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Exclusive Coding Bootcamp Program for Teens at UC Berkeley
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Course Description
This program is a jam-packed week for middle school students interested in being introduced to the coding and programming fields with real hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of the topics. Our middle school program combines academic courses, interactive labs, and recreational activities to give middle school students a supportive, fun, and enriching summer experience. During this program students will design, build, and program a self-driving car with sensors that will follow a painted line. At the end of the program students will race their cars against each other.
Location
The University of California, Berkeley, is ranked as one of the top public universities in the world. Its faculty has garnered over 70 Nobel Prizes and 14 Pulitzers. Its excellence in academics, alongside its abundant recreation opportunities and prized location in the San Francisco Bay Area, affords the ideal program experience for Summer Springboard students.
What's Included
Residential Students:
-Includes: all meals, lodging, excursions, academic course, weekend excursions Excludes: optional airport pickup and drop off service (available for an additional fee)
Commuter Students:
-Includes: lunch, academic course, excursions, programming from 9am to 5pm, Monday-Friday Excludes: lodging, breakfast, dinner, weekend excursions
Extended Commuter Students:
-Includes: lunch, dinner, excursions, academic course, programming from 9am to 8pm, weekend excursions
-Excludes: lodging, breakfast
Starting From
$2,098.00
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Since we are based in Berkeley, San Francisco and Silicon Valley are also at our doorstep. We will explore the world-class resources of the entire region to expose you to one of the most innovative and exciting areas in the entire world. Additionally, we’ll enjoy the fun attractions in the vicinity. All excursions are fully supervised by Summer Springboard staff. Students may visit Stantec, one of the world’s top-tier design engineering firms. At Mission Bay, Stantec is helping the University of California, San Francisco transform cancer care. In Golden Gate Park, they partnered to design the California Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s greenest museums.
Berkeley, California
- As is true in most college towns, UC Berkeley is the community's arts and culture center. During your free time, you'll have time to explore the area around downtown Berkeley. Enjoy locally-sourced inspiration wherever you turn: scenic parks, famous stages, and renowned restaurants.
San Francisco & Golden Gate Bridge
- What better way to explore a city than a scavenger hunt around San Francisco. As students travel through the city, they are tasked to take photos and some famous landmarks: Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, Union Square, Ghirardelli Square, and a cable car!
Track-Specific Excursions
- In order to take full advantage of everything the Bay Area offers, each academic program may also take subject matter specific excursions to help round out the student experience. Previous visits have included: Google, Facebook, Bloomberg TV, San Francisco Chronicle, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, and more.
California's Great America
California's Great America is a 100-acre amusement park located in Santa Clara. The park has appeared in 1994 films Beverly Hills Cop III and Getting Even with Dad. One of its most notable attractions, Gold Striker, has been featured as a top-ranked wooden roller coaster in Amusement Today's annual Golden Ticket Awards publication
Activities
Accommodations
Just like a college student at UC Berkeley, students share a dorm room with roommates and use a common bathroom. Floors are gender-segregated and rooms contain an extra-long twin size bed, desks, drawers, mirror and a closet.
Your Resident Advisor (RA) will live on your hall to create a community, provide support, plan activities and help you get the most out of your stay at Berkeley. Other members of the Summer Springboard staff also live on campus and are available to support students and tackle emergencies, 24 hours a day.
Meals
Most meals on campus will be at the local dining hall, conveniently located near our dormitory. We can accommodate diets such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, kosher, halal, or specific food allergies.
Pocket Money
You may want to think about bringing some extra cash with you to Summer Springboard. While your tuition covers the cost of meals and excursions, it will not cover any souvenirs you may want to pick up for family and friends or extra snacks. We suggest an extra $100 per week.
Accommodations
Excursions
Since we are based in Berkeley, San Francisco and Silicon Valley are also at our doorstep. We will explore the world-class resources of the entire region to expose you to one of the most innovative and exciting areas in the entire world. Additionally, we’ll enjoy the fun attractions in the vicinity. All excursions are fully supervised by Summer Springboard staff. Students may visit Stantec, one of the world’s top-tier design engineering firms. At Mission Bay, Stantec is helping the University of California, San Francisco transform cancer care. In Golden Gate Park, they partnered to design the California Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s greenest museums.
