East Bay Summer Camp Guide (2020)

Each day at Sarah's Science Camp, kids make and take home a fun science project while exploring important science topics ranging from physics to chemistry and beyond. Camp also includes swimming, hiking, music, art, and active games. For children 4 and up. CIT program begins at age 11.

Learn to code, design video games, mod Minecraft, create with Roblox, engineer robots, and work with AI at iD Tech. Held at UC Berkeley, St. Mary’s, Carondelet High, and 150+ locations. Kids will make friends as they master coding skills, and will join a community of 450,000 alumni.

Monkey Business Camp offers art, cooking, storytelling, nature exploration, treasure hunts, carnival games, singing, and organic cooking! Expect an exciting week outdoors in Tilden Park with one day of swimming. Pre-K program for 3-4 year olds at indoor location near Tilden.

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Registration opens 2/10/20. Campers, age 3-12, will receive gymnastics instruction from the highly-skilled coaches through all the Olympic events: uneven bars, parallel bars, balance beam, floor & vault. Afternoons are spent fine tuning skills, participating in activity stations, and enjoying in ample free time.

Galileo ignites the innovator in every kid. Supported by the best staff in the business, campers learn new ways of thinking, creating, and having fun while tackling hands-on projects in art, science, engineering, and design.

Build your child's confidence this summer! Avid4 Adventure teaches kids of all levels to climb, paddle, bike, hike and thrive in the outdoors. Locations in Oakland, Orinda, Burlingame, Mill Valley, and Palo Alto. Shuttles available to Oakland and Mill Valley locations. Register now—spots are filling fast!

Calling all artists and scientists! Campers make and learn through hands-on chemistry experiments, art projects, and engineering to experience the joy of STEAM. Daily visits to the Alice Waters' Edible School Yard will enrich our understanding that science is everywhere.

Bliss Belly Kitchen campers make and eat a fun culinary creation while exploring wellness and climate-conscious topics ranging from local seasonal produce to making chocolate from scratch. Camp includes daily yoga, meditation, active games, art, and singing. For ages 5+.

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Techsplosion summer camps find the perfect balance between fun and learning. Beginning with things kids love, like Minecraft and YouTube, Techsplosion uses them as fuel for learning STEM concepts like coding and cinematography!

Future-forward programming and design camp lets campers build skills in Holographic AR coding, digital art, game design, 3D modeling, and AI. Students aged 5-18 with all level of computer skills enjoy small classes. Locations in Berkeley, Fremont, and San Ramon.

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Join a fun-filled summer of science, friendship and nature exploration. Campers explore bay and ocean shorelines, hike through forests, kayak on the bay, create nature art, investigate creek life, swim at Lake Anza, enjoy a twilight hike/campfire, and much more.

UC Berkeley's ATDP offers challenging summer courses for highly motivated young scholars in grades K-11. Examples include: Rainforests, Math Magic, and Programming in Java. Elementary division is 3 weeks in Point Richmond; Secondary is 4-6 weeks at Cal. APPLICATIONS REQUIRED.

EBI summer fun campers, Pre-K to 4th grade, tackle enriching activities in Spanish, STEAM, sports, and the arts led by outstanding faculty and industry partners. Camp schedule was designed for busy families with 7 weekly camps and extended care options.

Campers ages 9-13 travel by foot, bus, and BART to explore parks and enjoy active outings (kayaking, trampolining, rock-climbing, and getting food). Staff engages boys to grow in curiosity, competency and compassion. A program of Monkey Business Camp. THREE WEEKS ONLY.

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Campers ages 9-13 travel by foot, bus, BART, and ferries to get to exciting destinations. Girls on the Go offers spontaneous and planned adventure and peer bonding. Empowering girls to be bold and compassionate is a goal of this award-winning program, part of Monkey Business Camp.

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Prospect Sierra's new, innovative summer offerings -- Let’s Go Camping! Circuitry and Robots. Cryptozoology -- help children learn deeply, have fun, and build friendships. Camp is led by the experienced Prospect Sierra teachers who developed this dynamic curriculum.

Voted Bay Area Parent's Best Technology Camp 2019, TechKnowHow offers week-long LEGO® Building, Robotics and Coding camps. In their 26th year of successfully educating and serving Bay Area students. Ages 5-16.

