Specialty Camps
JCC East Bay Summer Specialty Camp program will offer week-long, half day, specialized programs at our Berkeley branch. These camps provide a wonderful opportunity by allowing your child to spend a week or more focused on their specialty in an enthusiastic yet intimate group environment.
This summer we’ll be offering the following camp programs: Art Journeys, Craft Camp with Gaily, Go Girls Theater Workshop, Mad Science, Martial Arts, Roleplaying Adventure, Incrediflix (Animation and Filmmaking camps), and Kid’s Carpentry. There is a half-day option (9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm) or full day (9am-4pm, including lunch coverage).
Full day option is available. Lunch will be supervised (12-1pm) by JCC staff for those campers who attend both a morning and afternoon Specialty Camp.
We are excited to host Go Girls! Camp again this summer at the JCC East Bay Berkeley branch because they offer strong programs for our community and have similar passion in working with children.
For more information on Specialty Camps, please contact Reuben Kurs at 510-848-0237 x151 or summercamps@jcceastbay.org.
Extended Care
Extended-care is available from 8:00-9:00am and from 4:00-6:00pm for an additional fee.
2013 Berkeley Branch Specialty Camps
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AM Camps 9:00am-12:00pm |
PM Camps 1:00-4:00pm
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June 17-21
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Craft Camp with Gaily
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June 24-28
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Go Girls! "Look at Me" continutes |
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July 4th Week
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No Camps |
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July 8-12 |
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Mad Science: Inventors Academy
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July 15-19 |
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Go Girls! "Onceuponatime & Ever After" continues |
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July 22-26 |
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Incrediflix: Superhero Filmmaking Flix
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July 29-Aug 2 |
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Go Girls! "OMG UR My BFF" continues |
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Aug 5-16 |
Go Girls! "Invent IT" (two-week camp)
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Full day option is available. Lunch will be supervised (12-1pm) by JCC staff for those campers who attend both a morning and afternoon Specialty Camps.
Camp Descriptions
Ananda Martial Arts - Taekwondo (all ages, Member $175 | General $190)
July 15-19, 1-4pm
Join AMAFA for a developmentally appropriate and fun Taekwondo class for youth led by Master John W. Ellis IV, who has more than 25 years of teaching experience. This class will explore Safety, Health and Wisdom through learning emergency information, martial arts drills and games, and discussions of principles. We celebrate the completion of the class with a lightsaber party on the last day. (Additional $10 Materials fee)
Ananda Martial Arts - Martial Arts Around the World (ages 7+, Member $175 | General $190)
July 22-26, 1-4pm
Join AMAFA for an eclectic sampling of popular martial arts that are practiced around the world, led by Master John W. Ellis IV, who has more than 25 years of teaching experience. This class looks at how Aikido, Capoeira, Judo, Jujutsu, Karate, Taekwondo and many other martial arts are created and developed, and investigates their differences and similarities. We will practice each martial art we study, and end the class with a party. (Additional $10 Materials fee)
Ananda Martial Arts - Martial Arts Games (all ages, Member $175 | General $190)
July 29-Aug 2, 1-4pm
Join AMAFA for an exciting and exhausting experience that helps participants raise their martial arts skills to new heights. This class will focus on increasing strength, cardiovascular capacity, flexibility, coordination, balance, and
accuracy through martial arts drills and games. These skills will help every child take joy in valuing a physically fit life. Lightsaber training is a part of class every day, and we celebrate the completion of the class with lightsaber duels on the last day. (Additional $25 Materials fee)
Craft Camp with Gaily - (all ages, Member $135 | General $150)
June 17-21, 9am-12pm
June 17-21, 1pm-4pm
June 24-28, 9am-12pm
June 24-28, 1pm-4pm
If you like making things that you can use, this is the camp for you. In the time we have we will learn how to sew and create anything from skirts, vests, and bags to stuffed animals and magnets.
Go Girls! Camp: “Look At Me” - (ages 6-11, Member $630 | General $670)
Session 1: June 17-28, all day 9am-4pm, two-week camp
Go Girls! is a movement. Our mission is to ignite a compassion revolution by putting girls center stage. In Go Girls! Camps, produced by Glitter & Razz, girls make and perform multi-media plays that express a positive self-concept, practice Kidpower ™people safety skills, and access the power of empathy to build peaceful & powerful connections with each other. In the “Look At Me” session, girls will look at what the media says girls should be, do, and look like
and then make a play about what it can really means to be a girl. For more info about the themes, the schedule of the day, the teaching artists and age breakdowns, visit gogirlscamp.com. THIS IS A TWO-WEEK CAMP.
