Specialty Summer Camps in Berkeley.
40 specialty camps in Berkeley. Median week: $395; range $230–$625.
Specialty camps — the long tail in Berkeley that don't fit the traditional / STEM / sports / arts buckets — cover everything from culinary to skateboarding to filmmaking to debate. They tend to be smaller, more expensive per week, and more variable in quality.
Top 20 camps
- Berkeley Day Camp Counselor-in-Training · Ages 13–15 · $200/week
- Berkeley Summer Camps - Skate Camp Counselor-in-Training · Ages 13–17 · $100/week
- Summer Achievers · Ages 11–14
- Leaders in Training (LIT) · Various · Ages 14–17
- Counselor In Training Summer Program (CIT) + Swim Session 1 - BUSHROD · Bushrod · Ages 13–15 · $50/week
- iD Tech Camps · $1000/week
- National Academy of Athletics
- Enterprise for Youth - Paid Internships · San Francisco · Ages 16–18
- YMCA of Silicon Valley Teen · East Valley Family YMCA · Ages 12–15 · $297/week
- YMCA of Silicon Valley Teen · Hoover Middle School · Ages 12–15 · $410/week
- YMCA of Silicon Valley Teen · West Valley Elementary · Ages 12–15 · $348/week
- YMCA of Silicon Valley Teen Specialized · West Valley Elementary · Ages 12–15 · $581/week
- Galileo - Twin Peaks/Noe Valley - CITs · Noe Valley · Ages 13–16 · $440/week
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
↘ What to look for
The smaller the niche, the more the instructor matters — ask who's running it and what they do the other 50 weeks of the year. Watch for camps that brand themselves around a hot topic (coding, podcasting, robotics) but staff with general-purpose summer counselors. The right specialty week leaves the kid with a real artifact (a film, a recipe book, a podcast episode) — not a participation certificate.