Summer Acting Workshop — South Coast Repertory
Two-week open-enrollment acting camp culminating in a family showcase.
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Regional-qualified students perform for adjudication, scholarships, and a week-long festival.
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California Young Playwrights Contest
Winning scripts get a full professional production or staged reading in San Diego.
Camp Cronkite (ASU Summer Journalism Institute)
2-week media camp rotating through writing, interviewing, visual storytelling, and electives.
FACES Summer Medical Academy (Samuel Merritt University)
A two-week, in-person summer program at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland exposing high schoolers (15+) to medicine, nursing, and allied health through clinical skills training, anatomy workshops, and patient simulations, with certifications in Stop the Bleed and opioid overdose intervention.
Immerse Education: Entrepreneurship Summer School – San Francisco
A two-week residential 'Career Insights Pathway' program for students ages 15-18, based at UC Berkeley with excursions across the San Francisco Bay Area, featuring 45 hours of project-based entrepreneurship teaching, weekly 1:1 coaching, industry visits, and a personal project for college/CV applications, in small classes of 7-10 students.