UPDATED: COVID INFORMATION as at June 3, 2022

Following the Alameda County Press Release on June 2, 2002, masks are now required for indoor settings which include our DPIE Summer school.  Click here for the full press release.

Due to the spike in COVID cases nation-wide this spring, DPIE is strongly recommending that all students who participate in the DPIE Middle and Elementary Summer  Camps on the Fallon Middle School campus wear masks while in the classroom. We realize this may be a bit of an inconvenience for some of you, but the safety of your student and of all students is of primary concern to us.  All DPIE teachers will be wearing masks as well during instructional periods.

DPIE will have hand sanitizer in each classroom for student and staff use during class sessions and protocols will be in place to isolate and contact parents immediately if a student exhibits signs of COVID during class time.  

What if my student has COVID?
If a student tests positive for COVID while at home, please email or call the DPIE Principal, Mr. Josh Holbak at holbakdpie.org (we will share a phone number prior to the start of the summer program) to let him know .  Mr. Holbak will inform your students teacher of your students’s situation. Because DPIE Middle and Elementary Summer Camps are enrichment courses generally lasting one, two or three weeks, it is unlikely that a student who is diagnosed with COVID will be able to complete class and a DPIE representative will work with parents to determine the best way to move forward.  

If a Student or teacher tests positive for COVID ...
-  Stay home for at least 5 days. (Link to CDC Flyer)
-  Isolation can end after day 5 if symptoms are not present or are resolving and a diagnostic specimen* collected on day 5 or later tests negative.
-  If unable to test or choosing not to test, and symptoms are not present or are resolving, isolation can end after day 10.
-  If fever is present, isolation should be continued until fever resolves.
-  If symptoms, other than fever, are not resolving, continue to isolate until symptoms are resolving or until after day 10.
-  Wear a well-fitting mask around others for a total of 10 days, especially in indoor settings.

*Antigen test preferred.

Instructor:             Julie Coching, Owner of Cafe Art
Grade Level:          1 - 5
Dates:                      Weeks 1 & 2:   June 12 - 23  | Monday to Friday (no class on June 19, 2023)
Time:                        8:30am - 9:30am 
Duration:                 9 x 1 hour
Room:                       B3
Tuition:                    $189

Course Description:
All new projects from last last year.  In this 2 week class, our students will learn about the Elements of Art – line, shape, color, value, texture, form and space. And the Principles of Design – pattern, contrast, emphasis, movement, balance, proportion and unity. While creating artwork each day around these elements and principles. We will work with a variety of mediums such as marker, oil pastel, tempura paint, water color, sharpies, and pencils.

DPIE & Café Art will supply all needed art materials for this class.

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Instructor:             Julie Coching, Owner Café Art
Grade Level:          1 - 6 
Dates:                      Weeks 2 & 3:  
                                   June 20 - June 30  | Monday to Friday (no class on June 19)
Time:                        12 Noon - 2:15pm
Duration:                 9 x 2 hours 15 minutes
Room:                       TBA
Tuition:                    $299

Course Description:
Artists will learn about the unique and amazing world we live in through fun and engaging art projects. We will explore different regions of the world and learn important elements and principles. The students will create an individual passport that they can use to document their travels and collect passport stamps. This is a multi-media class and we will work with watercolor, oil pastel, tempura, sharpie, collage, clay and ceramics, drawing and painting. We will explore work from Africa, Asia, Canada and USA, Central America and Mexico, Europe, Oceania and South America.

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Instructor:          Siah Fried, Certified Health Education Specialist
Grade Level:       2 - 6
Dates/Days:        Weeks 1 & 2: 
                                June 12– June 23  | Monday to Friday (no class on June 19)
Time:                     9am - 10:30am
Duration:              9 x 1 hour 30 minutes 
Room:                    TBA
Tuition:                  $279

Course Description:
Not only will this class keep the kids stimulated and busy, but they will be participating in important healthy lifestyle lessons in a way that they won’t know is educational.

From making healthy smoothies to taking mindful walks, everyday we will engage your student in a new aspect of being healthy in a fun way while they build a healthy, lifestyle toolbox full of recipes, self-awareness, as well as stress management and coping skills. Students will leave the program excited and motivated to care for their bodies and brain as they gain positive skills they can use for life.

This class will be interactive, fun, and hugely beneficial. They will learn essential health information relevant to caring for their growing minds and bodies through daily lessons focused on the following areas: nutrition, physical activity, stress management, resilience building and self-awareness. Through the use of a 7-foot doll, affectionately named "Stuffee," kids get an anatomically correct, but animated look at what organs exist inside their bodies and how food passes through it. Kids are told to eat healthy, be active and to not smoke, but they aren’t usually told why these healthy lifestyle choices are so important. 

Lessons with Stuffee helps illustrate the importance and reasons behind why we nag our kids about nutritionand activity. We also lay the groundwork for essential understanding of care for the importanceof their ever changing, growing brain and why they must care for it with healthy living.

