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Celsius and Beyond offers weeklong deep dives where kids take part in activities such as OUTBREAK! Science, Strategy & Saving the World from Ebola and Hantavirus, Think Neuroscience!!, LEGO Robotics SPIKE & Mindstorm, LEGO Engineering (1-2), and First LEGO Robotics League (FLL) Bootcamp. The program also runs sessions in areas like LEGO Robotics and Python Programing – Advanced, Woodworking, Geophysics and Geology, Transportation – Mechanical Engineering, Ecology Outdoors Lab, Surgery!, Geometry and Nature in Ancient Indian Art, The Math of Ancient Greece, Top Chef – Street Food from Around the World, Top Chef – The Sensory Kitchen and Memory, Coding & Creative Technology, Mapping – Urban Planning, Sewing – Gone on Vacation!, Science Workshop, DNA Workshop, and Electric Car Making. Celsius and Beyond offers One Day Camps, Science Day Camp, Spring Camps, Winter Camp, and an Afterschool Program.
• Ages: 6–15 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong deep dives with Summer Camp 2026 running June–August 2026, plus One Day Camps during select school-closure days in 2025–2026 and a Winter Camp in late December 2025
Celsius and Beyond has offered science camps since 2007. The program’s mission states that its science camps provide youth in grades 1–9 with an opportunity to learn, grow, and play while exploring scientific concepts and skills, and that its scientist instructors bring their expertise and love of science to create fun, educational camps that foster curiosity and confidence. The mission also states that each camp, regardless of theme, strives to equip campers with the imagination and confidence to think creatively and strategize in their missions while developing critical thinking skills, and that learning to think scientifically means seeking out verifiable information, evaluating evidence, and constructing new beliefs and theories supported by the strongest evidence, with camps aiming to make learning fun and make it stick.
The founder is Auritte Cohen-Ross. The staff list includes Lila Farrington, Ph.D. UC San Francisco; Sedona Ewbank, Ph.D. Stanford University; Jae Seo, M.A. UC Berkeley; Brian Amaro, Ph.D. Stanford University; Kimberly Chacón, Ph.D. UC Davis; Shraddha Tiwari, MFA Pratt Institute; Dorothy Chrisman, University of Oxford; Lena Gold; Kit Schulte; Jazmine Anderson, B.A. UC Berkeley; Faith Lesuer, B.A. Cal Poly; and Gayatri Shet, M.A. Academy of Art University. The information also notes that Auritte spent 12 years in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley and is a cum laude economics graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.
The program describes itself as offering science camps and science workshops for kids and youth with the tagline “Real Science, Serious Fun.” It states that weeklong deep dives distill the greatest hits of college-level science courses into activities designed just for kids, with hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and projects where students work collaboratively to solve problems. New subjects are offered at the afterschool program in September and January, and the First League Robotics (FLL) team starts each year in August and the program is filled within a week.
One testimonial from a parent describes the programs as fantastic in terms of both substance and delivery, with teachers who are high energy, have deep knowledge, and connect with kids to translate complex ideas into hands-on learning projects, and notes that a child remembered extracting DNA from a strawberry and projects from Ballistics Camp. Another testimonial from a parent of a 9-year-old mentions that a dissection camp and a previous surgery camp spurred the child’s interest in anatomy and physiology, and that the child later identified bones and tendons using bone models at an orthopedist’s office. A third testimonial from a parent of a 10-year-old describes Celsius as well organized, very fun and very educational, and notes that the child recalls facts and understands advanced terms and complex topics months or years later and wants to return to learn more. The credentials information notes that Celsius’ team won at the 2016 San Francisco Science Fair and received Gold Level, best Prizes competition.
Last updated June 15, 2026.
• Ages: 6–15 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong deep dives with Summer Camp 2026 running June–August 2026, plus One Day Camps during select school-closure days in 2025–2026 and a Winter Camp in late December 2025
Celsius and Beyond has offered science camps since 2007. The program’s mission states that its science camps provide youth in grades 1–9 with an opportunity to learn, grow, and play while exploring scientific concepts and skills, and that its scientist instructors bring their expertise and love of science to create fun, educational camps that foster curiosity and confidence. The mission also states that each camp, regardless of theme, strives to equip campers with the imagination and confidence to think creatively and strategize in their missions while developing critical thinking skills, and that learning to think scientifically means seeking out verifiable information, evaluating evidence, and constructing new beliefs and theories supported by the strongest evidence, with camps aiming to make learning fun and make it stick.
The founder is Auritte Cohen-Ross. The staff list includes Lila Farrington, Ph.D. UC San Francisco; Sedona Ewbank, Ph.D. Stanford University; Jae Seo, M.A. UC Berkeley; Brian Amaro, Ph.D. Stanford University; Kimberly Chacón, Ph.D. UC Davis; Shraddha Tiwari, MFA Pratt Institute; Dorothy Chrisman, University of Oxford; Lena Gold; Kit Schulte; Jazmine Anderson, B.A. UC Berkeley; Faith Lesuer, B.A. Cal Poly; and Gayatri Shet, M.A. Academy of Art University. The information also notes that Auritte spent 12 years in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley and is a cum laude economics graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.
The program describes itself as offering science camps and science workshops for kids and youth with the tagline “Real Science, Serious Fun.” It states that weeklong deep dives distill the greatest hits of college-level science courses into activities designed just for kids, with hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and projects where students work collaboratively to solve problems. New subjects are offered at the afterschool program in September and January, and the First League Robotics (FLL) team starts each year in August and the program is filled within a week.
One testimonial from a parent describes the programs as fantastic in terms of both substance and delivery, with teachers who are high energy, have deep knowledge, and connect with kids to translate complex ideas into hands-on learning projects, and notes that a child remembered extracting DNA from a strawberry and projects from Ballistics Camp. Another testimonial from a parent of a 9-year-old mentions that a dissection camp and a previous surgery camp spurred the child’s interest in anatomy and physiology, and that the child later identified bones and tendons using bone models at an orthopedist’s office. A third testimonial from a parent of a 10-year-old describes Celsius as well organized, very fun and very educational, and notes that the child recalls facts and understands advanced terms and complex topics months or years later and wants to return to learn more. The credentials information notes that Celsius’ team won at the 2016 San Francisco Science Fair and received Gold Level, best Prizes competition.
Last updated June 15, 2026.
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