Summer Camps

Looking for something for your child to do over the summer? How about spending it at our Aerosummer Camps?

The San Diego Air & Space Museum offers a variety of half-day, week-long summer programs. These classes teach air and space history and science through hands-on activities such as designing and building model airplanes, launching model rockets, and flying simulators.

Our summer camps normally run Monday- Friday from 9am-Noon, late June to late August.

Below is a list of the camps the museum will be offering this upcoming summer.

We will being taking registrations on April 1st.

Click here to download a registration from.

For more information, call the Education Department at (619) 234-8291, ext. 119.

If you are looking for an afternoon camp for your child to attend after a SDASM camp, please click here to see the various afternoon camps offered by other institutions throughout the park. The students are delivered from one camp to another, meaning you do not have to return in the middle of the day.

Aerosummer Camps 2008

First Flight
Grades 1-2
$100 (Members $80)
August 18-22, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
Students make a timeline, build and launch paper rockets, and participate in other fun activities that introduce them to aviation and space flight.

Up, Up, and Away
Grades 1-2
$100 (Members $80)
June 23-27, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
Another fun option for our younger students! This program explores flight through making and flying balloons, kites, gliders, rockets, and more.

Silent Flight
Grades 3-4
$100 (Members $80)
July 21-25, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
Students try out different kite designs, build hot air balloons, and experiment with gliders as they investigate ways of traveling on the wind.

Destination Mars
Grades 3-4
$100 (Members $80)
July 7-11, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
Come explore Mars with us! Learn the history of our fascination with the Red Planet, learn how to drive a rover on Mars, search for life, and build and launch an aquarocket.

Flights of Fancy *Family Camp*
Grades 4-Adult
$30
June 21, North County, 9:30-3:30
This fun one-day camp is now for kids AND adults! Don't just drop off your child - with this camp you get to join the fun. Spend Saturday together flying radio-controlled model aircraft and driving radio-controlled cars with members of the Palomar RC Flyers. Campers of all ages will also build and fly a rubber powered model. Program cost is for 1 child and 1 adult, and includes lunch.

Space Adventures
Grades 5-6
$100 (Members $80)
August 11-15, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
From the Chinese "fire arrows" to the International Space Station, students learn about the people and spacecraft that have made space exploration possible. They also apply space science by building and launching their own model rockets.

Aviation Simulations
Grades 5-12
$100 (Members $80)
August 25-29, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
Finally, computer games used for education! Students will learn the basics of flight, navigation, and instrumentation while testing their skills on computer simulators. Additional simulators will be used throughout the week along with instruction by actual pilots. Great for the future aviator.

Extreme Rocketry
Grades 5-12
$100 (Members $80)
July 28-August 1, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
An exciting advanced rocketry project for students who are familiar with rocketry or have experience in model building. Students construct individual rockets and work in teams to build a multi-stage rocket.

Wright Flyer to Right Now
Grades 5-12
$100 (Members $80)
July 14-18, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
Learn the history of aviation from da Vinci to space flight using our simulators! Students will engage in daily hands-on activities and end each day flying historical planes on our simulators. This is a great camp for the future pilot and a great way to learn history in a fun way.

Aerospace Investigations **SOLD OUT
Grade 5-12
$100 (Members $80)
August 4-8, Balboa Park, 9:00-12:00
Come explore aviation history through fun hands-on activities at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Students will build and fly kites, hot air balloons, paper airplanes, and bottle rockets while discovering the museum's treasures.