Little Theater Company gives kids a chance to shine with full theater productions on stage or behind the scenes. Kids can act or learn about set and costume design or lighting and sound. One-week or two-week camps. Final performances showcase all the work.

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Since 2003, PlanetBravo’s Techno-tainment camp has inspired tens of thousands of tech-hungry students in Grades 2-9 to develop their creative and curious minds through project-based learning, at a fraction of the cost of other technology camps.

Many camps offered: Theater Arts Camp, Adventures in Writing, TechKnowHow LEGO Engineering, Spanish Immersion, and Creators & Explorers (campers rotate through woodshop, coding, cooking, gardening, arts & crafts, and sports & games). Small groups means lots of individual attention.

KidzToPros STEM, Arts & Sports Summer Camps provide the perfect opportunity to gain valuable skills that last a lifetime. From coding and robotics to web design, digital arts, and basketball, KidzToPros will help ignite your child’s creativity and passion.

Go Girls! Camp (GGC) is for 1st - 4th graders developing and performing their own prosocial play. Go Girls! Productions (GGP) is for 5th - 7th graders creating their own short films. Camp is for girls & gender non-conforming kids.

At Camp Bladium summer camp, campers experience a variety of games and activities like rock climbing, inflatables, basketball, dodgeball, kickball, arts and crafts, NERF, laser tag, LEGO, and inflatable water slides for an adventure kids are sure to love. Ages 5-14.

Dancers, age 7 and up, can grow as dancers and artists at Oakland Ballet Company’s summer dance intensive. Daily classes in ballet, pointe, conditioning, repertoire and choreography are taught by OBC’s professional dancers and guest faculty.

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.

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Multi-Award Winning, High energy, super fun introduction to the world of pop music, arts, and dance. All abilities welcomed. Music Art Dance Fun & Friends for ages 8-13.

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Camp Gan Israel ("Gan Izzy") provides children from diverse Jewish backgrounds with joy and love for the outdoors with field trips, fishing, swimming, gardening, arts and crafts, sports, science, challah baking, and overnights. Shuttle available from N. Berkeley BART.

Join BBT’s exceptional faculty for a Summer Ballet Camp experience designed to share the joy of ballet with young dancers in a positive, focused environment. Camp for ages 2 to 18. Dancers learn ballet technique, dance history, hip hop, and jazz.

Firecracker is for curious and challenge-loving kids. Small class sizes and excellent instructors develop kids' love for math and boosts their confidence. Topics include number theory, combinatorics, probability, and logic. Daily math games, magic tricks, paradoxes. Full- and half-day options.

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Located at El Cerrito High School, Camp Olympia is a joy-based day camp filled with sports and games with nonstop, unplugged fun in a rich camp community rooted in closeness and a sense of belonging. Campers ages 5 to 12.

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Spend summer break with the Claremont Kids' Club. Games, hiking, swimming, cooking, arts & crafts, music and more. Open to both members and non-members.

For 60 years, Cal Youth Camps have offered science, sports, swimming, soccer, skateboarding, rock climbing, gymnastics, martial arts, STEM, sailing, and more for ages 4-17. Drop-ins, 1- and 2-week sessions available on the UC Berkeley campus. Payment plans and scholarships available.

Trackers award-winning summer camps offer authentic wilderness skills woven into real adventures. Learn fishing, farming, or homesteading; practice stealth, archery, and woodcarving; or join an epic story of secret agents, ninjas, or wizards. Grades PreK-12. After camp available.

Adventure Day Camp is a traditional day camp for children ages 3-14. Children gain confidence arts, sports, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, tennis, horseback riding, archery, climbing, drama, music, hiking, biking, overnight campout, and more.

At Camp EDMO®, Pre-K-8th grade campers lose themselves in STEAM-infused activities. They’re inspired to accept themselves and others, push their boundaries with confidence, and most importantly, act with real kindness and compassion. Kids grow on lots of levels.

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Come sing, dance, and play at Berkeley Playhouse’s award-winning summer program. Choose from camp themes inspired by popular titles, plus skill-building classes. Before and after care available.

