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Terrific Scientific offers hands-on summer camps and after school classes where students do experiments, team activities, and projects in art, science, engineering, and technology. Campers and students design and innovate, build and program robots, learn new technologies, and take part in daily science demonstrations during courtyard events. The program also includes outside game time, inside creative projects, reading time, and an optional child-appropriate movie during aftercare.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs June 15–July 24, 2026, Monday–Friday, with arrival from 8:30–8:50am, camp from 9:00am–3:30pm, and pick-up from 3:30–3:45pm; aftercare is available Monday–Friday from 3:30–5:30pm with advance registration.
• Price: Aftercare daily fee of $20 is charged for remaining campers and is payable the same day; late fees are $1.00 per minute past 5:30pm.
Terrific Scientific offers inquiry-based after school classes and camps in topics such as Engineering, Robotics, Chemistry, Rocketry, Environmental Science, Veterinary medicine, Forensics, Video game creation, Food science, Technology, Paleontology, Biology, Astronomy, Oceanography, Medicine, and Special Effects. Summer STEAM camps include more than 60 hands-on camps in art, science, engineering, and technology for rising K–7th graders, along with many themed camps for students in Kindergarten–8th grade, and use Tribes Activities as an anti-bullying program to help children learn about each other and make new friends. The summer camps have a ratio of 1–9 students per teacher, and Terrific Scientific provides all supplies for classes and camps, with an optional t-shirt available for purchase.
Terrific Scientific uses discovery-based and inquiry-based learning and describes itself as a hands-on, minds-on, challenging STEAM program for girls and boys that lays the foundation for innovative minds, problem solvers, and design thinkers of the future through science, technology, engineering, art, and math. The program states that each and every child is a scientist and that its goal is to make them a better scientist, and it describes its environment as safe and positive, where students can experiment, problem solve, build scientific skills, and delve into the mysteries of science. It serves youth and teens and is designed to inspire future innovators, with programs that are described as “kid-tested” to be fun, full of scientific concepts, and to have a track record of being successful.
Terrific Scientific is locally owned and reports over 25 years of teaching experience, curriculum development, and running after school programs and camps, and it currently serves the Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito, Cold Spring, and Carpinteria school districts, as well as the communities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito, and Carpinteria. The team includes professionals and college counselors from the fields of education, engineering, science, psychology, art, and technology, and each instructor is required to receive full background checks and certifications, including fingerprinting and clearance through the CA Department of Justice. The program uses an online ACTIVE registration system that allows families to manage authorized pickups, and it states that all persons authorized to pick up a child must be listed in the ACTIVE account and that children will not be released without the name.
Terrific Scientific offers a Parent/Child “Campus Walk About” on Tuesdays at 3:30pm. The daily camp schedule includes 8:30–8:55am courtyard events with a science demonstration and games, followed by specific camp activities starting at 9:00am, including Tribes Activity, project time, outdoor snack and bathroom breaks, a 60-minute lunch and outdoor play period, afternoon camp activities, and 3:30–3:45pm camper pick-up in the courtyard. Aftercare must be registered for in advance, but in an unanticipated situation a camper can enroll for one day by emailing or talking with the Director, and aftercare includes optional child-appropriate movies. The program states that it picks up Kindergarten students from their classrooms for after school classes and asks parents to park and walk children to check-in tables for drop-off and pick-up, with children checked out with their counselor for safety. Families are asked to keep children home if they show signs of sickness or have been exposed to Covid or flu, to do a COVID test, and to inform the camp if the child tests positive.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
• Ages: 5–15 years old
• Schedule: Summer camp runs June 15–July 24, 2026, Monday–Friday, with arrival from 8:30–8:50am, camp from 9:00am–3:30pm, and pick-up from 3:30–3:45pm; aftercare is available Monday–Friday from 3:30–5:30pm with advance registration.
• Price: Aftercare daily fee of $20 is charged for remaining campers and is payable the same day; late fees are $1.00 per minute past 5:30pm.
Terrific Scientific offers inquiry-based after school classes and camps in topics such as Engineering, Robotics, Chemistry, Rocketry, Environmental Science, Veterinary medicine, Forensics, Video game creation, Food science, Technology, Paleontology, Biology, Astronomy, Oceanography, Medicine, and Special Effects. Summer STEAM camps include more than 60 hands-on camps in art, science, engineering, and technology for rising K–7th graders, along with many themed camps for students in Kindergarten–8th grade, and use Tribes Activities as an anti-bullying program to help children learn about each other and make new friends. The summer camps have a ratio of 1–9 students per teacher, and Terrific Scientific provides all supplies for classes and camps, with an optional t-shirt available for purchase.
Terrific Scientific uses discovery-based and inquiry-based learning and describes itself as a hands-on, minds-on, challenging STEAM program for girls and boys that lays the foundation for innovative minds, problem solvers, and design thinkers of the future through science, technology, engineering, art, and math. The program states that each and every child is a scientist and that its goal is to make them a better scientist, and it describes its environment as safe and positive, where students can experiment, problem solve, build scientific skills, and delve into the mysteries of science. It serves youth and teens and is designed to inspire future innovators, with programs that are described as “kid-tested” to be fun, full of scientific concepts, and to have a track record of being successful.
Terrific Scientific is locally owned and reports over 25 years of teaching experience, curriculum development, and running after school programs and camps, and it currently serves the Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito, Cold Spring, and Carpinteria school districts, as well as the communities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito, and Carpinteria. The team includes professionals and college counselors from the fields of education, engineering, science, psychology, art, and technology, and each instructor is required to receive full background checks and certifications, including fingerprinting and clearance through the CA Department of Justice. The program uses an online ACTIVE registration system that allows families to manage authorized pickups, and it states that all persons authorized to pick up a child must be listed in the ACTIVE account and that children will not be released without the name.
Terrific Scientific offers a Parent/Child “Campus Walk About” on Tuesdays at 3:30pm. The daily camp schedule includes 8:30–8:55am courtyard events with a science demonstration and games, followed by specific camp activities starting at 9:00am, including Tribes Activity, project time, outdoor snack and bathroom breaks, a 60-minute lunch and outdoor play period, afternoon camp activities, and 3:30–3:45pm camper pick-up in the courtyard. Aftercare must be registered for in advance, but in an unanticipated situation a camper can enroll for one day by emailing or talking with the Director, and aftercare includes optional child-appropriate movies. The program states that it picks up Kindergarten students from their classrooms for after school classes and asks parents to park and walk children to check-in tables for drop-off and pick-up, with children checked out with their counselor for safety. Families are asked to keep children home if they show signs of sickness or have been exposed to Covid or flu, to do a COVID test, and to inform the camp if the child tests positive.
Last updated June 14, 2026.
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