Go Girls! Camp: “Onceuponatime & Ever After” - (ages 6-11, Member $630 | General $670)
Session 2: July 8-19, all day 9am-4pm, two-week camp
Go Girls! is a movement. Our mission is to ignite a compassion revolution by putting girls center stage. In Go Girls! Camps, produced by Glitter & Razz, girls make and perform multi-media plays that express a positive self-concept,
practice Kidpower ™people safety skills, and access the power of empathy to build peaceful & powerful connections with each other. In the “Onceuponatime & Ever After” session, girls will explore stories, fables, and fairy tales from all over the world and then make a play where the girls dare to be the heroines in their own stories. For more info about the themes, the schedule of the day, the teaching artists and age breakdowns, visit gogirlscamp.com. THIS IS A TWO-WEEK CAMP.
Go Girls! Camp: “OMG UR My BFF” - (ages 6-11, Member $630 | General $670)
Session 3: July 22-Aug 2, all day 9am-4pm, two-week camp
Go Girls! is a movement. Our mission is to ignite a compassion revolution by putting girls center stage. In Go Girls! Camps, produced by Glitter & Razz, girls make and perform multi-media plays that express a positive self-concept, practice Kidpower ™people safety skills, and access the power of empathy to build peaceful & powerful connections with each other. In the “OMG UR My BFF” session, girls will explore all the ways we choose to communicate with our friends – some that work and some that don’t – and make a play that explores what it means to be a true friend. For more info about the themes, the schedule of the day, the teaching artists and age breakdowns, visit gogirlscamp.com. THIS IS A TWO-WEEK CAMP.
Go Girls! Camp: “Invent It” - (ages 6-11, Member $630 | General $670)
Session 4: Aug 5-16, all day 9am-4pm, two-week camp
Go Girls! is a movement. Our mission is to ignite a compassion revolution by putting girls center stage. In Go Girls! Camps, produced by Glitter & Razz, girls make and perform multi-media plays that express a positive self-concept, practice Kidpower ™people safety skills, and access the power of empathy to build peaceful & powerful connections with each other. In the “Invent It” session, girls will identify problems that affect their lives and the come up with innovative ways to solve these problems. The girls will make a play that shows just how powerful girls can be in making positive change in the world. For more info about the themes, the schedule of the day, the teaching artists and age breakdowns, visit gogirlscamp.com. THIS IS A TWO-WEEK CAMP.
Green Engineering with LEGO® - (ages 7-12, Member $165 | General $180)
July 15-19, 1-4pm
Design and build machines powered by alternative energy sources. Race solar cars, build a wind-powered turbine, enter the human-powered vehicle competition, and invent a machine powered by stored elastic strain energy. Instruction provided, but familiarity with LEGO® Technic is desirable.
IncrediFlix: Animation Flix - (ages 7-13, Member $160 | General $175)
June 17-21, 1-4pm
In this high energy camp, students will create a new movie each day for a total of 5 animated flix! They’ll use different styles of stop‐motion animation for each movie, and we’ve added in some new animations this year (ending the week with face painting animation!). This is the ultimate arts and crafts camp where campers create, direct, and film in age appropriate groups. ($30 production fee due to IncrediFlix on the first day of camp)
Incrediflix: Green Screen Animation Flix (NEW) - (ages 7-13, Member $160 | General $175)
July 22-26, 9am-12pm
Take your characters underwater, to a volcano, or even to outer space. In this camp, you’ve got no limits. In age appropriate groups, you’ll brainstorm ideas, create your characters, film your movies with a green screen backdrop, select your locations, and add voice‐overs. ($30 production fee due to IncrediFlix on the first day of camp)
IncrediFlix: Lego Flix - (ages 7-13, Member $160 | General $175)
June 17-21, 9am-12pm
We know you love Legos and we know you can create incredible worlds. Now it’s time to bring those worlds to life in Lego animated flix! We provide the Legos, and you provide your imagination. Students will create a Lego set with Lego characters for a movie they storyboard, write, shoot, and voice-over in age appropriate groups. ($30 production fee due to IncrediFlix on the first day of camp)
Incrediflix: Superhero Filmmaking Flix (NEW) - (ages 7-13, Member $160 | General $175)
July 22-26, 1-4pm
What super hero power do you want? Flying? Invisibility? Super karate skills? Shot in front of a green screen, in this action packed movie camp kids will get to act, write, and direct in their own super hero adventure movie! ($30 production fee due to IncrediFlix on the first day of camp)
Jedi Engineering with LEGO® - (all ages, Member $165 | General $180)
July 15-19, 9AM-12pm
Build X-Wings, droids, and palaces inspired by designs made a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Create motorized sand crawlers, drone assembly lines, and Battlecruisers. A new offering of imaginative and original designs.
