Local School Resources, Santa Clara County (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Cupertino, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara)
This is the list of Exhibitors from Sunnyvale Moms Group’s School Resource Fair. Check it out if you are searching for camps, preschools, private schools, after-school activities or child development specialists in Santa Clara County. Here are the notes which I collected from the exhibitors for the event.
Camps
Adventures in Writing Camp
Adventures In Writing has a camp environment designed to help children fall in love with writing. The camp is taught by credentialed teachers and supported by creative college students. Every camper becomes a published author. Writing enrichment that feels like summer "camp" not summer "school."
Adventures in Writing Camp
Bay Area Chess Camp
Bay Area Chess operates summer camps for kids who love or have an interest in learning to play chess. They will also have a board game camp in addition to chess camps. Their camps are in Palo Alto and in San Jose. Their activities are good for kids from kindergarten through high school.
Bay Area Chess Camp
Camp Captivate
Camp Captivate is a summer S.T.E.A.M. camp program serving campers ages 5 to 13. Hands-on labs are integrated with fine-art projects for a truly exceptional camp. They are located in Santa Clara and San Jose. They provided STEAM camps: Lil Engineer, Lil Botanist, Lil Doctor, Lil Zoologist, Jr Rockhound - Crystals, Gems, and Jewelry, Jr Biologist, Jr Physicist -Optical Science Meets Art, Jr. Polymer Chemist -It’s Slime Time, Jr. Polymer Chemist - It’s Slime Time, Pro Criminologist, Pro Geneticist, Pro Marine Biologist, Pro Structural Engineer. They also offer School Break Camps in addition to summer camps.
Camp Captivate
Club SciKidz
Club SciKidz of Silicon Valley offers premier STEM education programs and specializes in quality science, technology, and enrichment activities for children ages 4 to 13. They have multiple camp locations in Cupertino, Mountain View, and Santa Clara. Club SciKidz also offers min-STEM camps, Robust After-School programs, In-School Field Trips, and Science. Assemblies. In 2024 the featured camps are Advanced Robotics, Beginning Minecraft, Emergency Vet, Pokémon Professor, Medical School, Junior Robot Engineer, Marvel Movie Maker, Little and Junior Scientist, and more.
Club SciKidz
Code For Fun
Code For Fun offers a variety of robotics and technology camps for ages 5 to 15 with fun hardware like Bee-bots, Dash, Sphero, and Micro-Bit. Students will learn game making, app development, web development as well as coding in most popular languages such as Scratch and Python. They welcome beginners and advanced students alike. Location: Sunnyvale.
Code For Fun
Euroskill Water Polo and Swimming
Euroskill Water Polo and Swimming introduces kids to sport aquatics such as non-competitive and competitive swimming and water polo (including preparing teams for Junior Olympics). They are offering summer camps. They are training in Sunnyvale (Fremont High School and Columbia Middle School) and in Cupertino (Homestead High School). They teach kids from the age of 6 to 19.
Euroskill Water Polo and Swimming
Golden Eagle Camp
Golden Eagle Summer Sports Camp is serving the Los Altos, Cupertino, and San Jose communities giving children a chance to explore all kinds of activities and games they may have never thought to participate in. It is not a specialty camp where they will spend several hours at a time mastering a single sport but rather an opportunity for exploration and fun with friends. The camp day is organized into 6-7 periods and lunch. Campers are divided into grade-based groups K–2nd, 3rd–4th, 5th–8th with approximately a 10:1 camper/counselor ratio. Each age group is offered 2–3 activities to choose from for each period, so throughout the day, they will have a lot of choice and variety.
Golden Eagle Camp
Call of the Wild Camps By Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC
Wild Camps are outdoor nature camps for kids ages 5-10, where kids connect with nature, hike, read, write, create art, explore, and play. Wild Camp gives a discount when siblings are registered.
