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Digital Media Academy
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The Best STEM Summer Camps for Kids & Teens. Launched by tech educators at Stanford University, Digital Media Academy camps are the best place for students to get their start as designers, developers, programmers, engineers, animators, musicians, filmmakers, and creators. Learn why students, parents, and teachers love the unique, project-based, hands-on courses developed by industry experts and educators. Get your start in the career of your dreams and make new friends this summer. Courses are available now! Open to students 7-17 of all skill levels. Whether you are beginning to learn or ready to take the next giant leap, we have courses for you.
iD Tech
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
iD Tech is the world leader in summer STEM education, with over 400,000 alumni since 1999. Programs for ages 7-19 are held at 150 campuses, including UCLA, Caltech, LMU, and Stanford. Students build in-demand skills in coding, game development, robotics, and design. In addition to the flagship program, iD Tech Camps for ages 7-17, iD Tech also offers all-girls camps, teen-only Academies, an advanced capstone program, and year-round Online Private Lessons.
Multi-Activity
Valley Trails Summer Camp
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Valley Trails Summer Camp provides campers entering grades K-10 with an opportunity to gain new skills, create friendships, memories and more in our traditional camp setting. Campers will have the opportunity to participate in everything from archery and rock climbing, to arts & crafts, cooking, and more. Our campers are under the guidance and watchful eye of our amazing leaders, role-models, and superheroes while they experience the summer of their life. Valley Trails Summer Camp offers extended hours, express transportation and low leader to camper ratios.
Camp Los Encinos
Additional Categories: Art, Outdoor Activity
Camp Los Encinos is a fun and enriching day camp in Encino on the campus of CAIS-accredited Los Encinos School. Spring Camp runs one week (March 25-29), Summer Camp runs seven weeks (June 17-August 2), daily or weekly. Kids are welcome from any school to build their days around a variety of cool activities, such as sports, dance, arts & crafts, photography, 3-D printing, drone-flying, cooking, iMovie-making, comic book creation, and reading/math enrichment, just to name a few. Water slides and awesome field trips round out each week during the summer, making Camp Los Encinos a summer sensation! With FREE extended care (drop off 8:00am, pick up 4:00pm), and flexible scheduling, Camp Los Encinos is amazing, affordable, and convenient. Register online today!
Summer at Viewpoint
Additional Categories: Tech, Performing Arts/Theater & Music
We are proud to offer a wide variety of exciting programs for Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade designed to meet your family's needs. Our goal is to provide each camper with a memorable summer filled with new adventures and lasting friendships. We offer an array of enrichment programs, for-credit high school classes, specialized sports camps, robotics, computer programming, musical theater, and fine arts. All of our programs are created and facilitated by caring, qualified, and committed educators who seek to provide a vibrant, safe, and stimulating environment for our campers and students. Our 40+ acre campus, located in Calabasas, nestled against the Santa Monica Mountains, is an idyllic location. The campus facilities are pristine with state-of-the-art classrooms, pools, gyms, theater, art labs, and athletic fields.
Camp EcoBotics
Additional Categories: Art, Tech
Camp Eco-Botics is a summer camp program for middle school students and is held on the deToledo High School campus in West Hills, CA. The programming focuses on the growing, harvesting and cooking of food in the organic garden, building and designing in the MakerSpace, and creating art in the art and design labs. Students enjoy a full day program that also includes yoga and swimming.
UCLA Lab School
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Sports & Recreation
Your child can perform in a musical, explore architecture, cook a story or grow a garden of friends. These are just some of the fun and exciting experiences our program offers. Taught by UCLA Lab School faculty, our classes are designed to actively involve children in the learning process. They provide a boost in science, math, reading, writing, social studies and art, all in the context of a nurturing, caring and fun environment. Our campus adds to the enjoyment by offering a relaxing, natural setting, with play yards and even a Redwood Forest. Sports Camp and Extended Day continue the fun with plenty of time to play, learn new skills and enjoy friends. Many of our families return year after year!
St. Paul’s Sizzling Summer
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St Paul's Sizzling Summer Camp provides a variety of engaging daily activities for children from kindergarten to 6th grade. The core camp operates every day from 9 to 4 but offers free extended care from 7 AM to 6 PM. Weekly activities include swimming, karate, music, technology, crafts, games, Bible time, and field trips. This camp is perfect for working parents and kids who like to be active in the summer in a safe, structured, and well-supervised environment. Weekly fee rates for 5 day per week or 3 day per week are very affordable. Easy access to St Paul's First Lutheran off the 170 freeway adjacent to North Hollywood Park makes it very convenient for working parents. Discounts for early registration.
