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Join us for our Summer Camp sessions of Mad Science!
Biddeford Recreation is excited to collaborate with Mad Science for summer 2025! We are offering the following Mad Science camps:
Spy Academy: June 16-June 20, 2025
Astro Innovators: August 18-22, 2025
These camps are a great opportunity to explore new science themes and are also offered during weeks when Biddeford Recreation summer day camps are not in session, providing a great option for camp opportunities! See below for session descriptions and info! Don't wait! Limited seats so register today!
Questions, please contact: Brittany.hall@biddefordmaine.org
For more information about Mad Science Camps, please visit:
maine.madscience.org/parents or call (207) 878-2222
Spy Academy: June 2025
This program features fun-filled, hands-on, secret agent themes science activities that allow kids to play detective, explore forensic science, sharpen their surveillance skills, and crack encrypted messages. Kids become super sleuths!
Who: Students in grades K-6, for school year 2025-2026
Dates: June 16-June 20, 2025 (4-day program - there is no class on Thursday, June 19)
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Registration Fee: $320.00/resident; $335.00/non-resident
Location: J. Richard Martin Community Center, 189 Alfred Street - Biddeford
Astro Innovators: August 2025
Set your future space explorers on a trajectory from Earth's atmosphere to the outer reaches of our solar system! This hands-on program brings them closer to the stars, planets, comets, and more. They learn about living in space, getting away from gravity, looking for space phenomena, and they participate in a rocket launch!
Who: Students in grades K-6, for school year 2025-2026
Dates: August 18-22, 2025 (5-day program)
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Registration Fee: $400.00/resident; $425.00/non-resident
Location: Rotary Park Teen Center building
Additional Details for Mad Science Summer Camps
Early Drop-off: Parents may drop off their child as early as 8:45 AM.
Late Fee: If a parent is more than 10 minutes late to pick up a child, a late fee will be charged at a rate of $1/minute. Payment is due to the Mad Science Instructor directly and should be given on the day of late pick-up or by the next morning before camp starts.
Lunch is not included in the registration fee. Participants are required to bring their own packed lunch and snacks with them.
Mad Science programs are contracted services and not eligible for discounts, scholarships or refunds.