Brains & Motion Education Summer Camps

2465 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

map2465 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

About

Brains & Motion Education Summer Camps offers activities that include coding, game design, artistic activities, and soccer. Campers take part in specific sessions such as Jr. Coding with Splats + Scratch, MakerSpace Creations with LEGO, Robotics with Dash Robots, Creative Game Design with Minecraft, MakerSpace & Rube Goldberg Engineering, LEGO Robotics & Strawbees Micro:bit, Game Design Lab with Minecraft & CodeCombat, MakerLab & Rube Goldberg Engineering, and Robotics & Engineering Lab with LEGO & Micro:bit. Activities also include physically active coding with Unruly Splats, interactive game design in Scratch, engineering concepts with LEGO, hands-on design thinking challenges, building stability and testing structures, exploring algorithms and coding in the Path App, design thinking and building environments for Dash to navigate, outfitting Dash to solve challenges, building narrative adventures for Dash, constructing Minecraft worlds, coding within the MakeCode platform, programming dynamic elements in Minecraft, crafting intricate buildings in Minecraft, altering gaming landscapes in Minecraft, and Minecraft building projects.

• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Weekly camps offered during the weeks of July 6–10, July 13–17, July 20–24, July 27–31, August 3–7, and August 10–14
• Price: $595.00 per course

Brains & Motion Education Summer Camps states that its mission is to spark kids’ curiosity, creativity, and love of learning by blending exciting STEAM adventures with sports and joyful outdoor movement, with a focus on holistic development that nurtures intellectual and physical growth in a fun, inclusive environment that brings out kids’ best. The program notes that its camps blend STEAM, sports, and social-emotional learning, with whole-child enrichment that includes hands-on learning, collaborative play, and joyful physical activity, and that programs are intentionally designed to blend STEAM, movement, communication, and collaboration, with social-emotional learning built into every lesson and weekly themes to inspire fresh challenges. The program offers guided recess, before and after-school programs, and summer camps year-round, and reports that it has empowered 100,000 students and formed 1,100 school partnerships.

Instructors are described as heavily vetted, with extensive background checks, and as trained in their specific subject areas as well as child development and safety protocols, including extensive training and continuous professional development to stay current with educational practices and techniques. The organization lists a leadership team that includes Bart Epstein (CEO), Frank Bonanno (CFO), Kristopher Kasper (COO), Lori Todd (VP of Sales), Jody Nova (VP of Product & Curriculum), Charissa Murphy (VP of Finance), Kirsten Tamura (Director of Talent Acquisition & Customer Service), Sarah Esquivel (Director of Sales Operations), Amanda Wright (Operations Director), Jessica De Arcos (Operations Director), Casie DiCenso (Director of Summer Camps), Mallory Davis (Director of Training & Development), and Trey Thompson (Director of Sales, West). The program also notes community involvement that includes 1,100 school partnerships and support for U.S. military families through a Department of Defense education program referenced in the CEO’s prior leadership experience.

The program highlights an expertly crafted curriculum and a limited time offer of “Buy 3 Weeks of Camp, Get 1 Free.” It also features narrative-based challenges with Dash robots as part of its robotics activities. One parent testimonial from Kristen on Trustpilot states that the program is “so well rounded providing activities across the entire STEAM range,” that her son enjoys his time each day, that she feels it is “so much more enriched than your average after care program,” and that “the instructors are all great,” specifically mentioning Ms. Sierra as helpful, kind, very bright, and clearly loving what she does.

Last updated March 16, 2026.

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