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The Tech Summer Camps

Below are the summer staff opportunities available at The Tech Museum Summer Camps (rising 4th-8th graders). After reviewing positions, submit your application by clicking the "APPLY" link below the appropriate role. There will be a place on your application to indicate other positions in which you are interested.

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  • SUMMER INTERN (pre-K -rising 8th)

    Galileo offers a paid summer internship program for high school students age 16 or older. If you love camp and are interested in being a camp counselor some day, this is an opportunity you don't want to miss! As a Summer Intern, you will be supporting the Camp Director and staff where needed, including helping out in the office, playing with kids in the classroom and participating in all-camp games and ceremonies.

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  • ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR (rising 5th - 8th)

    Assistant Instructors are typically college students or recent graduates who have the unique ability to motivate kids and inspire creativity in middle school students. They are an integral part of the classroom support system, providing instructional and classroom management support to Lead Instructors. Assistant Instructors must combine a love for innovation and learning with patience, energy, and a positive attitude. They should also be team players, excited to work in a fun and fast paced environment.

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  • OPERATIONS COORDINATOR (pre-K - rising 8th)

    The Operations Coordinator provides administrative support to the Camp Director and the entire camp staff. The ideal candidate is someone who is highly organized, can multi-task, takes initiative, is computer savvy, and has project management experience. As an Operations Coordinator, you will support the Camp Director with administrative projects such as camper check-in, staff scheduling and lunch supervision. You will work with a staff of exceptionally talented, fun, and friendly people to help create the summer of a lifetime for campers and staff alike!

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  • ASSISTANT CAMP DIRECTOR (pre-K - rising 8th)

    Assistant Camp Directors work closely with their Camp Director to provide overall leadership for camp programs. Assistant Camp Directors manage staff and lead many camp activities, often including the camp's Extended Care program. You will spend your summer building a program that will have a positive and unforgettable impact on campers and staff, while enhancing your own professional development. And, you will have a ton of fun too!

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  • CIRCUITS AND ELECTRONICS INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Campers will get inside their gadgets by learning the circuit theory that makes them work! Use snap together circuits, batteries, conductive materials, motors and lights to create circuits they can use at home.

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  • COASTERS AND CONTRAPTIONS INSTRUCTOR (Rising 3rd - 8th)

    Teach kids how to uncover the physics behind those complex loops, twists, and tricks in roller coasters and Rube Goldberg machines! With your campers you will solve real-world Design Challenges, and use your knowledge of Newton's Laws and centripetal/centrifugal motion to create your own coasters and contraptions.

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  • COMPUTER PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Teach our campers all about computer language, code, and logic through Java and Scratch, a programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab. Help them unravel the mysteries of variables, loops, conditional statements, debugging, patterns, and more, and by week's end, they'll be able to take their new knowledge and skills to design interactive games and graphics.

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  • FILMMAKING INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Dive into the filmmaking process and teach how to storyboard, script, direct, act, and edit. Use cutting-edge equipment and software, including green screens and iMovie, to help our campers record and perfect their masterpiece.

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  • FORENSIC SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Love mysteries, puzzles, the board game Clue? Come and teach our campers how to become scientific detectives and piece together stray codes, fingerprints, mathematical indicators, lab samples, psychological studies, and subtle evidence to solve even the hardest cases. Teach about logic, analysis, and deduction to conquer the next criminal investigation!

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  • INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Ever pick up your stapler or toothpaste tube and wonder why it looks or works that way? Teach about the complex and exciting process of product design! Help campers use their imagination and acquired knowledge to improve upon common (or not-so-common) items, and work as a consulting team of design experts to create and modify the perfect product. You'll get to brainstorm, tinker, draw, fix, dismantle, survey, build, test, and re-build with kids!

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  • INVENTORS WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR (Rising 3rd - 8th)

    This is the ultimate Design Challenge class. Help our campers develop their electrical and mechanical engineering skills by designing devices, dismantling equipment and inspecting their intricate insides, and wiring new creations to take home.

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  • JUNIOR SURGEONS INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Teach our campers all about the biological secrets of the human body, how surgeries and sutures really work, and the realities of an emergency room — including triage, diagnoses and operations.

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  • KITCHEN CHEMISTRY INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Love chemistry and the magical reactions between ordinary substances? Come and teach the ingredients and secrets of your kitchen cupboards. You’ll learn to cook, mix, poke, experiment (and taste!) yummy creations and understand how these ingredients interact with one another. Dig into the intricate molecular properties of food and chemistry!

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  • LEGO ROBOTICS INSTRUCTOR (Rising 3rd - 8th)

    Use the latest Lego Mindstorm NXT software and Technic building pieces to build and program robots to take on real-world design challenges. Create a robot that can survive natural disasters, retrieve objects, execute difficult tasks, and battle other robots!

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  • MISSION: TECH INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Our Camper's Mission: Become a museum innovator and design their own gallery for The Tech Museum! Set off on an exploration through our world-class facilities, and help our campers delve into current galleries through a week-long museum quest and related Design Challenge activities. By week's end, their innovative ideas and pursuits will be displayed in a new gallery on the museum floor!

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  • MOBILE APP DEVELOPER INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Help campers become a registered developer and design web apps for Apple mobile devices. In this full-day class, campers will discover what makes mobile apps uniquely mobile, learn different coding languages and invent their very own app!

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  • MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTOR (Rising 3rd - 8th)

    Along with keyboards, drum pads, and recording studios, work with a combination of the latest software, including GarageBand, to teach our campers how to create their own tunes and modify existing ones. Teach the basics of music composition as well as important techniques and details behind sequencing, editing, sampling, loops, and other audio concepts.

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  • PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Take campers behind the lens, and develop their photographic eye! Teach about image composition, aperture, and perspective through various shoots and assignments. With your help, campers will become experts at using digital SLR cameras to capture portraits, action shots, sweeping urban landscapes, and detailed close-ups.

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  • TECHNO CHEF INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Work with campers as they learn how technology intersects with the culinary arts, investigating its role in taking your food from farm to fork, keeping products preserved on the shelf and inspiring the wacky wonders of molecular gastronomy.

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  • VIDEO GAME DESIGN INSTRUCTOR (Rising 3rd - 8th)

    First, there was PONG. Now over 30 years later we are still being caught up in the fun of video games. Using our curriculum as a guide, and Multimedia Fusion software as your tools, you can teach your class how to create their very own video game.

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  • WEB AND MOBILE GAME DESIGN INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Dive into game design for web and mobile environments, using GameSalad to explore different genres, styles and mechanics. Campers will walk away with an account that lets you share your own custom games with the world.

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  • WEB DESIGN AND USABILITY INSTRUCTOR (rising 4th - 8th)

    Use Adobe Dreamweaver and other software to teach the basics of web page construction; then, incorporate the Internet's newest "Web 2.0" elements of social networking, web applications, and multimedia collaboration. Help our camper investigate how to use these tools in the safest, best, and most creative ways. At the end of the week, celebrate with a launch party!

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