The Lycee LA Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Performing Arts/Theater & Music, Sports & Recreation
From sports to cooking to computer workshops and more, our summer activities are designed with the age groups of our campers in mind. Your child is bound to have a fun-filled day with us! All children MUST be 4 years of age at start of camp. Activities from 8:30am to 4:00pm. Drop off starts at 8:00am. and free extended care until 4:45 p.m. (snack included!) The Lycée Summer Camp is open to all students. For students who do not regularly attend Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles, we require a recent, good school disciplinary report. June 17-July 26 - Choose the specific weeks that work best for you or choose all six! After all, it’s summer, so relax…
Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop Camp
Additional Categories: Sleep Away, Sports & Recreation
Welcome to Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps—Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop Camp! For more than 65 years, Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps have been providing an inclusive and fun environment where campers and staff become part of a community. We strive to build a place where everyone is equal and included, supported and cared for, connected and challenged. Our new location at CSU Channel Islands offers a wealth of programming options—top-notch sports, theatre, music, dance, swimming, arts and crafts, social, spiritual, and educational activities, all designed to create a magical environment in which campers can stretch their limits, build meaningful relationships, develop a profound connection to Judaism, and have the time of their lives.
Galileo Camps
Additional Categories: Art
SUMMER CAMPS KIDS LOVE Galileo Innovation Camps for Pre-K – 8th Graders At Galileo, we mix day camp fun with hands-on projects in fields from science and engineering to the visual and culinary arts. Supported by the best staff around, kids grow from Camp Galileo (pre-K – 5th grades) through Galileo Summer Quest (entering 5th – 8th grades), emerging as confident creators ready to turn their ideas into reality. Sign up by February 28th to save $25 per week. 80+ locations in the Bay Area, SoCal and Chicagoland. Optional extended care and healthy lunch. Learn more: www.galileo-camps.com or 800-854-3684.
Zoo Camp at the Los Angeles Zoo
Additional Categories: Outdoor Activity, Science
Get ready for a wild summer adventure! Children in pre-kindergarten (age 4) through fourth grade will have a cool time engaging in fun activities and going ape over the Zoo’s amazing animals. Each camp is led by specially trained, experienced adult staff. Extended care (morning and afternoon) is available.
Summer Art Academy (The Art Camp)
Additional Categories: Art, Science
Come Discover, Explore and Create with us at the Summer Art Academy (Art Camp)! We are more than just Art! We pride ourselves in our high level of personal service, attention to detail, and our diverse daily curriculum! Some of the amazing variety of classes that we offer are: Art, Magic, Science, Cartooning, Woodworking, Musical Theatre, Cooking, Crafting, Photography, Dance, Fencing, Ceramics, Sports, Adventure, Video Animation, Filmmaking just to name a few! We have the most devoted, quality staff and educators, that create a safe, fun, educational, hands-on experiences! Campers are able to be themselves, and thrive in a creative environment every single day! A Summer at Art Camp is one where your child will make new life-long friends, and memories that will last a lifetime.
Academic & Education
Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research Molecular Medicine Summer Camps
Additional Categories: Science
We offer winter and summer workshops for high-achieving high school students interested in pursuing a career in medicine or related fields, such as biomedical research, drug development, pharmacy or nursing. Our summer camps include Molecular Biology of Cancer, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Immunology, Bioinformatics of Cancer and Biomedical Research, while the Medical and Translational Bioinformatics workshop is held during winter break. Through engaging lectures and hands-on laboratory classes, students learn normal molecular and cellular biology, and then learn how these normal processes are distorted during the development of disease. To conclude the workshop, students use what they have learned to create an original research project on a gene of their choice. More broadly, the workshops strengthen academic skills and help to ease the transition to college.
Summer@Stratford
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Explore...Excel...Engage...Discover Summer@Stratford! Stratford School offers an innovative and enriching summer camp experience for students from Preschool through 8th Grade (2.5 –14 years old). Younger campers - Preschool – Kindergarten - learn, explore, and engage in a combination of hands-on learning projects and interactive play. For the Elementary age group, each two-week camp session is built around a project-based learning theme, where students collaborate to tackle a real-world problem by utilizing cross-disciplinary academic principles and new concepts in a fun and engaging way. At the Middle School level, individual subject-based enrichment classes are offered and tailored for each grade level. For more information go to stratfordschools.com/summer-camp.