Wild Camps By Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC
Rancho Rinconada Summer Camp
Rancho Rinconada Summer Camp accepts kids as young as 4 1/2 years of age up to 10 years of age. They provide the opportunity for campers to explore a variety of educational and creative activities. Summer Camp provides a main multi-purpose room, picnic area, playground, activity field, and a heated swimming pool all in one location. Summer Camp incorporates free swim time for two hours, five days a week, a trip to Sterling Barnhart Park every Friday for two hours along with activities such as (1) in indoor and outdoor play, (2) arts and crafts, (3) science, and more. They are located in Cupertino
Rancho Rinconada Summer Camp
Run For Fun Camp
Run for Fun provides day and overnight camps. Overnight Camps encourage a love for sports, nature, and creativity. Run For Fun Camp fosters great friendships built on play, imagination, and collaboration. Day and Overnight Camps offer children activities and an opportunity to challenge themselves! Run for Fun camps are offering 4 weeks of Day Camp in June in Palo Alto and 4 weeks of overnight camp in July on Pinecrest Lake.
Run For Fun Camp
Snapology
Snapology offers S.T.E.A.M. camps. Children will have a blast exploring themes like Minecraft, Star Wars®, and Superheroes while learning all about Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. They use LEGO® bricks, technology, and other familiar toys to make STEAM concepts accessible to all learners. Snapology offers half-day and full-day camps at multiple locations. Kids will have a blast making new friends and tackling S.T.E.A.M. projects with Snapology all summer long.
Snapology
Spartans Sport Camp
Spartans Sports Camp offers basketball, track and field, baseball, volleyball, flag football, cheerleading, digital art and photography, wacky science, and more in their dedicated camps for kids from 1st to 9th grades. Their location is in Mountain View. All of their camps offer on-site recreational swimming.
Spartans Sport Camp
Steve and Kate Camp
Steve and Kate Camp provides a variety of activities including water play, sewing, coding, maker crafts, baking, sports, robotics, tinker lab, stage, stop motion, and more! Families can buy any number of days, to use at any time–no weekly reservations required. Or, buy a Summer Pass, which covers the whole season. Ages: 4 to 12 | Lunch, snacks & all hours (8am–6pm) included.
Steve and Kate Camp
Tessellations Camps
Tessellations summer camps are for kindergarten through eighth-grade students. Their summer program offers day camp, day trip, and workshop opportunities for students to explore areas of interest, build friendships, develop 21st-century skills, and have fun! Their camps include Sports Galore, Dungeons and Dragons, Game Fest, Museum Explores, San Francisco Adventures, Budding Entrepreneurs and more. For rising 8th through 10th grade students, their CIT (Counselor in Training) program is geared toward developing counseling, instructional, and leadership skills.
Tessellations Camps
Tiny Treks Summer Camp
Tiny Treks Summer Camps are a wonderful way to explore with your child and an amazing naturalist educator. Their camps have themes each day and they offer music, movement, hiking and exploration, storytime, games, and arts and crafts in each camp session. Summer camps are also a great way to have a trial of what Tiny Trek school year classes will offer your family. These summer camps are for kids 12 months and up to 6 years old.
Tiny Treks Summer Camp
Tutu School Camp
During the day campers will explore the enchanted and enriching world of ballet at Tutu School. Each camp session focuses on a different ballet story from the classical repertoire, and favorites include Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Firebird, and Cinderella. Campers do not need to have prior ballet experience to participate, but they should be prepared for a lot of leaping, twirling, and imaginative adventures!
Tutu School Camp
Khan Lab School Camps
Khan Lab School offers two summer programs for Rising Kindergarten through 6th grade and for Rising 7th grade through 12 grade.
The Lower School (Rising Kindergarten-6th grade) summer program offers morning and afternoon blocks, with the option to sign up for either or both. Through their summer enrichment classes kids can explore their interests and passions.
The Upper School (Rising 7th-12th grade) summer program offers students cutting-edge technology in their innovation hub. Students can apply geometry to fields like architecture and coding, learn traditional and digital animation techniques, and more.
Khan Lab School Camps
After School Activities
Connecr&Play! Caregiver + Tot Playgroups
Connect&Play! Caregiver + Tot Playgroups are taught by speech-language pathologist, Ashlee Welday. These are weekly playgroups that give parents ideas of ways they can create language, social, and problem-solving opportunities throughout their day and give their children a jump start on development. These playgroups are for children ages 18-36 months, located in Mountain View (El Camino Real and Shoreline).
