CIT Programs: Berkeley & Oakland Summer Camps

Offering three 3-week sessions of unplugged time with art, group games, nature connection, and special surprises. Small, stable groups of campers with dedicated youth leaders and staff. Serving families 21 years, including in-person camps this past year.

Youth Leaders bring a caring, playful, energetic vibe, co-creating the magic and fun that makes each camp unforgettable for the campers, other youth leaders and staff, learning skills along the way.

Firecracker Math In-person Day Camps are for curious and challenge-loving kids ages 6 - 16. Camps combines half-day math instruction followed by optional fun activities in the afternoon. Hybrid live-online Summer Math Boost Program also available.

Firecracker Math Summer Camp is looking for energetic and enthusiastic counselors to lead campers through their daily programs. Create a Fun Camp! Support teachers and work with other team members.

St. Paul's Summer Camp is a traditional day camp running three 3-week cohorts. Experienced, enthusiastic teachers & counselors love working with children. Specialized themes include art, math, basketball, cycling. Offering optional lunches and extended care.

C.I.T.s (rising seventh - ninth graders) will develop and practice skills in leadership, critical thinking, communication, conflict resolution, and organization by working directly with teachers.

One Generation Camp is an outdoor music and dance camp in Tilden Park featuring West African hand drumming and dance, Brazilian Capoeira, Cuban dance, body percussion, and exploration in nature. One Generation focuses on teaching kindness, community, and culture through the arts.

The ideal CIT has a desire to learn, to play, and to be a great example to our younger children. CIT program is extremely limited so apply early! Please contact us directly about interest.

CAMP 510 is a values-driven summer day-camp with the mission to cultivate confident and creative young makers. CAMPers learn cooking, welding, sewing, art, music, and more in the spirit D-I-T (do it together); guided through unique projects by professional artists and makers. Ages 6-14.

Counselors and CITs are the bridge between campers and teaching artists and make camp a terrific experience, all while developing skills and work experience and discovering new interests.

Go Girls! is for girls and gender-expansive youth to make art & media, to perform theater & music - all while practicing the Go Girls! Culture Code, our highly effective social-emotional skills framework designed to help girls become their boldest, bravest selves.

Go Girls! Changemakers learn to EDUCATE, INSPIRE, & ACTIVATE girls to take center stage, as they learn advocacy and allyship for others in their family and community.

Mr. D's Music Club multi-award-winning, in-person summer camps offer hi-energy, super fun, "hip and cool" weekly day camps for the 2021 season. Singing, Dancing, Acting & Art. Picnics in the park, Pizza day, games, and more. For kids of all abilities. Ages 8-12. 75% outdoors.

Kids must have attended 2 or more Mr. D's summer programs. Must be high school Freshman or above.

Outdoors at Oakland Hebrew Day School, June 21-July 16, Gan Izzy gives children from diverse Jewish backgrounds pride in their heritage and love for the outdoors with field trips, fishing, swimming, gardening, crafts, sports, science, challah baking, and overnights. Multiple East Bay bus pickups available.

The Counselor-In-Training program gives campers the opportunity to enjoy the fun of camp while honing their leadership skills.

Discovery Camp at Sausalito's Bay Area Discovery Museum (BADM) is summer as it should be. Campers are invited back this summer to have a blast with robust programming that provides the perfect blend of BADM's exhibits and the surrounding National Park, Fort Baker.

The perfect opportunity for BADM's oldest campers, as a Junior Counselor, 5th - 9th-grade children will step into the role of leader as they support and assist their lead teacher.

Your child can become a mini-chef, have a blast cooking & discovering, and be safe all at the same time! Cooking Round the World offers weekly camp fun in Oakland, Lafayette, San Leandro, Albany, and other cities through Parks & Recreations depts: Walnut Creek, Concord, Danville, El Cerrito.

Open to high school juniors & seniors who have worked with kids, can follow recipes, & act responsibly. Work permit needed. Send contact info: ProgramDir@cookingroundtheworld.com

Urban Adamah campers play, plant, sing, work, and get to know life on an urban farm with dirty hands and bellies full of fresh organic produce. Kids explore community, teamwork, and interconnectedness while integrating Jewish traditions. Sprouts: ages 3-5 | Roots: grades 1-5.

CIT’s are invited to join as part of a 3-week long cohort with our summer camp. CIT’s will spend their day mentoring and playing with campers in their kvutzah (small group).

Cal Youth Camps offers a variety of in-person camps and sport/outdoor activities, including swimming, soccer, skateboarding, rock climbing, gymnastics, martial arts, STEAM, sailing, and more for kids ages 4-17. 1- and 2-week sessions available on the UC Berkeley campus. No price increases for 2021 and payment plans available.

There are several different ways for tweens and teens to practice their different leadership skills beginning with students entering ninth grade.

Under the Redwoods, you'll find a place of peace and acceptance, where they value the abilities and interests of each camper. All are welcome. This community service program emphasizes creativity, values, and concern for the environment and others, since 1993.

TLC will develop the Camp Elmwood curriculum (games, learning opportunities, and activities) around the camp theme, “Better Together.”