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Lego Camps, Science Camps, Arts Camps
Summer is a unique time for children to explore their interests, to make new friends, to gain knowledge, and to develop new skills. The Pacific Coast Kids summer camp program is specifically designed to meet the diverse needs of children. With purpose-built course materials targeting the right grade level led by experienced and credentialed teachers, we lay the solid foundation to help each child to excel. Since we focus on the participation of all children, inspire creativity, and encourage solutions to challenging projects at an individual level, each child is poised to succeed. Pacific Coast Kids offers a wide range of summer camp options from Lego Camps, Science Camps, and Arts Camps. Within each summer camp category, there are multiple classes tailored to different grade levels. Each summer camp class has its own theme. Projects and activities within each class are designed to inspire children's imagination and creativity, to encourage interactions among campers, and to help to build self-esteem. |
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For details of our summer camp classes, click on each class in the summer camp offers in table below. |
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Why Pacific Coast Kids
- • Diverse selection of camps
Campers have a wide variety of summer camps to choose from based on their individual interests and hobbies
- • Grade-differentiated classes
Campers are in a supportive environment where they can comfortably interact with children who are in the same grades and with similar interests
- • Experienced, credentialed teachers
Campers benefit from high quality instructions and experience well-organized classroom learning environment while having fun inside and outside the classrooms
KinderSmart Camp: Entering Kindergarten
New Camp
Location: Palo Alto and Los Altos
For many children, entering kindergarten can be a giant transition as these children face new environments and schedules. We understand these challenges and are committed to make that transition as smooth as possible for the young children through a wonderful KinderSmart experience.
Specifically designed to suit the needs of children entering kindergarten, LegoGartener is fun and engaging. With multiple projects at the right developmental level every day, campers learn to adjust to the longer learning period while immersing themselves in exciting Lego creations using simple machine concepts. Under the guidance of credentialed teachers, campers explore new ideas and learn new skills in a supportive environment.
The KinderSmart camp is perfect for children entering Kindergarten. Come and experience this fantastic summer camp!
Sample KinderSmart projects include:
•A Spinning Amusement Park Ride
•A Whirling Helicopter Car
•A Gear-driven Rotating Fan
•A Flipping, Twisting Lego Acrobat
•A Speeding Motor Spin Car
•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.
Action Legos® Camp: Entering Grades K-1
Updated Projects
Location: Palo Alto and Los Altos
If you want to take more than one week of camp involving Action Legos, here is the recommended sequence Entering Grade in Fall 2012
Lego Camp Track involving Action Legos
1st Grade
Action Legos
LegoMotion 2nd Grade
Action Legos
LegoMotion Motor Mania
Guided by credentialed and experienced teachers, and offered in both Palo Alto and Los Altos locations, this is the Silicon Valley's perfect class for children who enjoy playing with Lego®s and exploring the world around them.
During this Lego® 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.
Action Lego Camp is a special class for the rising 1st and 2nd graders. Come and experience the action and excitement in Lego building!
Sample Action Legos® projects include:
•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.
LegoMotion Camp: Entering Grades 1st, 2nd & 3rd
Updated Projects
Location: Palo Alto and Los Altos
If you want to take more than one week of camp involving LegoMotion, here is the recommended sequence Entering Grade in Fall 2012
Lego Camp Track involving Legomotion
1st Grade
Action Legos
LegoMotion 2nd Grade
Action Legos
LegoMotion Motor Mania3rd Grade
LegoMotion
Motor Mania Legobotics
This is an ideal summer camp class for children who love building Lego® creations. Through the guidance of credentialed teachers and experienced staff, LegoMotion provides a perfect environment to help creative minds leapfrog to the next level.
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.
Designed to help summer camp students to be Lego-smart, LegoMotion is especially enjoyable for every 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade campers. Come and experience this original and innovative summer camp!
Sample LegoMotion projects include:
•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.
Motor Mania Lego® Camp: Entering Grades 2nd, 3rd, & 4th
Updated Projects
Location: Palo Alto and Los Altos
If you want to take more than one week of camp involving Motor Mania, here is the recommended sequence Entering Grade in Fall 2012
Lego Camp Track involving Motor Mania
2nd Grade
Action Legos
LegoMotion Motor Mania3rd Grade
LegoMotion
Motor Mania Legobotics 4th Grade
Motor Mania
Legobotics Star Wars
In this Lego camp, creations not only move, but also are propelled by motors! The Motor Mania summer camp is a pioneer in teaching advanced engineering and mechanical principles through fun-filled creative projects. Taught by credentialed teachers and assisted by experienced staff, this summer camp class will surely ignite a child's imagination and creativity.
