Join Us for Summer 2024

Sharpen skills. Expand horizons. Have fun!

Join us this summer for fun, affordable and enriching experiences. Campers emerge from our camps with new ideas, new skills, new friends and new inspirations!

Please note: The list of camp offerings has not been finalized and is subject to change prior to March 1.

The Basics

Camps are led by EC faculty and coaches and other community experts, and build upon school curriculum or encourage exploration and thinking in a completely new subject or activity.
You do not need to attend Eastside Catholic to attend our summer camps. All are welcome!
Campers can attend a morning and afternoon camp on the same day with the option to remain on campus for a supervised lunch period between camps. Campers must bring their own, nut-free lunch each day.

Summer Camp participants are expected to comply with all program policies, including behavior that is respectful to instructors and other students, or the student is subject to dismissal from the camp without a refund.

Behavior Expectations

Be respectful of instructor and student helpers – follow directions and listen to instruction.
Ask your instructor before leaving the classroom or group (for restroom or water breaks).
Be kind and courteous of other campers—make a friend!
Respect other’s space – keep hands to yourself and share materials/supplies.
Be safe and have fun!

Consequences

Campers who do not follow camp expectations will be given 1 warning from the instructor. Failure to follow expectations after a warning is given or if behavior is deemed unsafe by the instructor or school staff member, the following consequences may apply:

Removal from class to Main Office/Principals office, parent called
Removal from camp, parent called to pick-up camper
No refund will be issued if a camper is removed due to behavior.
Camper may or may not be invited back to EC for remaining camp days, depending on the nature of the incident.

Refund and Camp Change Policy

Refunds will only be given for cancellations before June 1. After June 1, refunds are given only if Eastside Catholic cancels a camp.

Refunds are not given when the camp is held but a student does not participate in the camp for any reason.

Changing from one camp to another, as long as space is available, is permitted without a fee before June 1. After June 1, if you want to change camps, a $25 fee per change will be charged.

Extended Care and Late Pickup Fees

Extended Care
As part of their registration, families have the option to pay $20 for 30 minutes of extended care: until 12:30 p.m. for morning camps and until 4:30 p.m. for afternoon camps. Please note: All students must be picked up by 4:30 p.m. Campus closes at 4:30 p.m.

Late Pickup Fees
Families more than 5 minutes late for pickup (12:05 p.m. for morning camps, 4:05 p.m. for afternoon camps) who did not request extended care beforehand will be charged $25. Please note: All students must be picked up by 4:30 p.m. Campus closes at 4:30 p.m.

If you are going to be late, please call the Front Office at 425-295-3000 to inform them of your expected arrival time, or to inform them that someone else will pick up your camper. Please contact Summer Program Registrar Liz Anderson with questions.

Supervised Lunch

If you register a camper for a morning and afternoon session during the same week, they are eligible for free, on campus supervised lunch. Please add the Supervised Lunch option to your cart as part of your registration if you would like your camper to stay on campus between their morning and afternoon session. Please note: Food is not included as part of supervised lunch.

Camper Drop Off and Pickup

Middle school and high school students can be dropped off and picked up in the lower roundabout by the flag poles. Campers in grades K-5 should be picked up in the Main Lobby at noon for morning camps and at 4 p.m. for afternoon camps.

If you are dropping off or picking up campers, please use the lower roundabout by the flag poles. Please use either of the lower parking lots if you need to park and walk up to campus. Do not leave your car unattended in the lower loop. This area is for active pick-up and drop-off only.

The upper driveway loop is reserved for emergency vehicles, reserved visitors and ADA parking. You must make prior arrangements to ensure parking and drop-off are available in the reserved spaces past the bridge.

If a camper must leave camp early, please notify the instructor and Summer Program Coordinator Liz Anderson beforehand and during check-in on the early dismissal day.

International Students

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required for international students who would like to participate in Eastside Catholic summer camps. The minimum score for the TOEFL exam is 80 for students in high school. Middle school students must have a minimum score of four on the TOEFL Junior. This requirement ensures our international camp participants have a meaningful and engaging experience in our summer camps.

Week of June 24 - 28

AM or PM: Pedalheads (Grades K - 6)

Register for this camp at pedalheads.com/camp.

Grades K - 6 | 9 a.m. - noon or 1 - 4 p.m. | $370
5-day camp

Whether your child is on a balance bike, a tricycle or has already mastered riding on two wheels, our incredible instructors help riders develop their bike and safety skills that stay with them for life! Campers will also make new friends while doing fun activities. This camp is held on EC's campus.

