PARI's Summer STEM and Space Exploration Camps
- Rosman, NC
- Camp Type: Overnight
- Age of Campers: 11 - 17
- Gender of Campers: Coed
- Year Established: 1998
Unleash your curiosity of the unknown when you retreat to a dark sky oasis where the stars are innumerable and beckon overhead. Let the magnificence of space overwhelm you as you discover the mysteries that still confound scientists, it just might drive you to become tomorrow's astronauts, physicists, and engineers. Come learn how different telescopes work and use them and real data to explore space just like professional scientists do. PARI is a unique site, rich in space science history, and is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where an abundance of adventures awaits. From Space and Science to tubing, waterfall swimming and roller skating, there are fun, refreshing activities for everyone.
Space is a frontier that sparks imagination and curiosity to discover and understand. It invokes the same spirit that drove ancient peoples to sail into the unknown and pioneers to set out across continents. To reach into space requires tenacity and grit, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds who've studied, experimented, and pushed humanity's abilities forward again and again.
The summer of 2025 will begin PARI's 24th summer camp season. It brings camp programs where campers explore the ways that researchers delve the depths of our universe to make new discoveries, and the challenges that humans face when leaving the Earth to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
It is also the third summer of our new partnership with Clemson University. This collaboration expands our ability to inspire with new topics and resources and will reach even more campers who will become the next generation of scientists and explorers.
Camp Focus
Academic and Pre-College Camps
All Activities
- Other Arts
- Hiking
- General Academics
- Other Academics
- Programming and Coding
- Science
- Space
- STEM
- Technology
- Team Building
PARI 2025 Summer Camps
Above and Beyond
RISING STARS GATHER HERE:
July 7, 2025 – July 18, 2025
$3,910
$50 registration fee
Above and Beyond is PARI’s signature camping experience designed to immerse high school students in the world of space science and research while building confidence and critical thinking skills.
Originally developed in partnership with Duke University and refined for nearly two decades, this space camp explores the universe through astronomy, physics, and astrobiology, while also providing time for adventure and fun.
The process followed by scientists and researchers who’ve made space science their career is modeled to show how new discoveries are made about the universe. Campers are provided the tools and guided through the process by professionals who have made space their life’s work.
This year’s camp will focus on the unique challenges of human space exploration, near and far. From the impact of stars on the planets in their systems, to the composition of atmospheres and regolith, we’ll present the tools to answer a myriad of questions that could one day help humanity spread beyond Earth.
How do we find water or breathable atmosphere, or can they be made? How do we measure radiation from a star or classify exoplanets? Can a cave or lava tube on Mars provide adequate shelter for humans? What resources can be harvested from asteroids? Maybe you’ll help answer a question like these.
3D Planets Camp
Another planet in your hands:
July 20, 2025 – July 25, 2025
$1,650.00
$50 registration fee
Come explore other worlds with us and learn to 3D model and print volcanos, craters, rifts, and more from the Moon, Mars, and beyond!
When PARI got its first 3D printer over a decade ago, our educators set out to find a way to combine it with space science. With practice, experimentation, and some help from our friends, 3D Planets began a few years later in 2015.
3D printers are continue to grow in use and find new uses in science and technology, and space exploration, and we’re excited to offer our next round of 3D Planets programs and camps.
3D Planets is a camp experience designed to immerse students in Planetary Geography, 3D Modeling and Printing, Three Dimensional Spatial Reasoning, and Communication.
