Here is a great one. Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. www.mst.edu
Camp Link - http://dce.mst.edu/noncredit/precollege/index.html
My son went there last year it was AWESOME. Its real competitive to get into so check it out early!!!! He went for their Explosives Camp. My son literally got to “blow $#!^ up” for a whole week. He got to go into real mines, blow up the side of a mountain, make a huge waterspout, explode real dynamite, and put on a real fireworks display. They even brought in Bomb Robots and let the students contol them! In the camp and my son was recorded for a new Discovery Channel series coming out this spring called “Extreme Explosives”. Look for it soon!!!
The professor was incredible. They have other camps - one even made just for girls interested in the science fields. The campus was small, safe, and clean! I would feel safe leaving my daughter there. We stayed in Rolla for the week and loved it!
Here is a link to some of the You-tube videos of the things they blew up at camp!
Check out this Camp video students made - Really Good! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGJPWAynDQ
Waterspout - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m8zV7Wiclc
I Beam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTQ_ebkbXU
Watermelon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NYlSe49g-Q
Surface Mining - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av7lIPyisgc
WOW, this is cool, I want to go myself! Thanks for the great info and to opening our eyes on all the cool camps out there!
Back in 1970 when I attended "UMR Tech", the male/female ratio was about 5000/100. Daughters were "safe" simply because of the lopsided competition! The annual St Patrick's celebration was a month long drunken bash.
I DID learn a few things there about making very loud explosions using very common ingredients...
Very nice area to revisit as an adult. For a single young male almost 40 years ago, it was not the typical college scene.