All Access Maker Camp is a fun week of exploring the Intrepid Museum, solving problems, experimenting with new tools and technology, designing projects and making friends! This camp is specifically for children and teens ages 8–14 with developmental disabilities, including autism.
The camp provides an in-depth learning opportunity for campers to practice social-emotional skills, including problem-solving, communication and collaboration. Campers try out design challenges related to the ship, aircraft and space, and they go behind the scenes to meet with experts.
All staff and interns are specially trained in working with children with disabilities in a museum setting. Visual schedules, illustrated instructions, multisensory opportunities and clear expectations help campers transition into the week, focus on the tasks at hand and have fun.
Campers learn about and use a wide range of materials, both low-tech (LEGOs, clay, foil, craft supplies) and high-tech (robotics kits, computer-assisted design software and 3D printers), as they solve problems, experiment and innovate.
All sessions are one week, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM each day. Campers may attend ONE session:
For First Time Campers:
Spring: April 22 - 26, 2024
Summer: August 19 - 23, 2024
For Previous All Access Maker Camp Campers:
Camp 2.0: August 26 - 30, 2024 (See Camp 2.0 for more information)
$75 for the week (includes all materials and snacks). Lunch and transportation are not provided
Enrollment is by online application. Submitting an application does not guarantee acceptance. Museum staff select applicants based on their level of interest in the material, past experience, financial need and the overall dynamic of the group.
The application requires submitting the child’s most recent Individualized Education Program (IEP) or similar documentation. Campers must be able eat and use the toilet independently.
For spring session (April 22-26, 2024): Applications are due on Tuesday, February 13, 2024.
For summer session (August 19-23, 2024): Applications are due by Sunday, April 28, 2024.
If your child previously attended All Access Maker Camp, please do not apply for the above sessions for first-time campers. Please see below for information on Camp 2.0 for previous campers.
All Access Maker Camp 2.0 welcomes previous campers, up to age 18, back for another week of solving problems, experimenting with tools and technology, and designing projects! Campers will expand on the sea, air and space design challenges and social-emotional skill-building from their first session.
They will revisit low and high-tech tools and materials and try out new ones. Campers will have the opportunity to dig deeper into their favorite topics and have fun in a now-familiar setting where there is still much to discover.
Dates:
August 26 - 30, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM each day
Cost:
$75 for the week (includes all materials and snacks). Lunch and transportation are not provided.
How to apply
Enrollment is by online application. Museum staff select applicants based on their level of interest in the material, past experience, financial need and the overall dynamic of the group.
As some time has passed since your child attended All Access Maker Camp, we ask that you share updated information in the application, which requires submitting your child’s most recent Individualized Education Program (IEP) or similar documentation. Campers may be up to age 18.
Applications are due by Sunday, April 28, 2024
All Access Maker Camp at the Intrepid Museum is generously funded by the J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation and The Barker Welfare Foundation. The Museum’s education programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