Connecr&Play! Caregiver + Tot Playgroups
Bay Area Chess
Bay Area Chess operates chess clubs, chess classes, tournaments, and championships for kids who love or have an interest in learning to play chess. Their clubs are in Santa Clara, Cupertino, Palo Alto, and San Jose. Their activities are good for kids from kindergarten through high school.
Bay Area Chess
California Conservatory of Music
California Conservatory of Music provides private one-on-one guitar, piano, violin, and voice lessons for students of all ages and levels. Every student can schedule one free 15-minute introductory lesson before signing up for the weekly lessons.
California Conservatory of Music
Code For Fun
Code For Fun provides after-school coding programs for kids and teens. Their lessons develop critical STEM skills taught through our proprietary curricula with engaging and effective hands-on projects using project-based and inquiry-based learning. Topics offered include Python, Data Detectives, Roblox, Game Design, Scratch, HTML, and much more.
Code For Fun
Daruma Dojo
Daruma Dojo offers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo programs for kids and adults in Sunnyvale. Kids as young as 4 years old can start classes at Daruma Dojo. Daruma Dojo also provides Women's Self-Defense Classes
Daruma Dojo
Dasalla’s Martial Arts
Dasalla's Martial Arts is a karate school. They offer diverse programs for various age groups, including our "Tiny Champs" class for 5 to 6-year-olds, "Champs in Training" for 7 to 11-year-olds, and sessions for teens and adults aged 12 and up. They offer classes at least twice a week. They recently introduced sparring classes. Dasalla's Martial Arts prioritizes life skills such as discipline, determination, and dedication. They are located in Sunnyvale
Dasalla’s Martial Arts
Euroskill Water Polo and Swimming
Euroskill Water Polo and Swimming introduces kids to sport aquatics such as non-competitive and competitive swimming and water polo (including preparing teams for Junior Olympics). They provide activities throughout the year. They are training in Sunnyvale (Fremont High School and Columbia Middle School) and in Cupertino (Homestead High School). They teach kids from the age of 6 to 19.
Euroskill Water Polo and Swimming
Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC
Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC provides ESL tutoring, academic tutoring in English and math, and enrichment in multiple subjects
Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC
Rancho Rinconada
Rancho Rinconada offers swimming lessons, a swim team, and pre-comp swimming during the year. They are located in Cupertino.
Rancho Rinconada
Swoon Learning
Swoon Learning offers ChessMath and scratch coding classes. ChessMath is an online or onsite group activity for grades 1-6 that focuses on the comprehension and understanding of mathematics, taught through the medium of chess by expert academic coaches over 6 weeks (12 hours total). Their enrichment activities allow students to pursue interests and nurture talents beyond traditional academics.
Swoon Learning
Tiny Treks
Tiny Treks Parent/Child outdoor program explores our local open spaces, parks, lakes, badlands, and more - rain or shine. The South Bay region is ideal for the following cities: San Jose, South San Jose, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Fremont, Willow Glen, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy. Tiny Treks Parent/Child classes are designed for children aged 12 months up to 7 years old.
Tiny Treks
Tutu School
Tutu school offers ballet classes for kids 18 months to 8 years old and registration is always ongoing through the year. Our group gets 50% off the first month of classes at Tutu School Sunnyvale.
Tutu School
Preschools
Appleseed Montessori
Appleseed Montessori is a Montessori-inspired hands-on learning school. It has a diverse curriculum including sensorial, language, math, practical life, science, geography, music movement, and arts & crafts. Special events throughout the year (field trips, culture events, a harvest parade, holiday celebrations, on-site special activities, family gathering parties and more.) Appleseed serves kids from 18 months old to 6 years old. Bilingual program option (Mandarin/English) for ages 2-and-a-half to 6.
Appleseed Montessori
Country Day Little School
Country Day Little School is a play-based school in Palo Alto. Kids’ learning takes place through play, activity, and imitation, rather than through the introduction of academic subjects. Their playthings are made of natural materials and are simple enough that the child's imagination is awakened by using them in many different ways. The children are encouraged to be kind to one another. Cooperation and sharing are encouraged over competition. The atmosphere Country Day Little School strives for is supportive, warm, non-threatening, and non-competitive, yet with sufficient structure to give children the security and boundaries they need and want at this age.