Berkeley, California
- As is true in most college towns, UC Berkeley is the community's arts and culture center. During your free time, you'll have time to explore the area around downtown Berkeley. Enjoy locally-sourced inspiration wherever you turn: scenic parks, famous stages, and renowned restaurants.
San Francisco & Golden Gate Bridge
- What better way to explore a city than a scavenger hunt around San Francisco. As students travel through the city, they are tasked to take photos and some famous landmarks: Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, Union Square, Ghirardelli Square, and a cable car!
Track-Specific Excursions
- In order to take full advantage of everything the Bay Area offers, each academic program may also take subject matter specific excursions to help round out the student experience. Previous visits have included: Google, Facebook, Bloomberg TV, San Francisco Chronicle, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, and more.
California's Great America
California's Great America is a 100-acre amusement park located in Santa Clara. The park has appeared in 1994 films Beverly Hills Cop III and Getting Even with Dad. One of its most notable attractions, Gold Striker, has been featured as a top-ranked wooden roller coaster in Amusement Today's annual Golden Ticket Awards publication
Excursions
Transportation
Summer Springboard provides an airport shuttle service for $95 each way.
Students who arrive during the flight window
will be met by a SSB staff member.
will wait at the airport with staff until the end of the flight window
will travel back to campus at the end of the flight window
Students who arrive before the flight window
- Will not be met immediately. Students must wait at the airport until the official arrival window.
Students who arrive after the flight window
- Will not be provided transportation to campus (with the exception of unexpected flight delays).
General Departure Info: On the last day of the program, students (who pay for the departure transfer - supplemental fee of $95) will be dropped at the airport at 10:00am, for flights departing from 12:00 and beyond. We cannot provide drop off service for flights earlier than 12pm.
Transportation
Lesson Plan
This program is a jam-packed week for middle school students interested in being introduced to the coding and programming fields with real hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of the topics. Our middle school program combines academic courses, interactive labs, and recreational activities to give middle school students a supportive, fun, and enriching summer experience. During this program students will design, build, and program a self-driving car with sensors that will follow a painted line. At the end of the program students will race their cars against each other.
Program Highlights
- Develop foundational coding skills and gain exposure to a variety of technology fields that are shaping the technology revolution.
- Learn concepts fundamental to all programming languages, such as variables, conditionals, booleans, loops, functions, and more.
- Build and program a self-driving car that can drive forward, backward, accelerate, follow lines, and avoid obstacles.
- Use computer-assisted design (CAD) software to design both functional and stylish parts of the car
- Explore digital electronics and physics kinematics circuits, using them to control currents and voltages.
- Perform commands on Arduino, an open-source electronics platform, in order to program the robot.
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Course Structure:
Hands on learning
- Students will have the opportunity to engage with highly accomplished specialists in this field. Guest speakers will share their wealth of knowledge and encourage innovative thinking in this area of learning. Hands-on learning is experienced through company visits in and around the incredible Silicon Valley. Outside of course specific studies the students will explore all the Bay Area has to offer! With so much rich history, breathtaking sights, parks and famed landmarks at our fingertips there is something for everyone to discover!
Course Structure
- There are four 3-hour class sessions over the one-week course. During the week, students have class from 9am-12pm, Monday - Thursday (program check-out is on Friday morning). Wednesday afternoon will be dedicated to additional academic time with possible excursions and/or guest speakers. ADDITIONAL INFO
- The Middle School programs operate separately from Summer Springboard high school programs with separate staff, accommodations, classes, and a more structured environment. For students completing grades 6-8.
Session Dates
Wonderful! Good News! You are not going to pay the full fee today, just a small deposit. After paying today, you will first get an enrollment form, and then receive a booking confirmation.
| Start | 7/7/2024 |
| End | 7/12/2024 |
| Duration | 1 Weeks |
| Price | $2,898.00 |
| Start | 7/7/2024 |
| End | 7/12/2024 |
| Duration | 1 Weeks |
| Price | $2,098.00 |
| Start | 7/14/2024 |
| End | 7/19/2024 |
| Duration | 1 Weeks |
| Price | $2,898.00 |
| Start | 7/14/2024 |
| End | 7/19/2024 |
| Duration | 1 Weeks |
| Price | $2,098.00 |
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