CCSP and CMR facilitate collaborative and individual research projects, in addition to promoting the exchange of ideas between the public and the scientific, educational, and industrial communities. Summer Science Camps. Flandrau Science Center's summer science camps introduce youngsters ages 4-12 to the marvels of science. Students learn about electricity, rocket launches, kitchen chemistry, fossilized life, traveling through the cosmos and more. Field trips to Flandrau Science Center are offered for classroom groups.
Programs are available for children from the preschool through high school levels.
Groups can schedule a time to spend a night at Flandrau Science Center. Overnighters participate in science activities and demonstrations related to a variety of themes and then sleep surrounded by the hands-on exhibits in the museum. Kindergarten to High School students participate in local school fairs from Yuma to New Mexico and south of Phoenix to the Mexican border. More than 1,000 experiments are selected for exhibition in the Bear Down Gymnasium on the UA campus in Tucson during the Fair s competition and the event is sponsored by Flandrau during Spring Break. The top two High School students receive both scholarship support and an expense paid trip to the International Science and Engineering Fair.