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First satellite camp for Sask Science Centre

The Saskatchewan Science Centre is trying something new. They’ve done a camp for kids for years, but now they’re taking that camp on the road, coming to Yorkton for their first satellite day camp.
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The Saskatchewan Science Centre is trying something new. They’ve done a camp for kids for years, but now they’re taking that camp on the road, coming to Yorkton for their first satellite day camp.

Casey Sakires with the Saskatchewan Science Centre says that they want to reflect the fact that they have Saskatchewan in the name, and as a result they should reach the entire province. 

“We are taking activities, the best of the best that work at the day camps at the Science Centre here.”

It’s a wide range of activities, relating to Canada, the earth, the human body and surprise science. Kids will design their own baseball gloves, drill for oil, look at the arches of their feet and design shoes and play games that show kids the importance of taking all of their antibiotics, and more. Sakires describes it as a greatest hits of activities from the Science Centre’s other camps.

“Really fun activities that cover a wide variety of topics.”

While kids will be learning, all the activities are very hands on and interactive, and their goal is to make science something that kids look forward to and find fun, Sakires explains.

“We really stress that we aren’t a science school but we are a summer camp.”

The decision to do a satellite camp in Yorkton began with a conversation between someone from the Science Centre and Joelle Bohn, who wanted to bring new activities to kids in Yorkton. Since the Science Centre wanted to reach kids outside of Regina, the conversation lead to a satellite camp here.

This is the first satellite day camp, but Sakires hopes that this will be a regular summer event for the Saskatchewan Science Centre, both for Yorkton and for other communities in the province. 

“Hopefully we can take this one and build on it, making it bigger and better to continue growing.”

The camp is for children aged 8-13, and goes for four days from August 22 to 25. The cost will be  $170 for members, $210 for non-members. The camp will be held at 27 2nd Avenue, Yorkton and runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.