Crowden offers fun and inspiring music camps for ages five and up at all levels of musical experience. Try Instrument Discovery Camp, Summer Strings, Piano Partners, or Young Musicians Chamber Academy. Music camps include games and outdoor play.

Le Camp d’Été is a French immersion summer camp at Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley in West Berkeley. Children enjoy activities with French native counselors and participate in sports, music, movement, science, art, and take part in a weekly field trip.

Soccer Shots Camps include soccer games as well as a variety of other age-appropriate activities such as team building exercises, crafts and literature. 2020 Olympic-themed Summer Camp to develop soccer skills, character, and creativity while having fun and being active.

Campers play, plant, sing, work, and thrive on this organic urban farm in Berkeley. Through group-building challenges, learn about the natural world and explore community, teamwork, and the interconnectedness of all things. Sprouts: ages 3-5. Main Camp: 1st – 5th graders.

Award-winning week-long camp allows children to experience the joy of performance and play through Improv, story building, dance and song. Teen camp is 3-weeks long and culminates in a full length production.

Gaia Girls Passages provides an intergenerational community that fosters a connection to the natural world, builds confidence, voice, leadership, and supports female-identified youth through the changes from childhood to young adulthood. Summer camp available for grades 2-5. ONE WEEK ONLY

Watch your kids blossom as they immerse themselves in music, make friends, grow their confidence, and express their creativity. Campers dive into music, art, and on-stage play. Each week, campers collaborate, leveraging their individual strengths to develop a final performance.

Promising a solid week of coding fun, kids, age 8+, code throughout the week and then demo their creations. Programming languages/topics include: Scratch/Snap!, Python, HTML/CSS, Raspberry Pi, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile App Development. Camps include daily hour of outdoor activities.

One-stop camp for non-stop fun. LEGO, Ninja Warrior, parkour, gymnastics, sports, science, art, scavenger hunts, and two-week sports and theater camp that ends with a mini-performance by the campers.

Discover the outdoors at Lafayette Reservoir. Campers, ages 4 -16, enjoy the wonders of swimming, fishing, hiking, boating, horseback riding, sports, crafts, and lots more. Free extended care and transportation to Oakland, Berkeley, Piedmont, East Bay Neighborhoods.

Calling all young engineers, astronauts, explorers, makers, and problem solvers. Young explorers, ages 6-11, will investigate the Earth, outer space, and beyond through hands-on science, art, and play. Campers examine the universe, conduct experiments, and adventure outdoors.

Daruma-no-Gakko is a four-week, co-op summer program designed for children K-6 to learn about Japanese-American heritage. The goal is to develop positive self-image and identity through the study of history, language, music, art, and cooking.

JCAS campers are encouraged to get creative and delve into their imaginations. Weekly themes include printmaking, comics, robots, carpentry, and ceramics. Camps are small, supportive environments facilitated by practicing artists and craftspeople right on Lake Merritt.

Summer Art Camp at the Richmond Art Center gives young artists, ages 5-16, an exciting immersion in visual art and to engage in the art making process. Daily projects include drawing, painting, printmaking, textile arts and sculpture.

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Cooking Round the World camp immerses a child in a cooking and cultural exploration with recipes, folktales, international games, and learn to think critically about the foods we just cooked.

Dancing Paintbrush Studio offers camps at University Village for kids age 5 to 17. Expect a week of fun and creativity. Voted #1 Best of the Bay Arts Camp by Parents Press!

Sees the Day is committed to instilling in children a respect and appreciation for each other and the natural world. Activities include: Ecological educators and performers, storytelling, beading, fairy houses, gratitude circles, cooperative games, imaginative play, and classic summertime fun!

Always Learning and Growing Outdoor Nature camp gives kids the chance to be kids and explore the outdoors. Small group hiking adventures plus kids choice of activities including nature journals, games, art, wildlife identification and fairy house making.

Coach Ben and his staff are offering a variety of baseball camps for fun and skill building. Players are rewarded for giving positive reinforcement to each other in both competitive and non-competitive games and drills. A team atmosphere is maintained at all times.

Urban Adventure Camps is unique field trip day camp for campers age 8-15. Each day groups visit the Bay Area’s best museums, parks, galleries, science centers, activities, and attractions. Public transportation is used to explore and teach campers local navigation.

