2026 Summer STEM Camps
Registration is now live for our 2026 College of STEM Summer Camps! Choose your adventure and get ready to explore with Austin Peay faculty and students.
Space Explorers Camp
- Dates: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. each day June 22-26.
- Cost: $300. All supplies, snacks and lunches included in the cost.
- Register at: The APSU Marketplace Page
- Offered by: APSU's Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy.
Austin Peay State University's Space Explorer Camp is back for another session in Summer 2026, running from June 22-26.
The camp, designed for students from 10-14 years old, will be a full-day, weeklong day camp focused on space exploration and astronomy.
The camp will provide campers with the opportunity to learn about planets, stars and what is up in the sky while also engaging in fun and exciting activities such as building telescopes, making craters and launching water bottle rockets.
Students will:
- Spend a full day at the APSU Observatory learning about telescopes. Students will build their own telescopes and use telescopes to safely view the sun.
- Explore the night sky using the school’s 20-inch professional telescope and other smaller telescopes. The specific night will depend on sky conditions.
- Build and launch water bottle rockets and learn the basics of rocketry.
- Use computer-based activities and the Robert Sears Planetarium to learn about basic motions in the sky and constellations.
- Spend a full day exploring the planets of our solar system, learning about their size, characteristics, compositions and distance from the sun.
- Learn how craters are made and make craters themselves in simulated planetary bombardments.
- Handle meteorites from space!
- Build a 3D-printed model of the James Webb Space Telescope and learn about other NASA space observatories.
- Learn about comets and make their own homemade comets using dry ice and items like syrup, window cleaner, dirt, baking soda and other things that can be found around the house.
Data Science Camp
- Dates: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. each day June 1-5.
- Cost: $99. All supplies, snacks and lunches included in the cost.
- Register at: The APSU Marketplace Page!
- Offered by: APSU's Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Austin Peay State University will once again host its Data Science Camp in Summer 2026, with the half-day camps scheduled to begin June 1.
The camp, designed for rising 4th-8th graders, will be a half-day (1:30 pm – 4:30 pm), weeklong day camp focused on statistics and other data science-related topics.
The camp will provide campers with the opportunity to participate in fun, hands-on group activities that introduce them to the limitless world of data. Campers will learn how to collect and unlock insights from data, appreciate the power of data syntax while building confidence and awareness in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills.
Campers will also learn critical thinking, problems solving, teamwork and approach challenges like a data sleuth by asking the right questions, collecting information, analyzing data and displaying results.
Students will:
- Collect and record data using standard and non-standard measurements.
- Display data through tables, charts, and graphs.
- Identify trends, patterns and draw comparisons from data.
- Make data driven predictions.
- Present data insights.
- Some of the camp activities include exploring the proportion of flying helicopters, tree age exploration, skittle colors, movie rating analysis etc.
Summer Coding Camps
- Dates: Several dates throughout the summer.
- Cost: $139 or $149. Snacks and drinks provided.
- Register at: Coming soon!
- Offered by: APSU's Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Austin Peay offers week-long summer coding camps opened to students in third-grade to those entering their first year of college. The camps are half a day over five days, and all equipment is provided in the university's state-of-the-art PC labs.
Camps include:
- Minecraft.
- Roblox.
- Visioncraft.
- Website-building.
- Programs and games from scratch.
- 3D videogame development.