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Summer Days offers academic courses, hands-on camps, and creative enrichment that include robotics, coding, art, public speaking, creative writing, digital storytelling, improv, and sports. Students can build and program robots in the Robotics Lab, learn to code in Python, explore artificial intelligence, and use a Maker Lab with woodworking, design, and engineering tools. The program also includes all-day camps with rotating enrichment, LEGO STEAM, Intro to Sports and team games, money management and investing courses, Bell Prep for incoming freshmen, sports camps, and the option to earn UC-approved high school credit through full-semester courses such as Geometry, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
• Schedule: Summer 2026 program dates run June 15–July 23, 2026, with flexible options from full-day camps to single-period enrichment for 1 to 6 weeks.
• Price: Affordable pricing makes it accessible for more families.
Youth in grades 1–5 attend from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, with guidelines that students be dropped off no earlier than 15 minutes before their first period and picked up no later than 15 minutes after their last period. The program offers multiple start dates throughout the summer and includes electives such as Money Management & Investing, Robotics, AI, Computer Science, as well as Speech and Debate, Math from Pre-algebra to Algebra 2, Guitar, Visual & Performing Arts, Humanities courses in Writing and Grammar and English, and sports options including Baseball, Soccer, Track, and Ultimate Frisbee.
Each course is taught by educators described as passionate and bringing real-world experience and energy to the classroom. Bellarmine College Preparatory, which runs Summer Days, began in 1851 as Santa Clara College, moved to its current campus in 1925, and became Bellarmine College Preparatory in 1928 as the first Jesuit high school in California and the second Jesuit high school west of the Mississippi. Its mission states that it is a Catholic school in the tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola, dedicated to forming “men for and with others.”
Bellarmine is ranked among the top 10% of college prep schools in California and among the top 5% of high schools for athletes in California. Its robotics team is a five-time world champion, its Speech & Debate team is nationally ranked #1 for three consecutive years with a fourth consecutive state title and fifth consecutive national title, and Bellarmine Theatre Arts has received multiple award nominations. The school offers elite athletics with 36 teams across 15 sports supported by a sports medicine team and state-of-the-art facilities, and more than 100 co-curricular activities including award-winning Robotics, Theatre, and Speech & Debate.
The BUILD program connected to Bellarmine is a fully scholarship-based summer and after-school initiative for high-achieving, low-income 6th and 7th grade boys from Silicon Valley who aspire to be the first in their families to go to college, and it is held on the same campus as Summer Days. Bellarmine’s students also support local organizations through efforts such as the Winter Warmth Drive and Spring Food Drive, required service hours, and partnerships with over 100 schools and agencies including Bachrodt Elementary, HOPE Services, Sacred Heart Community Service, and Second Harvest Food Bank, along with domestic and international service immersions.
Parents from Summer Days 2025 report that they chose Bellarmine over another local high school based on the quality, flexibility, and clarity of the Summer Days schedule, and that Bell Prep gave an incoming freshman time to learn practical skills on his Surface laptop such as creating documents, calendar invites, and emails. Other parents note that the 8th grade English program was rigorous for summer and improved their child’s reading and writing confidence, that an Algebra 1 class helped a student review and solidify math concepts, and that twins came home with stories from Baker Lab where hands-on science and visits to the garden and animals were part of their day.
Last updated March 19, 2026.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
• Schedule: Summer 2026 program dates run June 15–July 23, 2026, with flexible options from full-day camps to single-period enrichment for 1 to 6 weeks.
• Price: Affordable pricing makes it accessible for more families.
Youth in grades 1–5 attend from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, with guidelines that students be dropped off no earlier than 15 minutes before their first period and picked up no later than 15 minutes after their last period. The program offers multiple start dates throughout the summer and includes electives such as Money Management & Investing, Robotics, AI, Computer Science, as well as Speech and Debate, Math from Pre-algebra to Algebra 2, Guitar, Visual & Performing Arts, Humanities courses in Writing and Grammar and English, and sports options including Baseball, Soccer, Track, and Ultimate Frisbee.
Each course is taught by educators described as passionate and bringing real-world experience and energy to the classroom. Bellarmine College Preparatory, which runs Summer Days, began in 1851 as Santa Clara College, moved to its current campus in 1925, and became Bellarmine College Preparatory in 1928 as the first Jesuit high school in California and the second Jesuit high school west of the Mississippi. Its mission states that it is a Catholic school in the tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola, dedicated to forming “men for and with others.”
Bellarmine is ranked among the top 10% of college prep schools in California and among the top 5% of high schools for athletes in California. Its robotics team is a five-time world champion, its Speech & Debate team is nationally ranked #1 for three consecutive years with a fourth consecutive state title and fifth consecutive national title, and Bellarmine Theatre Arts has received multiple award nominations. The school offers elite athletics with 36 teams across 15 sports supported by a sports medicine team and state-of-the-art facilities, and more than 100 co-curricular activities including award-winning Robotics, Theatre, and Speech & Debate.
The BUILD program connected to Bellarmine is a fully scholarship-based summer and after-school initiative for high-achieving, low-income 6th and 7th grade boys from Silicon Valley who aspire to be the first in their families to go to college, and it is held on the same campus as Summer Days. Bellarmine’s students also support local organizations through efforts such as the Winter Warmth Drive and Spring Food Drive, required service hours, and partnerships with over 100 schools and agencies including Bachrodt Elementary, HOPE Services, Sacred Heart Community Service, and Second Harvest Food Bank, along with domestic and international service immersions.
Parents from Summer Days 2025 report that they chose Bellarmine over another local high school based on the quality, flexibility, and clarity of the Summer Days schedule, and that Bell Prep gave an incoming freshman time to learn practical skills on his Surface laptop such as creating documents, calendar invites, and emails. Other parents note that the 8th grade English program was rigorous for summer and improved their child’s reading and writing confidence, that an Algebra 1 class helped a student review and solidify math concepts, and that twins came home with stories from Baker Lab where hands-on science and visits to the garden and animals were part of their day.
Last updated March 19, 2026.
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