Camp Brainy Bunch

Camp Brainy Bunch offers weekly themes where campers take on roles such as young doctors, lawyers, writers, engineers, detectives, inventors, and explorers. Each week, campers participate in hands-on, engaging activities that foster design thinking, communication, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and multiple perspectives, organized around themes that link academic learning to real life. Camps are kept small so that kids can build relationships with the adults and with their camp peers, and each week is different so many campers attend for multiple weeks.

• Ages: 6–11 years old
• Schedule: Camps are offered daily from 9am to 3pm, with extended care options from 8am to 5:30pm
• Price: 1 week: $595 per week; 2 weeks: $575 per week (code 2024CBBT2); 3 weeks: $560 per week (code 2024CBBT3); 4 weeks: $535 per week (code 2024CBBT4); 5 weeks: $535 per week (code 2024CBBT5); All Summer Pass: $450 per week; extended care 8am–4pm: $110; extended care 8am–5:30pm: $185 for the week of July 1st and $100 for other weeks; $25 off extended care when registering for 2 or more sessions; multiple camp discounts are per family and the All Summer Pass is per child

Camp Brainy Bunch is part of the Education Inc. family of academic summer programs and uses a single-subject immersive learning model adapted from Education Unlimited programs for middle and high school students to be age-appropriate for 1st–6th grade campers. The program offers Bay Area day camps at seven sites for campers entering grades 1–6 and includes extended care from 8–9am and 3–5:30pm daily, as well as discounts for siblings and multi-week registrations.

Camp Brainy Bunch has close to 30 years of experience running middle and high school programs and launched its elementary-age programs as DaVinci Day Camps in 2012, rebranding this division as Camp Brainy Bunch in 2013 with the goal to “Make Learning Awesome” for elementary-age children around the San Francisco Bay Area. The mission of Camp Brainy Bunch is to combine the learning focus of school with the fun of camp, based on the belief that learning can be fun and should be fun during the summer.

The Walnut Creek camp director, Jose Cabeza, has been with Camp Brainy Bunch since 2016 and is a longtime elementary school teacher with extensive experience in teaching and child development. Jose is pursuing a Master’s degree in Education, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from Saint Mary’s College of California, teaches physical education at Pine View Elementary School during the school year, and has worked as a paraprofessional educator, ABA therapist for kids with autism, and as a soccer coach and sports director. Camp Brainy Bunch teachers are educators with years of experience working with young learners, are highly trained and well educated, work in education during the school year, and are supported by teaching assistants and counselors recruited from top universities throughout the United States.

Last updated March 16, 2026.