The Summer Music Camp at Ocean County College offers students an opportunity to explore the multi-faceted world of classical music under the guidance of skilled and experienced instructors. We provide students with an intense performance-based music-making experience focused on master classes, guided practice, and ensemble experience. Students will also receive daily group classes in music theory and history, opening a window to the great composers and their masterworks while covering concepts essential for developing their own musicianship.

Students will be divided into groups based on age and skill level, and will be instructed by Brian Gilmore and Katherine Roselli.

A native of Toms River, Brian Gilmore holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in piano performance. As a lecturer at Ocean County College, he oversees the applied music program, has revitalized the classical recital series, and regularly collaborates with faculty, students, and area musicians. Through his work as an educator and performer, he aims to nurture musical awareness and understanding in the community, while ensuring that students with a desire to excel in music are afforded that opportunity.

Katherine Roselli began playing the violin while living in Poland. After moving to the U.S. at age 16, she played in high school and university orchestras.  Katherine pursued her music studies at Mannes College of Music under Barbara Krakauer and Kean University under Sharon Roffman. She performed in orchestras and summer camps affiliated with the Paris Conservatory of Music in France. Today, Katherine teaches orchestra in Toms River and leads the OCC Preparatory Youth Orchestra.

For ages 12-18.

Secret Agent Lab - Funky Forensics

Step into the shoes of a detective— uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis. Using your observational skills, collect evidence and analyze the clues left behind. Recreate the scene of a crime using schematics. Use science to connect the dots and help sniff out the suspects in this hands-on investigation into the science of sleuthing!

Launching with Legends

Anyone can be an inventor! Discover the work of da Vinci, Edison, Tesla, and Benjamin Franklin and use what you learn to invent solutions to everyday problems. You’ll prepare a proposal and receive a patent certificate for your very own invention. Build your own catapult, and even launch projectiles off a large trebuchet! You’ll bring home countless cool inventions and a squadron of paper airplanes the Wright brothers would be proud of!

For ages 8-12.

Campers must wear sneakers each day.

LEGO™ BRIXOLOGY

Our LEGO™ BRIXOLOGY camp was developed in partnership with LEGO™ Master Builders! Team up to build exclusive creations that will test your engineering abilities! Build carnival rides, paddle boats, mechanical animals, and even a vehicle that moves. Try your hand at nautical, structural, and even biomechanical engineering! Let the tinkering begin!

Mad Machines and Rocking Rockets

Whether you enjoy building or destroying structures, you’ll love this camp! Work with simple machines such as pulleys, wedges, screws, and levers, to build your own catapults! Experiment with tessellation with triangles and cubes. Exercise your ability to work with others while constructing a geodesic dome big enough for everyone to fit inside! Let the building begin!

For ages 8-12.

Campers must wear sneakers each day.

Robots! Path to Power

Explore the discoveries and inventions that have made robots possible. From learning how robots light up to getting them moving with gears. After learning the fundamentals, we will experiment with different sources of energy and even get to take a hand-powered generator home. We will see how these energy sources affect the environment and how they compare with sustainable energy while thinking about future energy sources!

NASA STEM Explorers

Developed in partnership with NASA, our campers will think and act like NASA innovators during this hands-on program inspired by the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Research Challenge (NASA OPSPARC). Use creative and collaborative skills to design a mission patch, train like an astronaut, build a Mars rover and solve real-world engineering problems. How might you use space suit cooling tubes be used to solve a problem here on Earth?

For ages 8-12.

Campers must wear sneakers each day.

Your child will work as the cast and crew in this innovative camp designed to introduce campers to the process of working on Film & TV. Campers are taught the basic levels of acting, directing, voice-over, operating the camera, and working on green screen. Script writing, storyboarding and improvisation will also be introduced. Each day is different as they create fun projects; commercials, film scenes, music videos and public service announcements.

After camp, all footage is sent to a professional editor that will be uploaded to a private YouTube channel. It may take up to 3 months of editing before the download link is sent out to participants.

For ages 8-15.

Underground Explorers - Dinosaurs to Ancient Civilizations!

Learn about archaeology and the techniques scientists use to excavate long lost cities. Discover ancient civilizations and the tools and artifacts they used in everyday life. Study bone fragments, pottery shards, amber deposits, and fossils to understand what they can tell us about history. Make incredible projects to take home, like an amber time capsule and antique coins from around the world!

Jr. Physicians Academy

Explore all of the cells, organs, muscles, and bones that make up YOU! Put yourself together from the inside out, while learning about all the systems that make your body tick! Get microscopic while making a model cell and inflatable lungs, and then get a little sticky while making Mad Mucus and a mashed potato brain!

For ages 8-12.

Campers must wear sneakers each day.

Super Slimey Smoky Science

Dive into a variety of scientific fields as you help solve a mystery, stretch silly putty and slime, copper-plate nickels, tinker with circuits, and investigate optical illusions. Become captivated by lasers, dry ice, and hair-raising experiments! You will love what happens when you mix science and fun!

Chemical Curiosities

Become a creative chemist through the investigation of the periodic table and the atoms that make up everything around us! Learn about chemical reactions as you grow crystals. We will experiment oxidizing metals with different chemicals to see how rusty they get, design chromatography bandanas to take home, and even make our very own ice cream!

For ages 8-12.

Campers must wear sneakers each day.

This camp is perfect for the aspiring young actors in your household. Campers will be taught real auditioning skills by working with scripts for commercials and film readings. Your child will work on how to personalize characters and follow direction, block for camera and read with their co-stars.

Voice over will also be introduced. Improvisation and ad-libbing (off the script) will be taught as a basis of making acting choices and trusting their instincts. Included in this camp is a take-home tutorial showing you ways to find legitimate acting jobs as well as a list of local talent agencies.

After camp, all footage is sent to a professional editor that will be uploaded to a private YouTube channel. It may take up to 3 months of editing before the download link is sent out to participants.

For ages 8-15.