Instructor: Pedalheads Instructors

AM: Back to Basics Summertime Fun! (Grades 3 - 5)

Grades 3 - 5 | 9 a.m. - noon | $205
5-day camp

Join us for a week filled with indoor and outdoor active games, arts and crafts activities and more! You’ll play ice-breaker games, outdoor challenges, board and card games, and participate in a paper airplane competition. Arts and crafts activities include origami, bracelet making, drawing and more.

Instructor: EC Middle School Humanities Teacher Elizabeth Helmer

AM: Entrepreneurship, Business Marketing & Beyond! (Grades 6 - 8)

Grades 6 - 8 | 9 a.m. - noon | $205
5-day camp

Have you ever thought about what you’d like to do for a job? Or imagine what it would be like to run your own business? Or create and develop your own products? During this camp, you’ll get to step into the creative and complex world of business! By the end of the week, you’ll know the basics of entrepreneurship and marketing and how to interview for a job. We’ll also play with virtual simulations related to stocks and small businesses. Students will ultimately learn the importance of creative problem-solving and effective communication as they plan for their future in a wide range of job markets.

Instructors: EC Business Education and DECA Teacher Tyler McLaughlin and EC English Teacher Isaac Melum

PM: Creative Kids Arts & Crafts (Grades K - 5)

PM: Cartooning (Grades 5 - 8)

Grades 5 - 8 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $205
5-day camp

Cartooning is a fun way to build your artistic skill and confidence in drawing. This camp will introduce basic drawing with pencil and ink pen to bring your drawing more to form. You will focus on transforming simple shapes into images while making them more three-dimensional. For the novice artist or someone trying to brush up on their drawing skills, this camp will benefit the potential artist in you. All materials will be provided.

Instructor: EC Visual Arts Teacher Alan Ordoña

Week of July 8 - 12

AM or PM: Pedalheads (Grades K - 6)

Register for this camp at pedalheads.com/camp.

Grades K - 6 | 9 a.m. - noon or 1 - 4 p.m. | $345
5-day camp

AM: Animals Are Everywhere Science Camp (Grades 1 - 4)

Grades 1 - 4 | 9 a.m. - noon | $205
5-day camp

In this activity-packed camp, you'll learn about the different creatures and creature habitats in our local area and around the world. Through hands-on science experiments, exploration, games and activities, you will discover incredible details about the fantastic creatures that share our planet.

Instructor: Middle School Teacher Davis Hatch

AM: Tennis Camp, 4-Day Camp (Grades 5 - 8) - FULL

Grades 5 - 8 | 9 a.m. - noon | $175
4-day camp (July 8 -11) with rain make-up day on Friday, July 12, if needed

Grab your racket and head to the EC Clark Family Tennis Pavilion courts! Whether you're a first-time player or someone who knows how to play tennis, this camp is for you! EC's head tennis coach and varsity players will help you become confident with the basic skills to play a tennis match. Before you know it, you'll understand the game and be able to volley, hit groundstrokes and serve. Our goal is for you to discover a love for tennis while having a ton of fun! See you on the courts!

Please bring a water bottle, a hat, a visor or sunglasses, sunblock, non-scuffing tennis shoes and a racket! Campers can borrow a racket if they do not have one.

Coach: EC Tennis Coach Trista Campbell

AM: Pre-Algebra Prep (Grades 6 - 7)

AM: Algebra Prep, 2-week camp (Grades 7 - 9)

Grades 7 - 9 | 9 a.m. - noon | $385
2-week camp, July 8-12 and July 15-19.

Strengthen your pre-algebra and linear algebra skills to prepare for middle school non-linear algebra or high school algebra. This course will briefly review the concepts of ratios, rate and proportion and will review operations with integers and order of operations. We will focus on linear algebra skills, where you will learn to translate information among tables, graphs and equations. You will learn how to combine like terms, solve inequalities, draw a best-fit line on a scatter plot and find an equation for that line.

Instructor: EC Middle School Math Teacher Leslie Meier

PM: Creative Kids Arts & Crafts Camp (Grades K - 5)

PM: CSI Science Camp (Grades 5 - 8)

Grades 5 - 8 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $205
5-day camp

What does it take to solve a crime? In this engaging science camp, you will immerse yourself in crime scene investigation (CSI). To solve a mysterious crime, you will conduct forensic lab activities and use science equipment to gather enough evidence to identify the culprit. This camp is perfect if you are a curious-minded scientist who enjoys hands-on experiments involving real-life science applications.

