Of course – please select the camp guide for your province:

–  Camp STEAM Canada Guide 2025, Ontario
–  Camp STEAM Canada Guide 2025, Alberta
–  Camp STEAM Canada Guide 2025, British Columbia

We try very hard to accommodate special needs children where we can. There is no strict policy regarding special needs children as several factors depend on our ability to provide an environment suitable to them. Suitability and capabilities vary from site to site. Therefore, if you have a special needs child and they wish to come to Camp STEAM, please contact us and we will review each case independently. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer 1:1 care for special needs campers.

Unfortunately, we do not offer half day enrollment or part time enrollment. While it is your choice to only send your child for half a day or a few times a week, there is no price discount. The full enrollment fee will apply.

During a camp week, we hold on to items left behind for campers to pick up the next day. All unclaimed items are donated to a local charity at the end of every camp week. Please label everything to assist counsellors in returning items to your child. Please also check your child’s belongings at the end of each camp day and notify the counsellors at your camp during drop off the next day, if any item is missing.  

Typically, we have 1 counsellor for every 7 children, though some variations apply. If volunteer CIT’s (Counsellors-In-Training) apply they are most welcome as well. Each camp location has a Camp Coordinator, a Program Coordinator and regular counsellors.

The majority of our counsellors are university and college students looking for summer employment (and a few secondary school students are hired each year, as well). We also employ teachers who want to do something in the summer, and graduates of teacher colleges. A recent Vulnerable Sector Police Check is a mandatory requirement for all counsellors. There will be at least one counsellor present at each camp location with their First Aid certification at all times.

Camp STEAM has locations all over Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia for summer camp 2025! You can see all our locations for summer camp 2025 here.

Yes! We make sure that there are a lot of activities and options to ensure the campers are always busy learning and having fun! Many of our activities have extensions available if a camper needs a bit more of a challenge as well.

Yes! We recognize guardian work days sometimes extend beyond our 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. camp day, and so we offer extended care. Early drop off starts at 7:30 a.m. and late pick up is offered until 5:30 p.m.

You can add this extended before care and/or extended after care to your cart at checkout when you register for camp, or purchase it later if you prefer.  Before care is $40 for 5-day camp weeks ($32 for 4 day weeks), and after camp care is also $40 for 5-day camp weeks ($32 for 4 day weeks).  Please note, only entire weeks (not individual days) can be purchased.

The first day of camp is an exciting and busy day. Some children will be experiencing nervousness about what to expect at camp, who they’re going to meet, and will they like it!? We get it!

On the first day, we encourage you to arrive a bit early (we suggest between 8:30 am and 9:00 am) on the first day only. This will allow parents and children time to acquaint themselves with the drop off/pick up location and procedures. This is a great time to meet one of the camp leaders and counsellors, ask questions you may have and request special groupings with friends/siblings/cousins, etc…

For anyone who has booked Before Care, early drop off is 7:30am – 9:00am. If you are running behind and will arrive after 9:00am to the campsite, please call our Support team (in Ontario: 226-214-2050, in BC: 236-317-4208, in Alberta: 587-855-7300; and press 1 for Parents/Guardians) and our team will notify the camp. Most facilities will have their doors locked after programming begins at 9:00am, this is for security reasons. Alternatively, if you need to pick up your child(ren) from camp prior to the end of programming at 4:00pm, we also ask that you call our Support team or notify camp leadership when you drop off your child(ren) at the start of the day.

Programming concludes at 4:00pm and the pick-up process begins.

After Care service is provided from 4:00pm – 5:30pm and is available for purchase through the camp registration process, or by calling our Support team to have it added to your account.

Please find a sample schedule below of what a day in the life of a camper looks like at Camp STEAM Canada. Many hands-on activities are designed to be conducted outdoors in green spaces surrounding facilities. Please note, staff will often take campers to local parks for outdoor fun and games. Staff follow strict safety protocols when taking campers off site.

