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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I am too poor to send my kids to STEM camp so I share my interests with them myself. [/b]I have a telescope and invite them to take a look. Visiting museums of all kinds. Collecting minerals. Growing plants.
My kids aren't particularly interested but I have a niece who is. My parents were not scientific either -- I got it from my uncle. So just be prepared that your kids might not like what you do.[/quote]

At these ages they get more out of being taught by a parent than from being shepherded around by a bored teenage “counselor” [/quote]

I second this.  I had a friend who loved to hear about my "camp fail" stories.  Those were mostly when my kids' paid camps overpromised and underdelivered.  Here are two favorites:

1) Wilderness Survival Day Camp.  Mostly consisted of using a compass at a local park.  I came home and found a dirty wet tube sock in a sandwich bag on the powder room sink.  When I asked about it, my kid told me it was a new sock full of activated carbon that they were shown how to assemble to filter drinking water.  I was flabbergasted at the b.s.  Not appetizing, practical, or functional.  Hard for me to imagine the desperate situation in which anyone would find this their best option AND be packing activated charcoal.

2) Day camp "terrarium" craft.  Take one styrofoam cup.  Dig a weed out of the park next to the community center where the camp was held. Put it in the cup. Voila!  A take-home terrarium!

Mom with no money to pay for STEM camp, you're gonna be fine.  You could match some of these camps with a $25 science kit, a library book about kid science experiments, and a few grocery items.  Many of them are expensive rationalizations because we have to park our kids so we can work.
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