Instructor: Middle School Teacher Davis Hatch

PM: Boys Lacrosse, 4-Day Camp (Grades 5 - 8)

Grades 5 - 8 | 1 - 4 p.m | $175
4-day camp, July 8 - 11

Learn lacrosse fundamentals and nuanced skills with EC Head Coach and professional lacrosse player Christian Mazzone. This four-day experience will help you improve your stick skills, lacrosse knowledge and learn how to be an effective teammate.

Required equipment: full pads, gloves, stick, elbow pads, shoulder pads, cleats; helmet is optional

Instructor: EC Head Lacrosse Coach Christian Mazzone with EC varsity players assisting

PM: Girls Lacrosse, 4-Day Camp (Grades 5 - 8)

Grades 5 - 8 | 1 - 4 p.m | $175
4-day camp, July 8 - 11

Learn lacrosse fundamentals and the nuanced skills of girl’s lacrosse with with EC Head Coach and professional lacrosse player Christian Mazzone and other EC lacrosse coaches. Our four-day camp will help you improve your stick skills, lacrosse knowledge and learn how to be an effective teammate.

Required equipment: stick, goggles, mouth guard, cleats; helmet is optional

Instructor: EC Head Lacrosse Coach Christian Mazzone with EC coaches and varsity players assisting

PM: Summer Scribble Writing Camp (Grades 7 - 9)

Grades 7 - 9 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $205
5-day camp

Get ready for a word-filled adventure at our Summer Scribble Camp! This session is tailor-made for middle schoolers who are itching to unleash their creativity and sharpen their writing skills. The camp is packed with literary delights and games as campers practice their creative writing skills.

Instructor: EC Middle School Humanities Teacher Nicole Maloney

PM: Algebra Review (Grades 7 - 10)

Grades 7 - 10 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $205
5-day camp

In this course, you will review linear, exponential and quadratic relationships through complex group tasks. This course reviews Algebra 1 material for students who have taken Algebra 1 or an eighth-grade level equivalent to Algebra 1. This camp is an excellent opportunity to prepare for success at the next mathematics level.

Instructor: EC Middle School Math Teacher Aminta Procel

Week of July 15 - 19

All Day: Camp Invention (Grades K - 6 ) - FULL

Please note: This camp is full. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please visit invent.org/mylocalcamp.

Grades K - 6 | 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | $295
5-day camp

Inspire your child's creativity and watch their confidence soar with our all-new Camp Invention® program, Illuminate! In this nationally acclaimed program, campers in grades K-6 will team up with friends for hands-on, open-ended STEM fun. They'll design their own light-up ball game, explore the science of illumination, tackle global water challenges and star in a prototyping game show! Each experience is designed to spark curiosity, build persistence and create an unforgettable summer.

Instructor: Camp Invention Instructors

AM or PM: Pedalheads (Grades K - 6)

Register for this camp at pedalheads.com/camp.

Grades K - 6 | 9 a.m. - noon or 1 - 4 p.m. | $345
5-day camp

AM: Paragraph Precision Camp (Grades 6 - 7)

Grades 6 - 7 | 9 a.m. - noon | $205
5-day camp

Embark on a week of academic exploration at our Paragraph Precision Camp. This session is tailored for students to practice their basic paragraph writing skills, including critical elements such as claim, evidence and reasoning. Writing activities and games will help students hone their writing ability and craft well-organized and logically flowing paragraphs for the next school year and beyond.

Instructor: EC Middle School Humanities Teacher Nicole Maloney

PM: Raise the Curtain Drama Camp (Grades 5 - 9)

Grades 5 - 9 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $205
5-day camp

This week is filled with beginning character work, improvisation, singing, dancing, novice script work, and most importantly, fun! Each day will be an adventure into the life of an actor, including improv games, stretching your imagination, kid-friendly theater, classic sing-alongs and slipping on your dancing shoes to learn fun and easy group choreography. We will also review a few short scripts and share a performance for friends and family on the last day of camp. Fun will be our top priority as we delve into what it's like to be a performer.

Instructor: High School Drama Teacher Nick Brown

Week of July 22 - 26

All Day: Art and Animation by DigiPen (Grades 5 - 8)

Register for this camp through DigiPen.

Grades 5 - 8 | 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. | $959
5-day camp

As students mature and their appreciation for art becomes more nuanced, so too can their ability to conceive of and create more complex compositions. Cultivating their passion for artistic expression becomes even more important at this stage in their development.

This Adventurers workshop expands on techniques they’ve learned as young learners and begins introducing more intricate styles of producing art. Instructors will guide students through drawing and painting techniques, eventually leading into a better understanding of how to take static images and objects and process them into moving animations. This camp is held on EC's campus.

