Hopkins Community Education

Hands on cake baking and decorating. Learning professional cake decorating skills used by the best pastry chefs creating your own master piece including your very own Icing recipe and more! Bring containers to bring home your creations.

We will go back to the classics in this Camp Crafts and Games camp! Make a tie dye shirt, learn how to create friendship bracelets, use nature to make an awesome art creation and much more! Each day will also include classic camp games, such as capture the flag and kickball. Have a favorite camp activity? Bring it to Camp Royal!

Camp Invention’s new program, Discover, is an inspiring, week long summer experience that provides opportunities for open-ended, hands-on exploration of science, technology, engineering, and more! Campers take on a variety of exhilarating activities each day, have fun collaborating with friends, think creatively and invent their own solutions to real-world challenges. The all-new 2025 program will spark the imagination of both new and returning campers with an adventure full of inspiration, innovation and unforgettable discoveries! During this action-packed, confidence-boosting program, young innovators will: Use physics and engineering in Claw Arcade to make a DIY claw machine and explore entrepreneurship principles as they hook investors on their arcade experiences. Be introduced to optical illusions and create their own spinning animation device in Illusion Workshop and become special effects experts. Discover how Artificial Intelligence is imbedded in everyday road trip items like GPS and rise to the challenge to create their own Control Panel to send secret morse code messages in In Control. Embark on an eco-expedition with Snow-ver in Penguin Launch. Snow-ver is a robotic research penguin that campers will use to investigate penguin habitats while creating flippers and launchers to propel their own plush magnetic penguins across the South Pole.

Get ready to dive into the exciting world of chess this summer! In our Chess Tactics Course at Mathnasium, you’ll learn fun strategies that will make you a chess master, no matter your starting level. You’ll discover cool moves like forks, pins, and skewers while playing games with friends. Each lesson is designed to help you think critically and solve problems while having a great time! As you play, you’ll also learn important math skills like patterns and logic that will help you on and off the board. Don’t miss this chance to boost your confidence and chess skills! Sign up today and join the fun!

Get ready for a summer filled with creativity and fun in our Engineering Marvels program! You’ll embark on exciting challenges like designing your own roller coasters using pool noodles, creating colorful paper airplanes to see whose flies the farthest, and building sturdy towers from everyday materials like blocks and straws. While you play, you’ll discover how math helps with shapes, counting, and measuring—all while working together with your friends! Don’t miss out on the adventure!

This summer, join us for a fun and interactive Financial Management course designed just for you! You’ll learn all about money in a way that’s exciting and easy to understand. From budgeting your allowance to saving for a cool new toy, you’ll discover how to make smart choices with your money. Our friendly instructors will help you set goals and develop great money habits through games and activities that make learning fun! Don’t miss this chance to become a money whiz and gain skills that will help you now and in the future! Sign up today to start your journey to financial confidence!

Calling all secret agents! During this camp, you will complete a variety of daily missions including escape rooms, decoding messages and completing intricate missions. By the end you will know how to be apart of any team and be a problem solving pro.

Spend a week exploring all the fun activities the twin cities has to offer! Field trip schedule: Monday, August 18: Cinema Grill Tuesday, August 19: St. Louis Park Aquatic Center Wednesday: August 20: MN Zoo Thursday, August 21: Target Field tour and Twins Game. Students should bring a nut-free bag lunch each day, along with a water bottle and snacks. Students will be dropped off and picked up at the Eisenhower Community Center.

Interested in movies and how they are made? Make your own movie, from start to finish, using iPads. Students will write a movie script, shoot and direct, edit the film, then showcase their movie at The Movie Premier on the last day of camp. Students will learn the ins and outs of the details that go into making, producing and filming a real movie!

Spend your week at Camp Royal interviewing campers, taking pictures and creating a Camp Royal newspaper, all centered around a busy camp with lots of activities! The Camp Royal newspaper will be handed out to campers on the last day of camp.

Bring your artistic side to this creative camp! Campers will create masterpieces on canvas, design and create a weight-bearing bridge, and design their own projects throughout the week.