Kid's Carpentry - (ages 7-12, Member $185 | General $200)
July 15-19, 9am-12pm
July 22-26, 9am-12pm
July 29-Aug 2, 9am-12pm
Kids’ Carpentry is designed to teach boys and girls practical woodworking skills with an emphasis on the safe use of hand tools. By building a variety of fun projects, children learn a wide range of valuable carpentry skills such as
measuring, fractions, sawing, drilling, rasping, fastening, sanding, shaping, assembly, and painting. Hand in hand with the practical skills goes a wide variety of other worthy concepts such as abstract reasoning, applied mathematics,
problem solving, craftsmanship, fine motor skills, respect for tools, and patience. (Additional $25 materials fee to be paid the first day of camp)
Mad Science: Inventors Academy - (ages 7-11, JCC Member $160 | General $175)
July 8-12, 1-4pm
Each day campers are given a series of challenges they must overcome using basic materials, simple machines, tips from world famous inventors and the most important thing of all – their minds. The camp involves a team-based approach to solving problems but will also include projects like building your own Light Saber, Rocket Launcher and more. Discover and Create! $15 Lab Fee to be paid to the instructor on the first day of camp.
Mad Science: Mad Machines & Robots - (ages 8-11, Member $160 | General $175)
July 29-Aug 2, 1-4pm
Whether your child loves to build things or destroy them, this week of camp includes lots of both! The junior Mad Science engineers will design and build structures using simple tools and their imaginations. Kids will even construct a geodesic dome big enough for all the campers to sit inside! Then the machine madness starts. Children will discover how many different machines, simple & complex, we use in our daily lives. Campers will design simple machines
using pulleys, wedges, screws and levers and have fun learning how catapults work then we move on to fun with the Mad Science robots! Each camper will build robots that you can keep, all the while learning the science of robotics.
($30 lab fee payable on the first day of camp includes a take home robot)
Mad Science: NASA Journey into Outer Space - (all ages, Member $160 | General $175)
July 9-13, 1-4pm
Mad Science and NASA’s after school program is now a summer camp! From our atmosphere to the outer reaches of our solar system, this hands-on program sends campers on a quest for exploration! Comets, planets, stars and more
are all waiting to be discovered. Learn about the four forces of flight and the challenges of space travel. Camp includes a take home item every day. Join us for Earth and Beyond, Astronaut-in-Training, Solar Launch, Eye on the Sky, and Space Voyage!
Mad Science: Secret Agent Camp - (all ages, Member $160 | General $175)
June 17-21, 1-4pm
The Mad Science Secret Agent Camp is a fun journey into the world of detection, spy science, and forensics. Campers will examine the science behind the spy tools made famous by the world’s greatest spies! We will reconstruct activities using scientific methods and use the science of cryptology to send and decode secret messages. Kids will get a chance to see what can’t be seen by the naked eye and will follow in Sherlock’s steps to learn what tracks can tell us! Join the Mad Science Bureau of Investigations to help foil a burglary using state-of-the-art security techniques!
Mad Science: World Scientists - (all ages, Member $160 | General $175)
July 8-12, 9am-12pm
Spend time in the lab learning the tools and techniques that scientists use while conducting some great hands on projects. World Scientists will conduct solar experiments, explore predator and prey relationships and investigate
food webs. Take a trip into the ocean to learn what an odontocete is. Discover systems in nature, even make your own paper! Learn animal adaptations and create an insect habitat. Scientists will also discover what Mr. Owl had on his dinner plate during the famous owl pellet dissection. It’s a great week of camp!
Role-playing Adventure - (ages 7-12, Member $135 | General $150)
June 17-21, 9am-12pm
June 24-28, 1pm-4pm
Role-playing Adventure offers you the chance to enter a strange world of magic, dragons, knights and elves through classic paper-and-dice role-playing games. You will get to build your own character and get a customized character sheet you can take home. You will go on an adventure together solving puzzles, fighting enemies and completing quests. Role-playing Adventure is also a fun way to develop reading and math skills, and encourages teamwork, creative problem solving, imaginative thinking, and good listening.
For more information on Specialty Camps, please contact Reuben Kurs at 510-848-0237 x151 or summercamps@jcceastbay.org.