By the end of the workshop, students will be able to combine everything they’ve learned to produce short stop-motion or 2D animated clips.

Projects in this workshop may include: Creating an attack animation for a video game or creating a humorous animation.

Instructor: DigiPen Instructors

All Day: It's a Beach Party Day Camp (Grades 1 - 5)

Grades 1 - 5 | 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. | $385
5-day camp

Based on traditional scouting camps, join us to explore the natural wonders of our beautiful oceans and beaches! In this full-day camp, campers will "dive" into the nature of beach-life and ocean, create beach-themed snacks, play games, sing songs, create beachy crafts, and have a regular old beach party on the EC-campus!

Campers will be grouped by age: first and second graders together; third, fourth and fifth graders in grade-level groups.

Instructor: Academic Resources Teacher Robin Lowell '94 and Angela Dahrea

AM or PM: Pedalheads (Grades K - 6)

Register for this camp at pedalheads.com/camp.

Grades K - 6 | 9 a.m. - noon or 1 - 4 p.m. | $345
5-day camp

AM: Math Foundations (Grades 5 - 6)

Grades 5 - 6 | 9 a.m. - noon | $205
5-day camp

Strengthen your foundational skills to prepare for ﬁfth or sixth-grade math while having fun! This course will review the basic operations of writing and solving story problems. You will also learn about prime, composite and/or square numbers, factors, multiples and how to represent a fraction as a decimal and/or percent. This camp is an excellent opportunity to get a jump on next year!

Instructor: EC Academic Resources Teacher Arielle McComb

AM: Tennis Camp, 4-Day Camp (Grades 5 - 8) - FULL

Grades 5 - 8 | 9 a.m. - noon | $175
4-day camp (July 22-25) with rain makeup day on Friday, July 26, if needed

Please bring a water bottle, a hat, a visor or sunglasses, sunblock, non-scuffing tennis shoes and a racket! Campers can borrow a racket if they do not have one.

Coach: EC Tennis Coach Trista Campbell

AM: College Essay Writing (Grades 11 - 12)

Grades 11 - 12 | 9 a.m. - noon | $205
5-day camp

This popular camp will help you prepare your personal statement for college applications. We will examine prompts from both the Common and Coalition Apps, review successful models of personal statements and spend time brainstorming, drafting and revising your own statement. By the end of the camp, you will have a completed draft of a personal statement to use for college applications and feel accomplished knowing you have a jump start on applying to colleges in the fall!

Instructor: EC College Counselor Samantha Galluzzo

PM: College Application Bootcamp (Grades 11 - 12)

Grades 11 - 12 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $205
5-day camp

This camp will cover the different aspects of the college application process for students. Areas of focus will include building the college list, understanding various types of applications, how to research colleges, how to communicate with a college admissions office, strategies for writing supplemental essays, how to approach senior year and other topics related to college applications. Please note: Students will not complete a college essay as part of this camp.

Instructor: EC College Counselor Samantha Galluzzo

Week of July 29 - August 2

AM or PM: Pedalheads (Grades K - 6)

Register for this camp at pedalheads.com/camp.

Grades K - 6 | 9 a.m. - noon or 1 - 4 p.m. | $345
5-day camp

AM: College Essay Writing (Grades 11 - 12)

Grades 11 - 12 | 9 a.m. - noon | $205
5-day camp

PM: Cheer Camp, 4-Day Camp (Grades K - 8)

PM: College Application Bootcamp (Grades 11 - 12)

Grades 11 - 12 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $205
5-day camp

This camp will cover the different aspects of the college application process for students. Areas of focus will include building the college list, understanding various types of applications, how to research colleges, how to communicate with a college admissions office, strategies for writing supplemental essays, how to approach senior year and other topics related to college applications. Please note: Students will not complete a college essay as part of this camp.

Instructor: EC College Counselor Lillian Do-Tran

PM: LEGO Prime Robotics (Grades 5 - 8)

Grades 5 - 8 | 1 - 4 p.m. | $230
5-day camp

This camp offers an immersive and hands-on experience for young robotic enthusiasts to explore the exciting world of robotics using the LEGO Prime Building Set. Through engaging activities, challenges and teamwork, campers will embark on a journey to discover the endless possibilities of robotics while honing their problem-solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills.

Instructor: EC Computer Science and Robotics Teacher Jordan Early

Questions?

Contact Summer Program Registrar Liz Anderson or 425-295-3000.

As a family, we wanted to thank you and your team for organizing and hosting some amazing and memorable summer camps!

- The Moore Family