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Prospect Sierra Summer Program offers week-long summer camps that include academic classes, outdoor play, movement, and exploration. Campers can take part in activities such as middle school math using curriculum from Stanford, Spanish cooking, basketball, volleyball, filmmaking, literature, math, writing, science, engineering, history, music, physical education, mindfulness, and themed sessions focused on topics like Pokemon, myths and legends, Harry Potter, dragons, unicorns and magical creatures, wizards, witches and story-based spell-making, magical worlds and map-making, heroes and quests, castles, knights, medieval life, Narnia, Lord of the Rings, superheroes, magical artifacts, villains, monsters, space and astronomy topics, earth science, sustainability, engineering and simple machines, Rube Goldberg–style chain reaction machines, world cultures, and water and ocean science. The program also includes Panther Basketball Camp and Intro to Filmmaking with visual storytelling, editing, and video production.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Six weeks of camps for rising K–8 students, with one-week sessions; rising K–5 camps run Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. with optional extended care 4:00–6:00 p.m., and rising 5–8 camps run daily 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. with a 30-minute lunch; camps are offered Week 1 (June 22–26), Week 2 (June 29–July 2, no camp July 3), Week 3 (July 6–10), Week 4 (July 13–17), Week 5 (July 20–24), and Week 6 (July 27–31).
• Price: Grades K–5 are $500 per week with a $400 holiday week rate June 29–July 2; Grades 5–8 are $400 per week, with the June 30–July 2 session priced at $320.
For rising K–5 students, each camp has grade-banded groups for K–1st, 2nd–3rd, and 4th–5th, with 12–30 students led by Summer Lead Teachers and Summer Teaching Fellows, and each student completes an end-of-week culminating project and receives a PS Summer T-shirt. For rising 5–8 students, project-based camps use curriculum from Stanford for middle school math and run in stable groups of 12–24 students led by a Summer Lead Teacher. Panther Basketball Camp is led by veteran PE teacher and basketball coach Nick Hernandez, who is the PS Varsity Coach and is conducting camp for his 21st season, and Intro to Filmmaking is led by PS humanities teacher David Allen, a veteran 5th grade humanities teacher.
Prospect Sierra is a nationally recognized independent, all-gender TK–8 school that enrolls 470 students and combines impactful academic experiences with a focus on human emotions, self-knowledge, intellectual engagement, and care for others. Prospect Sierra students have taken part in community involvement projects such as cleaning up the CEID yard, beautifying the Tapscott campus, making food bags for SOS Richmond, preparing toiletry kits for WDDIC, helping at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, and visiting the West Oakland Mural Project honoring the women of the Black Panther Party.
Last updated April 13, 2026.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
• Schedule: Six weeks of camps for rising K–8 students, with one-week sessions; rising K–5 camps run Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. with optional extended care 4:00–6:00 p.m., and rising 5–8 camps run daily 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. with a 30-minute lunch; camps are offered Week 1 (June 22–26), Week 2 (June 29–July 2, no camp July 3), Week 3 (July 6–10), Week 4 (July 13–17), Week 5 (July 20–24), and Week 6 (July 27–31).
• Price: Grades K–5 are $500 per week with a $400 holiday week rate June 29–July 2; Grades 5–8 are $400 per week, with the June 30–July 2 session priced at $320.
For rising K–5 students, each camp has grade-banded groups for K–1st, 2nd–3rd, and 4th–5th, with 12–30 students led by Summer Lead Teachers and Summer Teaching Fellows, and each student completes an end-of-week culminating project and receives a PS Summer T-shirt. For rising 5–8 students, project-based camps use curriculum from Stanford for middle school math and run in stable groups of 12–24 students led by a Summer Lead Teacher. Panther Basketball Camp is led by veteran PE teacher and basketball coach Nick Hernandez, who is the PS Varsity Coach and is conducting camp for his 21st season, and Intro to Filmmaking is led by PS humanities teacher David Allen, a veteran 5th grade humanities teacher.
Prospect Sierra is a nationally recognized independent, all-gender TK–8 school that enrolls 470 students and combines impactful academic experiences with a focus on human emotions, self-knowledge, intellectual engagement, and care for others. Prospect Sierra students have taken part in community involvement projects such as cleaning up the CEID yard, beautifying the Tapscott campus, making food bags for SOS Richmond, preparing toiletry kits for WDDIC, helping at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, and visiting the West Oakland Mural Project honoring the women of the Black Panther Party.
Last updated April 13, 2026.
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