Brains & Motion Education Summer Camps

2465 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

map2465 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

About

Brains & Motion Education Summer Camps offers project-based explorations in STEAM topics alongside sports, guided movement, guided recess, and outdoor exploration. Campers take part in activities such as coding, game design, creative writing, animation, soccer, AI, and machine learning, as well as low-key group activities. Specific sessions include 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, Robotics & Engineering Lab with LEGO & Micro:bit, Physically Active Coding with Unruly Splats, Interactive Game Design in Scratch, Collaborative Coding Challenges, Engineering Concepts with LEGO, hands-on design thinking challenges, and building stability and testing structures, along with narrative-based challenges using Dash Robots that explore algorithms and coding in the Path App, practice design thinking and environment building, discover engineering principles, and build narrative adventures.

• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Weekly camp sessions offered July 6–10, July 13–17, July 20–24, July 27–31, August 3–7, and August 10–14
• Price: $595.00 per camp session

Brains & Motion Education Summer Camps states a mission to spark kids’ curiosity, creativity, and love of learning by blending STEAM adventures with sports and joyful outdoor movement, with a focus on holistic development that includes intellectual and physical growth in a fun, inclusive environment. The program describes its approach as whole-child enrichment for grades K–8 and notes that its programs blend STEAM, sports, and social-emotional learning, with activities intentionally combining STEAM, movement, communication, and collaboration while focusing on building 21st-century competencies and supporting academic growth, emotional well-being, social development, and physical health. The organization reports 1,100 school partnerships and 100,000 students empowered.

Instructors and coaches are described as heavily vetted, with every candidate undergoing extensive background checks, and as receiving extensive training in their subject areas and in child development, along with continuous professional development to stay current with educational practices and techniques. The curriculum is described as expertly crafted, and camps include offerings that blend physical activity and technology to teach foundational coding skills. The leadership team includes Bart Epstein (CEO), Frank Bonanno (CFO), Kristopher Kasper (COO), Rob Magliano (CRO), Sean Zinsley (CTO), Jody Nova (VP of 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 organization also offers summer camps, before and after-school programs, and guided recess year-round. A limited time offer is listed as “Buy 3 Weeks of Camp, Get 1 Free.” One parent testimonial from Trustpilot states that the program is “so well rounded providing activities across the entire STEAM range,” that the parent’s son enjoys his time each day, that it feels “much more enriched than your average after care program,” and that “the instructors are all great,” with specific praise for an instructor named Ms. Sierra as helpful, kind, very bright, and clearly loving what she does.

Last updated May 11, 2026.

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