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Kidizens Lego In-Person Summer Camps for the SF Bay Area – 2021 Young Mayors Summer Camps
Would your child like to build and be the Mayor of your own dream LEGO city? Build, Govern, Lead!
Would you like to leverage your child’s love of LEGOs to help them learn critical real-life, 21st century skills and strategies?
Kidizens In-Person Summer Camps kick off on June 7th at a number of SF Bay area locations including Belmont, Los Altos, Los Gatos, San Jose, Mountain View, Campbell, Palo Alto and for those not able to join us in-person this year, we bring an exciting, highly interactive experience Online!
Choose your location below:
NEW: Weeklong age-appropriate Virtual Summer Camps
Young Mayors Online summer camp provides a creative social and learning environment. These moderator-led, highly interactive Zoom sessions will facilitate building, collaborating, online group discussions and fun group activities. Kids will learn about many real-life, city-related topics in the context of a utopian city-building framework, as well as have run role-playing and living in a virtual world. A typical camp meets five times per week.
Join for our virtual (online) camps here:
Highly Immersive, Young Mayors’ In-Person LEGO City Camps
At Kidizens, children’s passion and creativity are nurtured and stoked to help them become thoughtful and responsible citizens and future leaders, one LEGO brick at a time. During our excitement-packed Bay Area LEGO Summer Camps, kids plan and create their own small LEGO civilization, thereby developing real-life skills and strategies.
In a highly collaborative environment that nurtures social and emotional learning, immersive role play, and development of 21st century skills, the campers will:
- Serve as a Co-Mayor for a week
- Create a robust city infrastructure to handle residents’ basic and growing needs
- Manage residents, policies, economy, budget
- Deal with problems and the unexpected (natural disasters, crime, resources, budget crises) in an age-appropriate manner
- Establish laws and justice systems – fun court cases bring many concepts to life
- Develop public policy platform and campaign against an opponent
In our fast-paced, highly creative and dynamic environment, students are positively guided. While ‘LEGOing’ away to their heart’s content, they:
- Role play as a responsible mayor as well as wear other hats
- Cultivate confidence, leadership and public speaking skills
- Develop critical thinking and analytical skills
- Think out of the box, creatively and constantly on their feet
- Problem-solve and make decisions in a fast changing environment
- Work in teams, collaborate and develop interpersonal and social skills
Highlights:
Covid Compliance for In-Person Camps
In order to keep all of our staff and camp participants as safe as possible, we will be conducting our in-person camps as outdoor/indoor camps. Participants will build their cities primarily outdoors, just outside of the Kidizens facility in the courtyard space available to us. In compliance with county health guidance our in-person camps will continue to be conducted with the utmost safety and wellbeing of our Kidizens and the greater community in mind. We will always follow all advised precautions and due diligence to maintain a healthy and safe camp environment.
1-week in-person camps suitable for grades 1-6
Grades K-3 and 3-6 are grouped separately and partnered age-appropriately, with different groups building their respective cities. The older kids are presented with age-appropriate, complex challenges and problem solving opportunities.
2-week in-person camps for grades 1-3 and 3-6! (Brand new this summer!)
A highly immersive and in-depth experience which allows kids to solve many complex challenges and dig deeper for longer-term and sustainable city solutions. The older kids develop an entire mayoral campaign towards the election for a 2nd term against a real opponent, who challenges the policies and long-term viability of their city. The younger kids go on a special mission and evolve their city!
A new focus on role-play
Children will have an opportunity to choose from multiple city roles, undergo job training, wear the ‘required job hat’ (and appropriate associated accessories) and role play during a portion of the week to perform key tasks for their selected job.
Our Parents Love Us! Parent Testimonials
Bay Area LEGO and Leadership Summer Camps
We have been running our Bay Area summer camps successfully over the past 8 years in the SF Bay area. Our increasingly popular summer camps receive tremendous parent endorsements every year with glowing reviews. Many kids return for a 2nd and a 3rd year to our summer camps in Bay Area. For kids who have experienced the thrill of a serving as mayors in past summers, we are constantly adding many new themes and elements to make the camps even more exciting and super fun. Pl stay tuned for more exciting announcements for this summer’s updated program, but reserve your spot now, as our summer camps do get filled up!
A few things to note: Cancellation Policy
*All in-person camps run Monday-Friday, 9am to 3pm
*Aftercare provided until 5pm at additional cost
*Please bring easy-to-carry, nut-free lunch
*Please make sure to bring and wear a mask or other face covering*Please note that we will be utilizing the outdoor space as much as possible for building time and meetings to strike a good balance between indoor and outdoor activities.
Testimonials
Our Parents Love Us!
Hiring Camp Counselors, Camp Assistants and looking for High School Volunteers
Our summer camps offer a fun educational summer experience for our counselors as well as volunteering and internship opportunities for college students and high-schoolers. Please check out our job postings for details on all open positions.
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions pertaining to any of the summer camps.