•All Lego® Camps include a take-home Lego® set at no additional cost.

•All Camps include a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.

 

Hours: 9:00am - 3:30pm
Post Care Available: 3:30pm - 5:30pm

 

Hosted at Walter Hays Elementary in Palo Alto, this is the Silicon Valley’s perfect class for your child who enjoys playing with Lego®s. During this Palo Alto Summer Camp course, Action Legos puts fun in motion as students learn how to use gears, motors, potential energy, and balance to create numerous contraptions. Through the excitement of building, our summer camp students understand how gears translate motion and how different types of energy can propel vehicles and machines. After each building project, summer camp kids customize, share, and enjoy playing with their creations.

During the class, students will get to build:

•A Rubber Band Racer •A Suspended High Wire Two-Wheel Flyers for High Altitude Races •A Balloon-Powered Rocket Car •An Automatic Field Goal Kicker •And Many More!   Each camper receives a take-home Lego® set at no additional cost.   Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.

 

 

This is an ideal Palo Alto summer camp class for a child who loves Lego creations. LegoMotion inspires students to learn about kinetic and potential energy, force, magnetism, compression, balance, and wind power. As they build with some of the most fascinating Lego components ever created, campers also learn how to magnify, diminish, and redirect force to move objects at different speeds and directions. Through the construction of vehicles, machines, and other dynamic creations, the campers will understand the working principles of numerous innovative and ingenious inventions that are now part of our daily lives. Campers will also have opportunities to construct and play with their own inspired creations.

During the class, students will get to build:

•A Wild Amusement Park Ride •Steerable Cars •A Bullet Train •A Catapult •And Many More!   Each camper receives a take-home Lego® set at no additional cost.   Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.

 

Kids who love to see their creations in motion will love this challenging yet exciting Palo Alto summer camp class. Summer camp students build with Lego® motors and Lego® Technic parts. Motor Mania accelerates fun into high speed as students learn about how gears translate motion and can make objects move at different speeds. After building their models, the students customize their projects, demonstrate their imagination, and share their creations with their summer camp friends at Walter Hays Elementary in Palo Alto.

 

During the class, students will get to build:

•A Helicopter •A High-Speed Race Car •A Fantastic Motorcycle •And Many More!   Each camper receives a take-home Lego® set at no additional cost.   Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.

 

 

In this unique and dynamic Lego® summer camp, students build incredible animals that move, climb, walk, and roll using Lego® Technic parts and Lego® motors. Completing numerous motorized and non-motorized building projects, students learn how to use gears, motors, kinetic energy, and balance to bring amazing animals to life. Assembling Legos® in completely new and different ways helps children learn to address challenges through novel approaches. Additionally, the children learn about animals, their habits, how they move, and why they move the way they do.

 

During the class, students will get to build:

•A Motorized Walking Dinosaur •A Climbing Monkey •An Inventive Inchworm •And Many More!   Each camper receives a take-home Lego® set at no additional cost.   Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.

 

Unique in design and structure, the fast-paced and exciting Auto and Aero Modeling Camp allows the minds of young students to travel by land and by air. Children build a fast battery-powered racecar. They learn how motors work and how gears and axles work to transfer energy and increase speed. They snap, screw, and glue motors, gears, axles and wheels to construct an impressive vehicle. Campers then test the limits of their cars on the racetrack with their friends or over different obstacles in the classroom. In addition, kids learn about aerodynamics by building numerous styles of aircraft and safe water-propelled rockets. They experience how to fine tune their models to create wild stunts or achieve incredible distance flying both horizontally and vertically!

Extend the fun by taking home all the models at no additional cost.   Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.

 

 

Learn the art and science of jewelry making and artistic design while having fun at the same time! Designed to engage young girls' minds and enrich their experiences, this camp inspires girls' creativity while allowing them to learn jewelry making and artistic design in a supportive environment. Working with many different materials and exploring a variety of techniques, girls will learn to choose the right materials and components, and cleverly construct them into adorable jewelry and accessory pieces with the correct structural integrity. Leveraging the science of color, symmetry, perspective, and shading, artistic design teaches girls how to create art projects using a variety of techniques and mediums.

 

This camp cultivates a sense of aesthetics through making and appreciating beautiful jewelry pieces and art projects. The girls are encouraged to instill their personal creativity into their projects and be proud of what they achieve!

 

Themes vary week by week.

Campers take home all the projects at no additional cost.   Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.

Learn the art and science of jewelry making and artistic design while having fun at the same time! This is an exciting camp geared for girls in which more advanced jewelry and creations will be built. Learning various beadmaking techniques and following the principles of composition, this camp inspires the student’s imagination to explore the endless possibilities in crafting magical beaded artworks. The campers transform an array of beads with different shapes, sizes, and colors into artistic wonders. Designed to incorporate artistic, mathematical and three-dimensional concepts into each project, this camp encourage girls to apply spatial reasoning with their artistic imagination to create beaded necklaces, ear rings, bracelets, other decorative pieces. This camp cultivates a sense of aesthetics and encourages students’ appreciation of beautiful jewelry pieces and artworks.

 

This is a newly introduced camp. A minimum of ten students are required to start the camp.

Campers take home all the projects at no additional cost.   Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.