Specialty Camps
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JCC East Bay Summer Specialty Camp program will offer week-long, half day, specialized programs at both our Berkeley and Oakland branches. 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. Berkeley branch camps will take place during the weeks of June 18-Aug 10, 2012. Oakland branch camps will take place for two weeks in July (July 9-20).
This summer we’ll be offering the following camp programs: Art Journeys, Craft Camp with Gaily, Glitter& Razz-Go Girls Theater Workshop and Itty Bitty Arts Camp, Mad Science, Playwell Teknologies, Roleplaying Adventure, Incrediflix (Animation and Filmmaking camps), Pirates, Project Runaway, and Kid’s Carpentry.
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.
Extended Care
Extended-care is available from 8:00-9:00am and from 4:00-6:00pm for an additional fee at both Berkeley and Oakland branch locations.
Extended Care AM: Mem $30/Non Mem $45
Extended Care PM: Mem $55/Non Mem $65
Berkeley Branch Specialty Camps
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June 18-22
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June 25-29
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July 9-13
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July 16-20 |
Gems and Jewels: Making Jewelry (5-12) |
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July 23-27 |
Gems and Jewels: Making Jewelry (5-12) |
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Aug 6-Aug 10 |
*2 week registration required
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.
Oakland Branch Specialty Camps
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July 9-13
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July 16-20
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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.
Art Journeys -- (Mem $165/Non Mem $180)
Art Journeys emphasizes skills in drawing, painting & construction and encourages each child’s unique interpretation of a variety of subjects. This is a comprehensive art week that expands horizons by exposing students thru art projects to world cultures, artists, art movements, as well as favorite animals and characters. Sessions based on such themes as: Meet the Masters, Out of Africa, Southwest Adventure, Surfing Safari, and Zany Zoo. High quality art supplies are used.
July 9-13, 9am-12pm, Berkeley (ages 5-7)
July 23-27, 9am-12pm, Berkeley (ages 8-12)
Craft Camp with Gaily -- (all ages, Mem $135/Non Mem $150)
Gaily’s camp returns for a third year of creativity and fun! With access to high quality materials, children learn to make almost anything from magnets, stuffed animals and toys, to bags and dresses. This year the camp will also feature necklaces, rings and earrings from Gaily’s extremely popular jewelry class. These skills are very easy to learn, and produce spectacular results. Even young children make beautiful things, either for themselves or people they love.
June 18-22, 9am-12pm and 1-4pm, Berkeley
June 25-29, 9am-12pm and 1-4pm, Berkeley
Gems & Jewels: Making Jewelry -- (ages 6-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
Whether you’re an experienced jeweler or just beginning, this specialty camp takes small scale sculpture to a new level. We will experiment with making hoop earrings, wire-crimp necklaces, fimo beads, and more. Our focus will be on playing with making our own beads, how to use tools safely and effectively for new designs, and how to make one-of-a-kind pieces of art. This class celebrates making beautiful things, learning how to put colors and shapes together artfully for a personal sense of pride. This camp is offered twice with different projects each session.
July 16-20, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
July 23-27, 1-4pm, Berkeley
Glitter & Razz: Itty Bitty Arts Camp -- (Boys and Girls ages 4-6, Mem $285/Non Mem $300)
The perfect summer camp for the first time camper! Clear structure, rituals and the magic and power of play ensure that all children feel safe to express themselves in this creative environment. Led by a team of highly talented and experienced Glitter & Razz teaching artists, each week culminates in an original performance that celebrates the “work of our play.” Aftercare available from 2-4pm for an additional $75. Click here to visit their website.
July 16-20, 9am-2pm, Berkeley
July 23-27, 9am-2pm, Berkeley
Glitter & Razz: Go Girls! Summer Theater Workshops -- (Just for girls ages 6-11, Mem $625/Non Mem $640-TWO WEEK Camp)
“‘Go Girls!’ It helps us girls try to bring peace to the world.” The super popular Go Girls! Camp is new and improved and back at the JCC! Led by a team of highly talented and experienced Glitter & Razz teaching artists, girls use drama, dance, visual art, and music to express their creativity and explore how girls make friends and stand up for themselves. Final play performed on Friday afternoon, August 10 at 4pm. Click here to visit their website.
July 30-Aug10, 9am-4pm, Berkeley
Green Engineering with LEGO® -- (ages 7-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
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.
July 30-Aug 3, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
IncrediFlix: Acting for Flix (ages 7-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175, additional $30 production fee collected on first day)
So you want to be on camera? Whether you’re completely new at this, or want to improve your skills, this camp is designed to bring you to the next level. We have practice casting calls, we have training, and at the end you’ll make your own commercial! We’ll send it all to you on DVD, so you have it for your reel or just to use for practice.
July 23-27, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
IncrediFlix: Animation Flix --(ages 7-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175, additional $30 production fee collected on first day)
Join us for the ultimate in animation creation. Each day you’ll make a new movie, with different styles of stop-motion animation. Furniture may run across the floor, clay stars may explode, or your favorite toy may even come to life! This is the ultimate arts and crafts camp where you will create, direct, and film in age appropriate groups. All flix will be professionally edited and a DVD will be mailed to every student.