Country Day Little School
Cupertino Co-op Nursery School
Cupertino Co-op Nursery School believes in fostering an environment that honors the uniqueness of each child and supports parent involvement and education in our early childhood setting. Their philosophy is rooted in the following principles: learning through play, parent involvement, parent education, collaborative learning, holistic development, respect for diversity, continual growth, and adaptation. They offer programs for ages 2-5.
Cupertino Co-op Nursery School
Learn and Play Montessori Schools
Learn and Play Montessori Schools are located in Sunnyvale and Milpitas. They provide full-day, extended-day, and half-day programs.
Learn and Play Montessori Schools
Mountain View Parent Nursery School
Mountain View Parent Nursery School is a play-based preschool. Parents participate at the school to help children discover the joy of learning and playing with others
Mountain View Parent Nursery School
Palo Alto Friends Nursery School
Palo Alto Friends Nursery School is a non-profit, parent-cooperative preschool. Friends is a play-based school focused on cultivating a lifelong love and passion for learning in each child. They spend a lot of time outdoors in their beautiful play spaces. They currently serve ages 3 -5 and will be starting their new 2-year-old program soon!
Palo Alto Friends Nursery School
PELC (Presbyterian Early Learning Center)
PELC is a play-based preschool that believes in nourishing a child’s physical, social, intellectual, and emotional growth. They serve families with children 5 months of age through 6 years old. They have full-time and part-time programs plus TK.
PELC (Presbyterian Early Learning Center)
Salsbury Family Childcare
At The Salsbury Family Childcare, children are provided the opportunity to develop cognitively, emotionally, socially, and physically. They believe that children learn experientially through exploration and play. They value an open, supportive relationship between families, children, and teachers. They provide full-time and part-time options.
Salsbury Family Childcare
St. Timothy’s Preschool
St. Timothy’s is a small, diverse, community-based preschool. Although they are housed on a church campus, this is a non-religious program. They are a play-based emergent curriculum program that encourages personal autonomy and outside-the-box exploration. Their mixed-age classroom supports peer learning and organic mentoring, helping build children’s social skills, empathy, and confidence. Children are invited to choose what they will explore in either the indoor or outdoor classroom. Their daily activities are based on the children’s interests and developmental needs. They accept children starting at age 2 years, 9 months up to 5 years.
St. Timothy’s Preschool
Daycares (infants/toddlers)
Learn and Play Montessori
Learn and Play Montessori School has toddler programs.
Learn and Play Montessori
Private Schools
Khan Lab School
Khan Lab School is a private, non-profit independent lab school, located in Mountain View and Palo Alto. Their philosophy is based on a mastery-based educational approach. They offer elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Khan Lab School
St. Joseph School Mountain View
St. Joseph School Mountain View focuses on STEM education as well as the whole-child approach to ensure that students have access to cocurriculares such as Music, Art, and Physical Education every week. Their program serves students from TK-8th grade
St. Joseph School Mountain View
Tessellations
Tessellations, a Pre-K to 12th Grade, independent, progressive school tailored for gifted students, was created in 2020 by a group of like-minded families and educators dedicated to serving the needs of the whole child. Tessellations provides challenging experiential education that recognizes and nurtures the individual strengths of gifted learners, empowering them to confidently express who they are and pursue a meaningful life. High School will open in Fall 2024, starting with 9th grade.
Tessellations
Specialists
Ashlee Welday, speech-language pathologist
Ashlee Welday's speech and language clinic is offering therapeutic services to school-age children and young adults. Also, neurodiversity-affirming social communication therapy.
Ashlee Welday, speech-language pathologist
Joy and Laughter Developmental Therapy
Joy and Laughter Developmental Therapy is a pediatric clinic that offers speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and feeding therapy.
Joy and Laughter Developmental Therapy
Swoon Learning
Swoon Learning offers personalized academic coaching to support each student's academic journey, emphasizing success and skill-building. Enrichment Activities allow students to pursue interests and nurture talents beyond traditional academics.
Swoon Learning