As for their brain and mental health, participants will be able to identify at least 3 healthy coping strategies for themselves with a clear understanding of how and why these strategies are essential for mental and physical health. In addition, they will recognize at least 2 ways stress can be healthy and helpful to them per our popular "Make Stress Your Friend” lesson. Lastly, we will examine our strengths as an important tool to increase our self-awareness. By knowing our strengths we can use them for confidence and growth, and we can rely on and reflect upon our strengths to help us navigate our way through challenging times. Your child will have fun while strengthening their mind and body through healthy living lessons!

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Instructor:        Ms. Mugdha Kulkarni, Hindustani Classical Vocal Music Expert
Grade Level:     2 - 5
Dates/Days:      Weeks 1 & 2:  June 12 - 23  | Monday to Friday 
Time:                   10am - 11am
Duration:            9 x 1 hour   
Room:                 TBA
Tuition:               $269

Course Description:
Come and learn Hindustani Classical Vocal Music (singing) from scratch! Hindustani Classical Music has a rich tradition, which originated in South Asia and it can now be enjoyed in all corners of the world. This is a great opportunity for kids because, in addition to being a fun activity, learning music has multiple benefits including the following:

• It helps develop the parts of the brain related to language and reasoning
• It relieves stress and teaches children to focus
• It can improve children’s social skills and boost their confidence

This Hindustani Classical Vocal Music course does not need any prior knowledge of or training in any kind of music. At the very beginning of the course, we give significant emphasis on perfecting the Seven Swaras (i.e., musical notes). This is done by learning to sing repetitive patterns of the Seven Swaras called Alankars. Students are taught to coordinate their singing with the Harmonium played by the teacher, along with the Electronic Tabla for percussion support. After perfecting the Swaras, the students will follow a simple structure, which is especially geared towards new learners. Under this structure students learn to sing a Sargam Geet or a Swara Malika, first. As students become more adept and comfortable with the structure of Classical singing, we introduce them to the five-note scale of Raga Bhupali. Towards the end of the course students will learn a Chota Khayal (i.e., a complex composition) in Raga Bhupali.

The last class in the session will include a vocal music performance by the student group which can be enjoyed by friends and family.

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Instructor:             Julie Coching, Owner Café Art
Grade Level:          1 - 6 
Time:                        9:30am - 11:30am
Dates:                      Weeks 1 & 2:   June 13 - 24  | Monday to Friday
Duration:                2 hours (Total 20 instructional hours)
Room:                      F3
Tuition:                    Early Bird Pricing - $320   After May 30 - $335 

Course Description:
As we walk along the beach and dive under the sea, students will create ocean art with glass, painting, drawing, beading and plastering.  Through the use of these techniques and learned vocabulary, students will learn to enjoy an ocean of seaside art.

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Instructor:        CompuChild Instructor
Grade Level:     2 – 6
Time:                  9am - 12 noon
Dates:                 Week 1:   June 13 - 17  |  Monday to Friday
                              Week 3:  June 27 - July 1  | Monday to Friday
Duration:           3 hours   (Total 15 instructional hours)
Room:                 F5
Tuition:              Early Bird Pricing - $235   After May 30 - $250

Course Description:
Do you have a budding engineer in your family and children who just can’t get enough of building and problem solving? Then the Advanced Lego Robotic course might be just the class you’re looking for. The Advanced Robotics course is designed for students who have already participated in our Beginning Lego & Robotics course as taught in the DPIE After School Program or a student who has already taken a basic robotics course and learned or is familiar with the basics of block coding. Working in teams, students will participate in an interactive engineering design process and will be challenged to construct more complex and dynamic robot projects that enable them to successfully complete a series of engineering challenges.

Challenges will include:

1. Obstacle Course Learning
   Objectives: How to utilize motors, sensors and other Lego parts to build a moving robot and program.
   Goal: Kids will design a robot that will complete the obstacle course involving bridge, wall, river and other obstacles, in order to rescue a stranded individual and bring them back to base.
   
   
2. Mouse Maze
   Learning objectives: Learn how to take input from the environment and take action based on sensory data.
   Goal: Students will have to design and build a robot that will be able to take and respond to input from its environment and find its way through the maze.
   
   
3. Robot Sumo
   Learning objectives: Students will use the knowledge they have gained from previous projects and additional and more complex sensors to construct robots that are both robust and spatially aware
   Goal: Teams of students will compete in a robot sumo tournament. Student teams will create a fully autonomous robot with the goal of pushing the other robot out of the circle while maintaining their position in the circle.
   
   

Please note: To enroll in this course you MUST have first completed WeDo Lego Robotics for Elementary Students or been enrolled in Lego Robotics after school class.