Kids who love to see their creations in motion will love this challenging yet exciting 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.
Come and experience this innovative summer camp!
Sample Motor Mania projects include:
•A Helicopter
•A High-Speed Race Car
•A Fantastic Motorcycle
•And Many More!
Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.
Legobotics Lego® Camp: Entering Grades 3rd, 4th, & 5th
Updated Projects
Location: Palo Alto and Los Altos
If you want to take more than one week of camp involving Legobotics, here is the recommended sequence Entering Grade in Fall 2012
Lego Camp Track involving Legobotics
3rd Grade
LegoMotion
Motor Mania Legobotics4th Grade
Motor Mania
Legobotics Star Wars5th Grade
Legobotics
Star Wars Mindstorms Robotics
Imagine all kinds of amazing remote-controlled Lego® creations – LegoBots – being brought to life by their talented LegoBot creators! These LogoBot creators are our summer camp students who excel under the guidance of our credentialed teachers.
In this action-packed Lego® camp, campers will build one-of-a-kind LegoBots to participate in games and tackle challenges. Students build exciting LegoBots that move, spin, roll, and even climb using Lego® Technic parts and Lego® motors. Each creation has a unique and dynamic mechanism that demonstrates different engineering principles and provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for campers to learn how to use gears, motors, balance, and kinetic and potential energy to bring their LegoBots to life. Designing their own LegoBots as well as assembling Legos® in completely new and unique ways helps children address challenges through innovative approaches and improves their problem-solving skills.
Come and experience this brilliant and dynamic summer camp!
Sample projects of remote-controlled LegoBots include:
•A rope-climbing LegoBot
•A steerable remote-controlled CycleBot
•A disc-launching LegoBot
•A six-legged walking HexaBot
•And Many More!
Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.
Star Wars Lego Camp: Entering Grades 4th & 5th
NEW Camp for 2012
Location: Palo Alto and Los Altos
If you want to take more than one week of camp involving Star Wars Lego Camp, here is the recommended sequence Entering Grade in Fall 2012
Lego Camp Track involving Star Wars Lego Camp
4th Grade
Motor Mania
Legobotics Star Wars5th Grade
Legobotics
Star Wars Mindstorms Robotics
Live the excitement of Star Wars in a Palo Alto Lego Summer Camp where children build incredible and unique creations from the Star Wars universe – unlike anything that they've built before. Bring these favorite Star Wars creations to life by designing and constructing remote-controlled vehicles, robots and spaceships employing Lego Technic parts and up to four Lego Technic motors.
Through building complex, unique, and exciting projects and understanding the dynamic mechanisms associated with them, summer camp students gain knowledge on engineering principles, scientific theories and facts about the universe. The Star Wars Lego Camp curriculum presents an excellent opportunity for students to learn numerous physics and mechanics principles such as torque, power, complex gear trains, locomotion, mechanical advantages, and much more! Taking on the challenging of building models in innovative and unique ways under the guidance of our credentialed teachers, our summer camp students naturally improve their problem solving and critical thinking skills.
The Star Wars Lego® Camp is specially designed for kids entering 4th and 5th grades. Come and experience this fantastic and one-of-a-kind summer camp!
Sample projects of Star Wars Lego Camp include:
•A landspeeder that acts like it actually hovers as it glides and bounces away from obstacles
•A two-wheeled droiddeka that amazingly balances on just two wheels
•A customized lightsaber for each unique jedi camper
•A speeder bike that ACTUALLY FLIES!
•An array of star wars vehicles that roll and crawl seem to hover
•A two-legged C3PO that actually walks
•And Many More!
Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.
Mindstorms Robotics Lego® Camp: Entering Grades 5th, & 6th
NEW Camp for 2012
Location: Palo Alto and Los Altos
If you want to take more than one week of camp involving Mindstorms, here is the recommended sequence Entering Grade in Fall 2012
Lego Camp Track involving Mindstorms Robotics
5th Grade
Legobotics
Star Wars Mindstorms Robotics6th Grade
Mindstorms Robotics
Science and Technology are important subjects for higher grade students, yet they can be challenging. From our point of view, they don't have to be. That is why we've introduced the Mindstorms Robotics Lego camp – a smart way to make science and technology learning fun!