LePort Montessori Summer Program
Additional Categories: Language, Outdoor Activity
At LePort Montessori in Lomita, children thrive in an authentic, nurturing Montessori environment, and have the option of becoming bilingual in our Spanish-immersion preschool/kindergarten classroom. We welcome families to enroll in the LePort Montessori Summer Program where children will become acquainted with an authentic Montessori classroom, complete with Montessori materials, multiple-age classrooms, and nurturing Montessori teachers. During the summer program LePort incorporates fun summer activities that include in-house presentation by some of our favorite guests who share music, friendly animal creatures, and special activities. Children also have plenty of time to enjoy the outdoors, including our wonderful fun-filled splash days. LePort Montessori Lomita is open to children starting at 12 weeks through Kindergarten. Join LePort this summer for some Montessori fun.
Ecole du Soleil
Additional Categories: Language, Multi-Activity
Fun & smart! The perfect vacation for your kids! Ecole du Soleil runs for 5 weeks beginning Monday, June 17 through Friday, July 19, 2019 on our Los Feliz campus. La Petite Ecole du Soleil is for campers in preschool (born in 2016) & pre-kindergarten (born in 2015). La Grande Ecole du Soleil is for kindergarten-5th graders. L’Ecole du Soleil offers a bustling daily schedule and a watchful counseling staff. Our objective is to introduce children to the French language and culture. We provide a unique learning context in which children learn at their own pace in a fun, genuine, French summer camp environment. Previous exposure to French is not required.
Dance
Debbie Allen Dance Academy – Early Bird Summer Camp
Additional Categories: Health & Wellness, Performing Arts/Theater & Music
Debbie Allen Dance Academy Associate Artistic Director and Early Bird Dean, Vivian Nixon, leads this three-week adventure introducing children, ages 4-7 to the exciting world of dance. Students participate in fun-filled days learning different dance techniques such as ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, flamenco, African, and enjoy voice classes, story time, naps, and field trips! At the end of the camp, your Early Bird will get to show you what they have worked on all summer in a final showcase.
Modeling
Modeling Camp
Additional Categories: Fashion, Health & Wellness
Modeling Camp invites all girls to 'discover the model in you' this summer! Come explore the world of modeling and fashion at this empowering summer camp. Each day, campers learn about the industry through a series of workshops, photo shoots and daily challenges with top industry professionals! Featured on GOOD MORNING AMERICA and NBC NEWS, Modeling Camp helps girls learn about modeling in a fun, non-competitive environment and walk away not only with knowledge of the industry but with valuable life skills that they can apply to their everyday life! From fashion shows to your own photo shoot, from personal style to the latest trends...Modeling Camp is the ideal camp for ALL fashionistas! Camp Dates: July 15-19. Visit us at www.modelingcamp.com!
Outdoor Activity
Tumbleweed Day Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
Tumbleweed Day Camp has been providing children with a place to unplug, explore and play for over 60 years on 100 acres of beautiful, unspoiled nature in the Santa Monica Mountains. Tumbleweed offers over 100 activities including archery, swimming, horseback riding, and ropes courses. Tumbleweed campers have fun, learn from highly trained counselors and grow into the best versions of themselves. A summer at Tumbleweed is a summer where your child will laugh, let loose, and make new friends. A summer they will never forget. Transportation included. Register today at www.tumbleweedcamp.com or call 310-472-7474. We invite you to join us for our Open Houses on March 10th and March 31st at 12:00 pm!
LA County Youth Sailing Camp
Additional Categories: Sports & Recreation
Los Angeles County Lifeguards will instruct beginning sailing courses teaching students basic sailing knowledge and terms, boat maintenance and rigging, knot tying, tacking, docking and instruction to ocean sailing. Students will learn to sail on 14-foot Capri sailboats (with main sail and jib). In the final days of the session, students will get experience on 24-foot MacGregor sailboats
Cali Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
Cali Camp is a summer day camp for children ages 3- 15 We provide transportation in the cost of camp tuition, and offer many stops throughout the valley and city Cali Campers will enjoy daily swimming and a variety of Classic Camp activities We have everything from horseback riding to go carts, rock climbing and zip lining We also balance out the adventure with dance, arts and crafts, and drama If sports are more your thing, you’ll love our beach volley ball court, back yard games and sports, ping pong, foosball, and even some Harry Potter Quidditch! We pride ourselves on our amazing staff who combined a have hundreds of years of camp experience working with children Cali Camp will quickly become your home away
Performing Arts/Theater & Music
Second City Comedy Camps
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Campers exercise their sense of play through improv games and exercises that are the foundation of The Second City’s unique brand of comedy. Our teachers will work with these young improvisers to help enhance their ability to communicate with others and develop confidence in their own creativity while working as part of an ensemble. Our summer comedy camps attract students from all over the world to learn improv, make friends, and perform on our stage! No previous experience is needed. We have 1-Week camps in BOTH Hollywood and Pasadena for ages 8-18, 1-Week Mini Camps for ages 6-7 in Hollywood and a 2-Week camp for ages 12-18 in Hollywood. Camps end with a show where the students show off what they’ve learned!
Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum – Summer Theatre Camps for all Ages!
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Speech and Language
Theatricum's classes, workshops, and camps seek to empower students with confidence; provide them opportunities to practice collaboration, creative and critical thinking in a positive, nurturing environment; and to introduce them to Shakespeare and great moments in American history with the goal of inspiring a lifelong relationship with language, history, and art. This summer, Theatricum Botanicum is offering our beloved Youth Drama Camp Shakespeare (ages 8-14), Youth Americana Music Camp (ages 8-14), Young People's Camp (ages 4-7), Theatricum Teen Repertory (ages 15-18), and more! Experience the magic of exploring Shakespeare (and folk music!) under the oak trees at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum!
Colburn Performing Arts Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
Explore all that the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts has to offer with an experience that will allow your child to sing, act, and discover their talents. A typical day at the full-day camp will include choir rehearsals and classes in drama, musicianship, and Dalcroze. Additional electives are chosen based on student interest in dance, guitar, percussion, and keyboard studies. No experience required. Additional summer offerings for experienced music students. Join us for an Open House June 1, 10am-4pm.
Performing Arts Workshops
Additional Categories: Dance, Multi-Activity
Past winner of BEST Camp in LA Parent. Performing Arts Workshops’ award winning camps include: Musical Theater, Camp LOL, Guitar, Filmmaking, Magic, Stage Makeup, The Mic, Photography and Debate Camp! PAW offers the ultimate “Arts” experience from rehearsal to performance. Children ages 5-15 can perform in: HIP-HOP HAMILTON, FINDING THE WIZARD OF OZ, ALADDIN, GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and CINDERELLA. Sessions run 6/17-8/16. All a child needs is a curiosity and a passion for performing, whether they are novices or seasoned thespians. Shows are free and open to family and friends. Nine locations include: LA, Valley and beach cities. Teachers are nurturing, skilled instructors who bring out the best in children and create a summer camp experience where kids make friends and lifelong memories.
Opera Camp at LA Opera
Additional Categories: Academic & Education
Find your voice and take the stage at Opera Camp. Are you between the ages of 9-17 years old and looking to perform and have fun this summer? Join LA Opera’s Opera Camp. Spend three inspiring weeks (July 15-August 3), Mon-Fri 9am-3pm at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with us learning and performing a fully staged opera (yes, you get to perform at the opera house). Get ready to sing, move and challenge yourself all while meeting people who love the arts as much as you do. You don’t have to be a superstar to join us. We just want to get to know you. Audition sign-ups begin February 4 and are necessary for all campers.
Hollywood Filmmaking Camp
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity
American Academy Filmmaking Camp is open for enrollment! Summer dates: July 8 - July 26th, 9 am- 4 pm. This immersive filmmaking camp is geared to young actors, writers & directors ages 10-13 who have a serious interest in the entertainment industry and have a desire to spend three weeks writing, producing and filming 3 creepy short films entitled "STRANGEST THINGS”! Workshops included in this camp experience will expose students to top industry professionals from CBS, Netflix, Marvel Films and more. This camp was voted an LA PARENT MAGAZINE FAVORITE. Limited class size - enroll now!
Science
Camp Discovery
Additional Categories: Academic & Education
Summer Camps at the Cube starting June 17th to July 29th! Exciting coding challenges, wild animal discoveries and science wonders await your kids this summer at Discovery Cube's hands-on camps. We offer several different programs that give kids of all ages the chance to investigate science through fun, one-of-a-kind experiences.
Project Scientist
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Tech
Project Scientist has a fun-filled program for your daughter this summer. Project Scientist's Summer STEM Academy immerses girls ages 4-12 in STEM through fun-filled experiments, weekly field trips to top science and technology companies, and daily interactive seminars with STEM Superstars — women thriving in the STEM field. Project Scientist's credentialed teachers provides girls high-quality STEM education every day by delving into each subject with hands-on activities and experiments. This summer, girls will learn many exciting topics, including the science of crime, robotics, dissection, DNA, transportation, and more. Find a program near you at http://projectscientist.org/summer-stem-academy.
California Science Center Hands-On Science Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education
Welcome to Summer 2019 Enroll your child today for a fun and engaging summer of science and exploration! Exciting explorations, delightful discoveries and wild wonders await your child this summer at the California Science Center’s Hands-On Science Camp. Hands-On Science Camp offers weeklong day camps for children in Pre-K through 10th grade with more than 30 courses investigating physics, chemistry, biology, space, and earth sciences. Camp is staffed with trained educators that hold degrees in science and/or education and working professionals from a variety of science fields.