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Instructor:             Ms Angelina Jennaro, Amador Elementary Teacher
Grade Level:          3 - 5 
Time:                        9am - 10:30am
Dates:                      Week 1:   June 13 - 17  | Monday to Friday
                                   Week 2:   June 20 - 24  | Monday to Friday
                                   Week 3:   June 27 - July 1  | Monday to Friday
Duration:                1 hour and 30 minutes (Total 7 hours and 30 minutes instructional hours)
Room:                      TBA
Tuition:                    Early Bird Pricing - $175   After May 30 - $190

Course Description:
This book club style course is based on the Common Core Standards, driven to create an engaging and educational way to promote reading and create lifelong readers with great books to read and keep. Through reading, students will hone-in and perfect comprehension skills which will positively impact their reading and writing skills along with enhancing their career and college readiness. Students will focus on comprehension through main and key ideas and details, text structure, context clues, along with text development and integration of their knowledge and ideas; all to strengthen and build their presentation of knowledge.  This course encourages students who love reading (or haven't discovered they do just yet) to engage in meaningful discussions while sharing thoughts, feelings and higher order thinking in small group, whole group and individual discussions.

Each week is a different book, which is listed below and students keep their booksat the end of the week.

• Week 1 Book - The Miraculous by Jess Redman
  Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records stories of the inexplicable and the extraordinary. These miracles fill Wunder with the feeling that he is not alone, that the world is magical, that he is part of something brighter than he can imagine.  But then his newborn sister dies, at only eight days old. If that can happen, then miracles don’t exist. So Wunder gets rid of The Miraculous. And he stops believing.....
  
  
• Week 2 Book - When the Stars are Scattered by Vitoria Jamieson
  Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day....
  
  
• Week 3 Book - Manaland by Pam Munoz
  Maximiliano Córdoba loves stories, especially the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow. If Max could see tomorrow, he would know if he'd make Santa Maria's celebrated fútbol team and whether he'd ever meet his mother, who disappeared when he was a baby. He longs to know more about her, but Papá won't talk. So when Max uncovers a buried family secret--involving an underground network of guardians who lead people fleeing a neighboring country to safety--he decides to seek answers on his own.With a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides, he sets out on a perilous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds.This timeless tale of struggle, hope, and the search for tomorrow has much to offer today about compassion and our shared humanity...
  

*Students can enroll in 1, 2 or 3 sessions since a different book will be read each week and students will learn a variety of reading strategies and techniques.

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Instructor:        Pyxeda/AI Club Instructor
Grade Level:     4 – 6
Time:                   10am - 12 noon
Dates/Days:      Session 1 - Week 1: June 13 – 17  | Monday to Friday ONLINE
                              Session 2 - Week 2: June 20 – June 24  | Monday to Friday IN PERSON
                              Session 1&2 - Weeks 1 & 2: June 13 – June 24  | Monday to Friday  ONLINE/IN-PERSON
                              Students can enroll in either Session 1 or 2 for a 1 week course or Session 3 for a 2 week course.
Duratin:             2 hours  (10 instructional hours each Session) 
Room:                 ONLINE Week 1
Tuition:               Session 1 or 2: Early Bird Pricing - $300     After May 30 - $315
                               Session 1&2: Early Bird Pricing - $575    After May 30 - $600

Course Description:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around us. Kids today already use AI in digital assistants like Alexa, in movie recommendations and more. In this camp, kids learn what AI is, learn how AI works and how it learns, and build several AI’s of their own including a custom project. They will get inspired by what they can build in the future! Curriculum Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Learn what AI is and different types of AI. Learn how things in daily life (like self-driving cars, Alexa, or your phone) use AI. Learn how to train an AI and measure how well it learns. Build and use AI’s that detect whether you are happy or sad and teach AI’s to learn how to predict categories!

Topics Covered

• What is AI, different types of AI, and how AI is built and used.
• Create an AI to learn from words and patterns.
•  Build different types of AI’s using Classification.  
• Learn how to improve an AI with better data. And learn how to teach an AI.
• See how AI is used in Language Translation and use a language translator to translate between your favorite languages.
• Build an AI to predict the prices of cars! See how you can teach an AI about different types of cars.
• See how an AI can recognize photos, drawings and even pictures of cats and dogs!
• Learn how AIs can create brand new pictures and even music! Build your own AI project to describe animals! 

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Instructor:        CodeFu Tri-Valley
Grade Level:     3 - 5
Time:                   9am  - 11 am
Dates/Days:      Week 2: June 20 – 24  | Monday to Friday
Duration:            2 hours   (Total 10 instructional hours)
Room:                 TBA
Tuition:               Early Bird Pricing - $199   After May 30 - $215  

Course Description:

In this course, students will be introduced to block-based coding and sequencing. Each project is designed to teach a specific aspect of programming such as setting up conditions, creating loops, and declaring variables. The class introduces students to new concepts like x and y positioning, scale with percentages and cause/effect, important for transitioning from the blocks to text based coding. Join now and become a master of game design and programming! Coding languages learned: Scratch

Core Subjects Incorporated: Creative Writing, Design Aesthetics and layout, Arithmetic, Percentages and other Units of Measurement.

Core Coding Subjects Learned: sequencing, conditional statements, looping, Coordination & Synchronization, arrays.

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