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This summer, encourage the awesome in your child at iD Tech summer programs. Photo courtesy of iD Tech
This summer, encourage the awesome in your child at iD Tech summer programs. Photo courtesy of iD Tech
2/11/25 - By Laurie Rein

STEM summer day camps in New Jersey promise a summer of fun for budding scientists, engineers, and computer programmers, so we've rounded up the best NJ has to offer.

For more on summer camps in New Jersey, bookmark our New Jersey Summer Camp Guide and Camp Directory, where you can search for summer camps by type, age, and town. 

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STEM Summer Day Camps in New Jersey

Storming Robots

Branchburg
Ages 10-18
Storming Robots offers engaging, results-oriented STEM courses and camps specifically tailored to middle and high schools students. Classes focus on engineering challenges you won't typically find in grade-school curricula, like robotics engineering, computational thinking, and computer programming. Meanwhile summer camp hones in on software development, robotics, and computer vision. READ MORE

Club SciKidz North Central New Jersey

Multiple NJ locations
Ages 4-14
Club SciKidz themes include astronomy, meteorology, sea adventures, climate change, veterinary medicine, robotics, Marvel stop-motion animation, chemistry, rocketry, wizarding world (Harry Potter), medicine, and surgery–to name a few.  READ MORE

Game Camp Nation - New Jersey

Morristown & Saddle River
Ages 9-19
Creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration: Game Camp Nation emphasizes the 4 C's needed for success in today’s media-driven world. This educational game studio for kids and teens offers in-person summer day camps, sleepaway camps, and year-round online lessons for aspiring game designers, programmers, and artists of all skill levels. READ MORE

Montclair Learning Center Camps

Bloomfield
Ages 3-12
Campers can explore STEM concepts through themes like Code Academy, Maker Lab, STEAM/Engineering and Chess. STEM Camp is available for students entering first through sixth grades. Full and half day options are available. Little Engineers Camp offers 3-5 year olds a summer of hands-on and engaging activities developing their creativity, curiosity, problem-solving, critical thinking, communications, and teamwork skills.   READ MORE

Little Ivy Academy STEAM Camps

Ridgewood
Ages 6-14
This summer, your camper can build and code Lego robots, create electronic spy gadgets, learn to code, craft digital spy gadgets, craft digital stop animation videos, and much more. Traditional summer day camp activities are included, too, getting kids outdoors daily.  READ MORE

Buehler Challenger & Science Center

Paramus
Ages 4-18
Blast off into a summer of space exploration, flying object creation, and simulated space missions at Buehler's summer camps. Groups are arranged by age, with full days for the older space explorers. Camp groups include Little Astronauts, Is There Life in the Universe, Rocket Girls and more.  READ MORE

Science Summer Camp at Liberty Science Center

Jersey City
Ages 6-14
Where better to build STEM skills than this well-known, science-focused museum? Campers at Liberty Science Center explore weekly topics that include Creative Engineers, Animal Detectives, Mind Games, CSI: LSC, Explore the Planets, Drone Flight School and more.  READ MORE

Lavner Summer Camp

Cherry Hill
Ages 6-14
Lavner Summer Camp focuses on hands-on learning, collaboration, excitement, and cutting-edge topics in STEM, technology, and the arts. Topics include Graphic Design, Coding, Roblox, Minecraft, YouTube, 3D Printing and more.  READ MORE

Code Ninjas Norwood-Northern Valley

Norwood and other NJ locations
Ages 5-14
At Code Ninjas, kids learn to code through an engaging, game-based curriculum that teaches teamwork, logic, math, and problem-solving. Roblox, Minecraft and AI are the focus of some of the summer camp's programs. READ MORE

Snapology of Monmouth County

Tinton Falls
Ages 2-12
Animal robotics, space science, video game design, Pokemania, and STEAM programs are just some of the offerings from Snapology's summer camp program. Half- and full-day programs are offered. READ MORE

Genius Gems

Millburn
Ages 5-12
At Genius Gems, educators use hands-on learning to lead kids in topics that include science wonder lab, witches and wizards Camp, rainbow and magic potions, Lego brick engineering, and more. Summer camps, for grades K-6, offer themed weekly sessions with early drop-off and aftercare options.   READ MORE

iD Tech Summer Programs

Multiple NJ locations
Ages 7-18
Kids can explore a prestigious college campus while making friends and mastering new tech skills. At iD Tech camps, students ages 7-18 learn to code, design video games, produce videos, mod Minecraft, create with Roblox, build laptops, learn about cybersecurity, and more. READ MORE

Code Wiz Rutherford

East Rutherford
Ages 7-14
Ignite your child's passion for technology, coding, and robotics with hands-on experiences at Code Wiz. Check out school holiday camps and summer camps centered around topics like robots, Legos and Minecraft. READ MORE

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Laurie Rein
Laurie Rein is passionate about finding fun (especially free!) activities for her twin daughters. Before joining Mommy Poppins New Jersey, Laurie worked in the television industry, with roles as an NBC page, copywriter, affiliate liaison for The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and research manager for CBS.
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