Week 4
Grades 5 – 8 runs from 9AM – 12PM in Week 2

LEGO enthusiasts, have fun building your favorite adventure from the many themes that Lego has to offer. We will offer projects from Lego Star Wars, City, Architecture, Friends, Creator, and many NEW themes. Projects will vary depending on availability from LEGO headquarters but will include age-appropriate new models. Campers will also build a wide assortment of LEGO Education technic machines and create their own projects that illustrate science concepts. Examples include cranes, remote controlled cars, a piano player, and many more. We will also have Lego Robotics. Students will bring home one Lego model at the end of the week.

Each day our Jr. Chefs will make a different flavored frosting then learn some cool decorating techniques like piping, working with fondant and making cake balls. They will bring home their own beautifully decorated creation!  Light snacks will be provided to enjoy in class too! Peanut and Tree Nut Free. 

Week 2: Runs 1PM – 4PM; Week 4: Runs 9AM – 12PM; Week 5: Runs 9AM – 12PM

Take to the skies with mini drones, quadcopters, and more! This camp is the perfect introduction to the world of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this camp, safety is a priority as students learn to fly in first-person view (FPV), exploring the real-world applications of drones. Putting critical thinking to the test, campers will brainstorm ways drones could be used for good, sketching out their ideas for new and innovative drones and drone uses. Campers will also experiment with paper planes, flying gadgets, rockets, gyroscopes, physics toys, balloon cars, and much more. All students will take home their own mini-drone.

Mock Trial Grades 6 – 8 runs from 9AM – 4PM in Week 2 and again in Week 6 from 9AM – 4PM

Guilty or innocent? In this class, students will learn the elements of public speaking, principles of the court system, and how to debate the pro and con side of an issue. Students will serve as either a member of the prosecution, the defense, a witness, or a judge. At the end of the class a jury of your peers will deliberate and decide the fate of the accused. 

Week 2: Grades 2 – 6 runs from 9AM – 4PM 
Week 3: Grades 2 – 6 runs from 9AM – 4PM

A traditional art in Spanish culture is piñata making. This messy and long process craft is also fun and creative. This class will teach you the step-by-step process. During the week you will create simple to more complex piñatas. Once finished, projects are taken home for you to enjoy! Note: bring a smock or old t-shirt to use during class. 

Want to learn the world’s fastest-growing programming language favored by Google, NASA, YouTube, and the CIA? Learn how to code with Python to create engaging apps and games. Each lesson takes you step-by-step on a programming path that will let you challenge friends with fun content you create from start to finish! Returning students can create more advanced projects that build on previous years. 

Want to learn the world’s fastest-growing programming language favored by Google, NASA, Youtube, and the CIA?  ​Learn how to code with Python to create engaging apps and games.  Each lesson takes you step-by-step on a programming path that will let you challenge friends with fun content you create from start to finish!​ Returning students can create more advanced projects that build on previous years​.  

Students will develop a thorough knowledge and understanding of the Spanish culture through interactive projects based on the highly awarded cultural film Encanto. You will know, develop, and use communication skills to understand and express yourself in Spanish. You will learn the skills necessary to achieve proper communicative interaction in the Spanish language, taking into account cultural, social, and diversity aspects. 

Grades 3 – 5 runs 1PM – 4PM in Week 2 and Grades 6 – 8 runs 1PM – 4PM in Week 6

Do you want to get your summer reading and reading work finished quickly? Then this is the class for you! Bring your school’s approved novel and any assigned work that goes along with it. We will create a reading plan for the week to ensure that you will finish reading your summer reading book quickly and effectively! You will be taught different reading strategies throughout the week to help you become a better reader and to avoid the “summer slide.”

Learn how to research your business venture, create a business plan, design your product or service, market and sell your idea! You will learn various new computer skills as you embark on the journey of designing your own business!