June 25-29, 1-4pm, Berkeley
IncrediFlix: Cartoon Flix (ages 7-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175, additional $30 production fee collected on first day)
Your characters can fly over mountaintops, destroy cities, or swim the deepest oceans! In age appropriate groups, you’ll make a paper-animated flick where you get to create your own character, build backgrounds, shoot your movie, and provide the voice for your character. All flix will be professionally edited and a DVD will be mailed to every student.
June 25-29, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
IncrediFlix: Filmmaking Flix --(ages 7-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175, additional $30 production fee collected on first day)
Are you the next star director? Actor? Writer? Cameraman? Of course you are, and you get to do it all in these live action flix! You’ll work in groups to make your vision come true in these movies where you’ll act, write, direct, and more.
June 18-22, 1-4pm, Berkeley
July 9-13, 9am-1pm, Oakland
July 23-27, 1-4pm, Berkeley
IncrediFlix: Lego Flix (ages 7-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175, additional $30 production fee collected on first day)
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. All flix will be professionally edited and a DVD will be mailed to every student.
June 18-22, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
July 9-13, 9am-12pm, Oakland
Aug 6-10, 1-4pm, Berkeley
Jedi Engineering with LEGO® -- (ages 7-12 Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
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.
July 9-13, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
Kid's Carpentry (ages 7-12, Mem $160/Non Mem $175, additional $25 materials fee to be paid the first day of camp)
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.
July 9-13, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
July 16-20, 9am-12pm and 1-4pm, Oakland
July 30-Aug 3, 1-4pm, Berkeley
Pirate Camp -- (all ages, Mem $135/Non Mem $150)
Ahoy young pirates! Get into character and make your own eyepatch, telescope, and sword. Learn skills like map-making, nautical knot-tying, and ship building. At any time you may find your pirate hunting for treasure in the park, snacking on hardtack, and linking arms with other pirates to form a slithering sea serpent. Finally, take a trip down to the Berkeley Marina to see your new ship set sail.
July 9-13, 1-4pm, Berkeley
Project Runway -- (all ages, Mem $135/Non Mem $150)
Get in touch with your inner designer and make cool, one-of-a-kind clothes and accessories. We’ll start with the basics of hand-sewing, choose fabric, cut, pin, and sew our way to a custom-fit garment. Using stencils, sequins, and felt, we’ll transform an ordinary tote bag and headband into wearable works of art. We’ll take a trip to the thrift store and use our new skills to give old clothes a fabulous life. After finishing our work, we’ll display our creations in a glamorous fashion show.
July 16-20, 1-4pm, Berkeley
Mad Science: Crazy Chemistry -- (all ages, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
We’ll explore and create exciting chemical reactions, make colorful concoctions and bubbling brews. Amaze yourself with magical temperature changing baggie science or growing ghost crystals. Study the chemistry involved in not-so-simple things like chalk and soap, and even experiment with the chemistry used by artists, spies and detectives! Chemists bring home a project each day.
July 16-20, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
Mad Science: Flight Academy -- (all ages, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
Sign-up for Mad Science Flight Academy and explore the fundamentals of flight. Learn characteristics of the planets and discover the wonders of the Milky Way. See how air and wind affect kites, hot air balloons and parachutes. Discover the fundamentals of rocketry, the stages of rocket flight and experiment with huge water rocket launches. We each build our own launchable rockets to take home. Take-homes include the new Mad Science Skyblazer rocket, a rubber band-powered airplane, a kite, a boomerang, a mini flying disc, and more!
July 30-Aug 3, 1pm-4pm, Berkeley
Mad Science: Inventors Academy -- (all ages, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
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.
July 30-Aug 3, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
Mad Science: NASA Journey into Outer Space -- (all ages, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
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!
July 9-13, 1-4pm, Oakland
Mad Science: Secret Agent Camp -- (all ages, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
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!
July 9-13, 9am-12pm, Oakland
Mad Science: World Scientists -- (all ages, Mem $160/Non Mem $175)
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!
July 16-20, 1-4pm, Berkeley
Playwell Teknologies Pre-Engineering FUN -- (ages 5-7, Mem $165/Non Mem $180)
Create, play and learn! Build a town, city, or star base with houses, buildings, pyramids, bridges, tunnels, towers, and more. Build motorized cars, trains, bridges, tunnels, towers, and more. Build motorized cars, trains, buses, trucks; race them; crash them; repair them. Explore the many possibilities of LEGO building systems while learning useful contruction techniques.
July 16-20, 9am-12pm, Oakland
Playwell Teknologies Engineering FUNdamentals -- (ages 8-12, Mem $165, Non Mem $180)
Discover FUNdamentals of Enginnering! Learn how to design and build motorized-machines, bridges, catapults, pyramids, towers, and other constructions. Experienced students will be given new projects.
July 16-20, 1-4pm, Oakland
Role-playing Adventure -- (ages 7-12, Mem $135/Non Mem $150)
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.
June 18-22, 9am-12pm, Berkeley
June 25-29, 1-4pm, Berkeley
July 9-13, 1-4pm, Berkeley
For more information on Specialty Camps, please contact Daniel Malament at 510-848-0237 x151 or summercamps@jcceastbay.org.
