Summer at Sequoyah
Sequoyah School K-8 Campus, 535 S Pasadena Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91105
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Summer at Sequoyah includes activities such as water play, STEAM activities, stop-motion animation, filmmaking, dance, baking, boat racing, arts and crafts, athletic fundamentals, and music-focused sessions that cover music history and music theory. The program also includes instruction in rules, skill building, physical conditioning, and team dynamics. In the Summer Band Experience, participants join a rock band, choose a band name, learn and practice 3–4 songs as a group, and perform for Summerhouse campers at the end of the week.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
• Schedule: Camp days run from 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., with registration in one-week blocks and a week-long intensive training process for Counselors-in-Training, who then participate for a minimum of two additional weeks.
• Price: Summerhouse: 4-day holiday week: $516; 5-day week: $645; Daily drop-in rate: $145/day. Counselors-in-Training: 4-day holiday week: $220; 5-day week: $275; minimum of two week participation, plus the mandatory training week. Athletics clinic: $260 per student (not including Homeroom fees).
The Summerhouse Counselor-in-Training (CIT) program is for students ages 12–17 and includes a week-long intensive where participants learn management, operational, and leadership skills, then apply these skills alongside Summerhouse crew and campers during their selected two-week sessions. The Summer at Sequoyah Field Studies program is open to students seeking an outdoor experience, with trips that may feature different levels of physical exertion and that welcome participants regardless of past experience or background. Sequoyah’s summer Athletics clinic is open to all skill levels and to all members of the community, not just Sequoyah students, and STEAMy Summer offers programming focused on science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
Summer Band Experience is for young musicians with at least one year of experience on their instrument, and all instruments are welcome. Each day of this band program includes group rehearsals, individual practice time with one-on-one guidance from Dan Meyer, a lunch break, and an informal music appreciation class. The band is led by guitarist, composer, and Sequoyah after-school music teacher Dan Meyer, who is the founder and guitar player of the heavy metal band Agriculture and a composer of film music.
Summer opportunities at Sequoyah align with the school’s mission to challenge the mind, nurture the heart, and celebrate human dignity. Sequoyah School is an independent day school founded in 1958 with a progressive education model that emphasizes experiential learning, civic engagement, and social and environmental justice, and it has expanded over time from a K–6 school to include junior high and a high school. The school’s program uses hands-on, project-based learning that emphasizes thinking critically, making connections, and applying content knowledge, and it fosters collaboration, inquiry, student agency, and self-reflection through interdisciplinary, project-based learning that integrates arts, humanities, field studies, math, and science.
Sequoyah is accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). The community embraces the founders’ vision of constructing a more just world through education, and students are supported as they develop academic and social skills related to facing interesting challenges, creating beauty, and engaging with issues of social justice.
Last updated March 26, 2026.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
• Schedule: Camp days run from 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., with registration in one-week blocks and a week-long intensive training process for Counselors-in-Training, who then participate for a minimum of two additional weeks.
• Price: Summerhouse: 4-day holiday week: $516; 5-day week: $645; Daily drop-in rate: $145/day. Counselors-in-Training: 4-day holiday week: $220; 5-day week: $275; minimum of two week participation, plus the mandatory training week. Athletics clinic: $260 per student (not including Homeroom fees).
The Summerhouse Counselor-in-Training (CIT) program is for students ages 12–17 and includes a week-long intensive where participants learn management, operational, and leadership skills, then apply these skills alongside Summerhouse crew and campers during their selected two-week sessions. The Summer at Sequoyah Field Studies program is open to students seeking an outdoor experience, with trips that may feature different levels of physical exertion and that welcome participants regardless of past experience or background. Sequoyah’s summer Athletics clinic is open to all skill levels and to all members of the community, not just Sequoyah students, and STEAMy Summer offers programming focused on science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
Summer Band Experience is for young musicians with at least one year of experience on their instrument, and all instruments are welcome. Each day of this band program includes group rehearsals, individual practice time with one-on-one guidance from Dan Meyer, a lunch break, and an informal music appreciation class. The band is led by guitarist, composer, and Sequoyah after-school music teacher Dan Meyer, who is the founder and guitar player of the heavy metal band Agriculture and a composer of film music.
Summer opportunities at Sequoyah align with the school’s mission to challenge the mind, nurture the heart, and celebrate human dignity. Sequoyah School is an independent day school founded in 1958 with a progressive education model that emphasizes experiential learning, civic engagement, and social and environmental justice, and it has expanded over time from a K–6 school to include junior high and a high school. The school’s program uses hands-on, project-based learning that emphasizes thinking critically, making connections, and applying content knowledge, and it fosters collaboration, inquiry, student agency, and self-reflection through interdisciplinary, project-based learning that integrates arts, humanities, field studies, math, and science.
Sequoyah is accredited by the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). The community embraces the founders’ vision of constructing a more just world through education, and students are supported as they develop academic and social skills related to facing interesting challenges, creating beauty, and engaging with issues of social justice.
Last updated March 26, 2026.
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