• 07:30am – 09:00am: Before Care (STEAM Games)
• 08:55am – 09:00am: Camper Drop Off
• 09:00am – 10:15am: STEAM in the Environment / Robotics Tutorial
• 10:15am – 10:30am: Snack
• 10:30am – 11:45am: Tinkercad / Lego Coding
• 11:45am – 12:30pm: Lunch + STEAM Games
• 12:30pm – 01:45pm: 3D Printing and Coding
• 01:45pm – 02:00pm: Snack
• 02:00pm – 03:15pm: Hands-On Activity
• 03:15pm – 03:30pm: Clean Up
• 03:30pm – 04:00pm: Lego / Minecraft Build Challenge
• 04:00pm – 04:15pm: Camper Pick Up
• 04:00pm – 05:30pm: After Care (STEAM Games)

No, campers will not need to (and we request that they do not) bring any devices to camp. We are very pleased to provide a laptop for all campers at our Camp STEAM locations. This ensures all campers have equal access for all camp activities.  

To ensure their safety, all campers must be signed in at the time of drop off and signed out at the time of pick up, by their guardian. Guardians must indicate the names of the authorized persons for pickup on their online registration form and everyone must show identification in order to sign out a child. You will be required to show physical government issued photo identification every day, even if we know you. No child will be permitted to leave camp without being signed out by an authorized adult. The same safety rules apply to all. Should a parent wish to add an authorized person(s) to the approved pick up and drop off list for their child, they may login to their account or call our team:

In Ontario: 226-214-2050

In BC: 236-317-4208

In Alberta: 587-855-7300

We post this information on the location pages as soon as we receive it from our partner sites. In the case where Camp STEAM is located at a university or a college this information can take a while to be forwarded to us as they have internal procedures they must follow to make drop off and pick up as seamless as possible for parents. An email is sent prior to the start of each Camp STEAM week to all enrolled parents with this information.

As much as possible, we will be grouping the campers by grade. However, this depends on the camp location and the enrolment of any given week. As a not for profit organization, we do not have the means to employ extra staff to break down into smaller groups if we cannot group easily by age or grade. We cannot guarantee the ages of the campers prior to the camp week, nor can we guarantee how they will be grouped.

Yes! There is at least one staff member at every site that has their First Aid and CPR certification.

In general, Camp STEAM is nut aware, in that we ask parents to provide nut free food for their children, but there may be some nut food products present at the camp facilities, as we rent our camp facilities and do not have control over what may be in the building. Please review our Camp Guide for your province for full details:

–  Camp STEAM Canada Guide 2025, Ontario
–  Camp STEAM Canada Guide 2025, Alberta
–  Camp STEAM Canada Guide 2025, British Columbia

Participants may switch their camp week(s), if notice is provided to Head Office by contacting our Support team. This must be done a minimum of 14 days in advance of the start date of the original purchased camp session and is contingent on available spots for the requested week(s). There is no guarantee that sessions will be available for your requested date(s) and location(s). To contact our Support team, please email your request to support@campsteam.ca or call us at the number for your province (Ontario: 226-214-2050, BC: 236-317-4208, Alberta: 587-855-7300) to speak with one of our Support team members.

No. We suggest that parents evaluate their situation closely prior to enrolling their child and that should a situation occur where the child indicates they are not “having fun” or “didn’t learn anything”, strongly encourage them to try their best the next day. Children often focus on one thing during the day they did not like but in actuality they had 10 other positive things happen. Another suggestion would be to discuss the situation with the Camp Coordinator on site as there is often more to the story.

There is a 2.4% Credit Card Surcharge added to all transactions to cover the fee that payment processors charge. This is a non-refundable fee.

Please note, credit card charges may appear on your statement as Bambora Internet PSP, the company that provides payment gateway services to Camp STEAM.

NOTE: Bambora/Worldline is one of the most widely used payment gateways on the Internet. If you have found this page by searching online for a charge you found on your statement, but you have not signed up for camp, the charge you are seeing is most likely not from Camp STEAM.