Writopia Lab is dedicated to fostering joy, literacy, and critical thinking through creative writing. Age-based workshops focus on essay or creative writing. Full-day camps have electives such as songwriting and rap, graphic novel, and improv.

Su Yun's provides fun and engaging hands-on summer camps that blend STEM topics, Mandarin language, and outdoor activities. Themes include LEGO, food science, engineering, cooking, makerspace, arts & crafts, etc. No prior language experience required.

Sticky Art Lab has an array of art-based maker camps with different themes and lead artists. With a focus on reuse, each day balances structured teaching and creative free-build. Themes include clay, tech arts, ooey gooey, sewing, wood shop, and more.

Liv & Chiu Art Studio camps offer variety of art camps such as cartooning, graphic novel, painting, animation, character design and animal drawing. Children work alongside of professional artists and explore various art mediums.

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One Generation Camp is an outdoor music and dance camp in Tilden park featuring West African hand drumming and dance, Brazilian Capoeira, Storytelling, Yoga and other forms of movement. One Generation focuses on teaching kindness through the arts and building community.

The Crucible has unique camps for exploring industrial art and getting hands-on in blacksmithing, welding, woodworking, glass blowing, jewelry, and more. Students apply what they’ve learned – creative problem solving, scientific principles, and teamwork – at school and beyond. Ages 8 to 18.

At Steve & Kate’s, kids try, fail, and learn on their own - because when you trust kids, they trust themselves. Offering a media lab, sewing salon, bakery, karaoke, outdoor recreation, lunch & snacks, and so much more!

Ever wanted to try crew? Established in 1974, the Oakland Strokes Rowing Club teaches basic technique, boat handling, and fitness in a fun environment. No previous rowing experience necessary. Open to anyone entering 6th - 12th.

Middle and high school students can learn Artificial intelligence (AI) in 3 weeks with zero prior coding experience: campers make real AI products people can use, tour top tech companies, and talk with top AI practitioners. Applications due: 2/15.

East Bay Waldorf School camp gives your child the freedom to tap into their creative spirit and cultivate a deeper love of learning. Campers play games; sing and play music; cook and bake; explore the arts; and lots more. No experience with Waldorf needed.

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Doodle is a project-based, hands-on maker camp that emphasizes creativity with plenty of outdoor time. There is something to inspire every child. Doodle Spark Program for 1st - 5th graders and Primo Program for Kindergarten and under.

At JCC camp, children get messy, act silly, sing, dance, and explore with a focus on building friendships and expanding interests. Camp celebrates community-based Jewish values, and welcomes campers of all backgrounds.

Kinetic Arts Center's circus camps build strength and style. Aspiring circus performers walk on stilts and build confidence in a giant obstacle courses. New aerialists learn aerial hoop, trapeze, and tissue while experienced aerialists are challenged to learn advanced tricks.

Oakland ZooCamp takes great pride in creating age-appropriate programs for campers in Pre-K through High School. Expect an exciting week of outdoor nature discovery, animal adventures, zoo tours, special behind the scenes and animal close-ups.

Seele Stars offers performing arts summer camps taught by a credentialed/master’s degree teacher. Join in to learn, sing, dance, and act each week. The end of this fun experience results in a themed showcase performance highlighting student learning.

Learn to be a real Ninja Warrior. Experienced trainers teach students how to do iconic obstacles like the Warped Wall and Quad Steps. They’ll learn new parkour skills each day, then on Friday put it all together with course runs/competitions.

East Bay Kidz Math Camp is a fun 3-week investigation into mathematics with a hands-on approach to learning. Focuses on key math building blocks and developing math confidence, along with engaging game-based indoor and outdoor activities.

Dream it, build it, wreck it, and repeat in LEGO-inspired engineering Summer camps. Engineer interesting projects, think critically, and work collaboratively while learning STEM concepts. Camps include over 20,000 LEGO pieces including Star Wars, Minecraft, and Robotics.

Cara Goldstein, an experienced art educator, facilitates art camps for ages 7 to 18 at all skill levels. Cartooning & Creativity workshops for ages 7-12; Portfolio and figure drawing workshops for ages 11-18 at Piedmont Park. Additional Berkeley-based cartoon camp at Liv & Chiu Studios.