Sleep Away
Camp Ocean Pines
Additional Categories: Multi-Activity, Outdoor Activity
Give your child a life-changing experience at Camp Ocean Pines in Cambria, California. We’re a small nature-based resident camp, in a pine forest overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Your camper will build friendships, experience amazing nature, and just get to be a kid! Our Teen Programs will let your older teens travel with new friends and explore some beautiful and fun places! Everything we do is focused around our three values of Connect, Explore and Grow all while having endless fun. We know you’ll agree, there is no place like Camp Ocean Pines.
Sports & Recreation
Sports Camps Malibu
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We have a passion for building kids of character. Operated by some of the best coaches and teachers in the United States. Our camps absolutely love watching the growth of our campers, not only as players but as people. We take character-building and athletic training to the next level- Come join us to see what we are all about at Malibu Sports Camps. Located on the beautiful Pepperdine University Malibu Campus. Check out our options: Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Running, Tennis, Water Polo, Beach Volleyball & Swimming. Both day camp and residential camp options, May- August.
Avant-Garde Fencing Camp
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Is your daughter or son interested in sword fighting like a Musketeer, Jedi, Robin Hood, or Joan of Arc? Than fencing is the answer! During this weeklong program, students will learn the basics of the sport through games and fun activities away from the blazing hot summer of Southern California. Campers will discover a strong sense of empowerment, self-confidence and leadership through fencing, that is both centuries old and completely contemporary because it uses high-tech equipment. It is a fun camp that introduces children to a great Olympic and National College Athletic Association sport. Be ready for a fantastic experience!
Got Game Camp
Additional Categories: Academic & Education, Multi-Activity
The Got Game Summer Camp is the premier Los Angeles day camp for kids ages 4-14! Daily schedules are comprised of traditional sports, short and long term art/science and collaborative projects, tons of original games, water play, special on-site surprises and much more! Campers are broken into groups based on age! Got Game coaches are professional PE instructors and teachers that work with us all year at our many after school and PE sites. Summer Camp is 9 weeks beginning on June 10th! Sign up for one week, or sign up for multiple weeks! Every Monday starts a brand new camp! Got Game is more than just a camp...it's a culture! Come be a part of our greater Got Game family!
Prime Time Sports Camp
Additional Categories: Gymnastics, Tech
LESS TALK. MORE PLAY. That's our motto. For 29 years, we've followed a simple formula and it works. Professional Staff + Low Staff Ratio + Top Facilities + Flexible Scheduling + Age-Appropriate Sports and Games = A Great Summer. If you're child is 4-14 years old and you live near one of our locations (SANTA MONICA at CROSSROADS, WEST LA and SILVER LAKE) then come on by and see why, "There's No Time Like PRIME TIME!" (our other motto). Sign up between March 1st and May 1st and Save 10%. Also, check out our 50/50 Camp Series (half sports camp / half...), featuring Prime Time Tech, Dance and Cheer Camp and Prime Time Lacrosse! Summer Camp Dates: June 10 - August 16. Spring Camp: April 15 - 19.
Omega Marketing Group Sports
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We are a year round co-ed youth basketball camp for children ages 8-14, with location at Poinsettia Park, on Sundays 10-12noon and Pan Pacific Park, Sundays 2-4pm. All skill levels are welcome and your first camp class is always FREE of charge and you get a FREE OMG Camp Tee! Please grab your coolest sneakers and join us this Sunday for some hoops.
Dan the Man’s Superkids
Additional Categories: Gymnastics
Superkids provides an awesome indoor camp with lots activities! Our camp is for ages 3 - 10 years, children are organized in age appropriate groups for the day. Campers will enjoy fun gym play in the gymnastics facility, arts and crafts, sports and games, obstacle courses and recreational gymnastics! Camps are held during the Spring, Summer and Winter breaks!
Games
Active Learning Chess, Game Design, Minecraft and Animation Camps
Additional Categories: Sports & Recreation, Tech
Experienced, rated chess coaches teach children of all abilities to improve their game. No experience is necessary as lessons will be designed based upon the skills of the children. 1/2 days or full days available. Children may also choose our 1/2 day game creation course where children create their own video game using our custom curriculum and Kodu by microsoft, or they can choose our modding networking with minecraft course. (children learn about computer networking while using mods in team contests, challenges, and other minecraft builds. Finally, children may choose our scratch animation program, creating animated stories while learning the basics of coding with Scratch.