The problem I found was my son grew bored of camps designed for 6-12 year olds at much younger than 12. Science camps sounded fun on paper, but in reality they tended to do the same science "kit" experiments over and over. It can help to look for camps designed for gifted kids if you have any in your area or ones that are also have programs for older kids.
Our area doesn' have camps for GT kids at this age. I know what you mean about the science camps, I think that that will be what we get. But these are short camps so at least there will be some sort of novelty effect for a few days. :-)
