Summer Camp at Berkwood Hedge School
STEAM CAMP ON THE HILL
Explore Robotics and Coding, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics at Berkwood Hedge School’s Summer Camp! Located in the beautiful Berkeley Hills, we offer a dynamic environment complete with playtime, aftercare, and athletics. Children will engage in indoor and outdoor activities including, tinkering, building, coding, robots, crafting, painting, and so much more! Campers will cultivate friendships, develop social and athletic skills, and collaborate on creative science projects. Is your child curious, creative, playful? Join us in this innovative Summer Camp.
Our summer program brings together robotics and coding, art and design; engineering, computer science, and math to promote curiosity, discovery, and STEAM literacy. Campers learn how to solve problems as they explore the role engineering plays in their lives and the world around them. Through creative hands-on coding and engineering adventures, students build 21st century skills as they practice critical thinking to work through challenges together. Campers will learn to collaborate, communicate, solve problems and present their findings in an Engineering Showcase. Campers will have an opportunity to do additional art projects and/or to participate in our athletic and field games program in the afternoons.
8:00-9:00a Free Extended Care and Camp Rituals
9:00a -3:00p STEAM Activities with Arts, Crafts, Play, and Athletics - Each week we will focus on, and different art and engineering projects from fashioning space gloves to building rockets. Design, innovation, and imaginative thinking is at the center of our morning activities. Discover recycled racers, investigate electrical engineering, and express yourself creatively. Through a variety of camp games and team sports, we will build friendships, come together for storytelling, camp songs, and play games to celebrate our community. Lunch will take place from 12p-1p with open art, math games, and athletics.
3:00 -3:30p All-Camp Game
3:30 - 5:00p Free Extended Care
Who: Campers: entering K - 6
Where: Berkwood Hedge School Hill Campus, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709
Contact: [email protected]
When:
June 19 - 23 5 days ($600)
June 26 - 30 5 days ($600)
July 10 - 14 5 days ($600)
July 17 - 21 5 days ($600)
Camps are $600 per week. Free aftercare until 5:00p and a daily afternoon snack provided. Limited camperships are available.
Special Announcement - From June 19-23 we will include Equinox and Equinox Elders as a part of our camp, which includes imaginative play from our very own Silver Morningstar.
June 19 - June 23 Light Up the Night
“Visit” Iceland to design a display for the annual Light Festival! Explore circuits and sculpting materials. Use your creativity and knowledge of electrical engineering to design a light display that replicates the colors and patterns of the Northern Lights.
June 26 - 30 Robots, Rockets & Rovers
Explore planets and moons in the solar system. Sends messages from the International Space Station and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, learning how to engineer rovers that can explore faraway worlds.
July 10 - 14 Recycled Racers
“Visit” Senegal to learn about creative reuse and recycling. Consider items that would ordinarily be discarded and use them to engineer your own toy car and compete in the Recycled Racer Rally at the end of the week.
July 17 - 21 In Good Hands
“Visit” Antarctica to help engineer part of a space suit for a new NASA mission! Learn about space hazards and how astronauts protect themselves from extreme temperatures, impact, and dangerous dust. Work as materials engineers, considering the trade-offs of each material in your model space gloves to help astronauts complete one of three missions to an asteroid, Earth’s moon, and Mars.