Available at both Palo Alto and Los Altos locations, the Mindstorms Robotics Lego Camp offers summer camp students an exciting opportunity to learn everything about robotics – from design to programming robots – in an engaging "hands-on minds-on" environment expounding science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts. The week-long themed adventure engages campers and makes their participation part of the evolving story.
Working with the Mindstorms NXT2 technology – the latest robotics technology available from Lego – summer camp students will learn not only basic robotic engineering and programming principles, but also applied knowledge for real-world problem solving. Our small group setting under the guidance of credentialed teachers encourages team collaboration, and ensures individualized attention and success for each and every student.
The Mindstorms Robotics camp is perfect for satisfying a young mind's desire for science and technology while having tons of fun. Come and experience this challenging yet exciting summer camp!
Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.
Young Scientist: Entering Grades 1-2
Pacific Science Academy: Entering Grades 3-5
Learning science at Pacific Coast Kids Summer Camp is fun! Specially designed to bridge the summer gap between school years and taught by credentialed teachers, the Pacific Coast Kids science camp fosters a unique atmosphere where the campers receive ample individualized attention and appropriate grade-level instruction to strengthen the learning and to maximize the fun.
Well structured and organized, the exciting Pacific Coast Kids science camp challenges the minds of the campers as they explore physics, chemistry, and earth science, and investigate a wide range of scientific subjects such as energy, rocketry, magnetism, electricity, circuits, optics and more. Encouraging inquisitiveness and instilling a sense of enthusiasm about science, our science camp class helps camper to gain knowledge on how Newton's laws, kinetic and potential energy, solar energy, force and motion, electronics, air and pressure, and light and lenses are applied to some of the most important inventions in human history.
As many scientific discoveries started with experiments, our vivid demonstrations and experiments make the understanding of scientific principles easy for our campers. Hands-on projects reinforce the lessons and reveal the mystery of how devices seen in our daily lives work. The children take home their projects to share.
Come and experience an inquisitive science camp where learning is accelerated by stellar projects and mind-boggling eye-opening experiments!
Sample experiments, demonstrations, and projects:
•Learn Newton's laws and construct Pacific Pressure Rockets
•Explore kinetic and potential energy and assemble Coastal Catapults
•Investigate circuits and build Science Academy Lightsabers
•Explore electromagnetism and create BeeBee Buzzers
•Observe optical phenomena such as refraction and reflection and make Flip-Viewers
•Discover solar energy and harness the sun's power by building Pacific Pioneer Rovers
•Uncover the mystery of chemistry with fascinating reactions and experiments
•And Much More!
Projects vary by camps.
Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.
Jewelry & Artistic Design Camp: Entering Grades 1-2
Jewlery & Fashion Design Camp: Entering Grades 3-5
Confident, graceful and energetic – look beautiful and feel beautiful. This is what we encourage our campers to be. Jewelry, artistic and fashion projects are just by-products of the Pacific Coast Kids Arts Camps, here we strive to build girls' confidence, foster a sense of style and gracefulness, and inspire their creativity.
Learn the art of jewelry making and fashion design as campers create age-appropriate jewelry and clothing accessories. Designed to engage young girls' minds and enrich their experiences, Pacific Coast Kids Arts Camps build girls' confidence, and teach the science of color, symmetry and perspective. Through engaging activities, our Arts Camps encourage positive thinking and behavior. Working with many different materials and exploring a variety of techniques, girls learn how to choose the right proportion, color and texture, and then construct adorable jewelry and accessory pieces with the proper structural integrity. Selecting the matching accessories to complement their decorated outfit, the Jewelry & Fashion Design campers model their own designs in a runway fashion show at the end of the week.
Come and experience these fabulous Arts Camps! Be a confident girl!
Sample projects and activities include:
•Fashion design plan
•Jewelry Sets
•A decorative strawberry
•Dress decorations
•Dress-up Rehersal
•Plus a parent's show on Friday
•And Many More!
•Projects will vary by grades
Campers take home all the projects at no additional cost.
Each camper receives a Pacific Coast Kids T-Shirt free of charge.
•Selected 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 - 3:00pm
Pre Care Available: 8:30am - 9:00am
Post Care Available: 3:00pm - 5:30pm
- • Diverse selection of camps