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140 Balboa Street @ 3rd Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94118
Summer Camp
The Science and Art of Metal Work
Using various metals, create beautiful jewelry, magnets, boxes, bookmarks, candle holders and more. Learn about the fascinating science behind your artwork that makes it possible for you to easily manipulate hard metals without flexing your muscles!
About the instructor: Aimee Golant is an accomplished artist and a sixth generation blacksmith. Aimee’s work appears in private collections and museums. Among other places she teaches at The Crucible and the Waldorf School.
Electrical Connections
Discover the shocking truth about electricity and put it to work. Create circuits, switches and fuses from scratch to create working machines and toys. Run your imagination wild designing your own project!
This program is presented in collaboration with the award winning San Francisco State University’s Engineering Design Center. The center enhances engineering education in conjunction with the university and is headed by Larry Klingenberg.
"Hi, I'm a Robot"
Welcome to the future. In this class you'll learn to make a robot play music, play with other robots and even dance to an electronic music machine! And this is just the beginning of where playing around with robots can take you... the limit is only your imagination.
This program is presented in collaboration with the award winning San Francisco State University’s Engineering Design Center. The center enhances engineering education in conjunction with the university and is headed by Larry Klingenberg.
Top Chef Meets Cool Chemistry
Great tasting cookies, incredible pasta, and mouth watering main courses - all are made possible thanks to proteins, fat, and carbohydrates. You'll be cooking up some pretty neat food ideas in our lab all the while learning about proteins, carbs and fats. How do these things make it possible for us to bake and cook our favorite foods? You will find out as we learn all about the subject of good nutrition. And don't forget: we get to eat the experiments!
Each day will feature a different element of nutrition.
Wacky Weather Fun
Learn about tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, rain, fog, snow and all kinds of other cool things. Take measurements and build instruments that actually predict the weather. Meteorologists don't have a crystal ball but the stuff they do sometimes seems almost magical. You will get to be so good at predicting the weather that we will compare their daily predictions to ours.
60% of all deaths in the USA are caused by 4 diseases: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetics. Why are these diseases so common? How do they hurt us? What can we do to prevent them from happening to us? Through fun hands-on activities we will learn about the heart, blood vessels, and blood cells. Together we will walk to the farmer’s market to choose food that is healthy and delicious. We’ll learn to design and prepare our own healthy lunches. Finally, we will witness first hand how different sports affect our hearts. After taking this multi-themed class, French Fries will never look the same!
Date |
Class | Grade in Sept 08 |
|---|---|---|
| June 16-20 | Top Chef | Grades 3-6 |
| Metalsmith | Grades 2-5 | |
| June 23-27 | Robots | Grades 3-6 |
| Wacky Weather | Grades 3-6 | |
| June 30-July 4 | Top Chef | Grades 3-6 |
| July 7-11 | Metalsmith | Grades 3-6 |
| Top Chef | Grades 3-6 | |
| July 14-18 | Robots | Grades K-3 |
| Top 4 Killers | Grades 3-6 | |
| July 21-25 | Robots | Grades 3-6 |
| Wacky Weather | Grades K-3 | |
| July 28-August 1 | Electrical Connections | Grades 3-6 |
| Wacky Weather | Grades K-3 | |
| August 4-8 | Metalsmith | Grades 3-6 |
| Electrical Connections | Grades K-3 | |
| August 11-15 | Top 4 Killers | Grades 3-6 |
| Wacky Weather | Grades 3-6 | |
| August 18-22 | Top Chef | Grades 3-6 |
| August 25-29 | Top Chef | Grades 2-5 |
Fees:
- $320 per week
- Week of June 30th: $258
- Register for two or more weeks and receive $20 off each class
- Extended Care: 8-9am/3-6pm, $8/hour
1. Our unique program focuses on the building blocks of science which are often the most vital for sparking an interest in further scientific learning.
2.Our program is associated with award winning institutions including The Weitzman Institute of Science and San Francisco State University.
3.Our class size is small and intimate: 10-14 kids, each with 2 teachers.
4. Our beautiful studios are filled with natural light and create an inviting learning environment. They are well equipped with up-to-date technology: computers, flat screens, etc…, and are ADA compliant.
5. We offer flexible extended care which allows you to decide in advance, or at the last minute, when you want to pick up your child. (8-9am and 3-6pm)
