AEF Summer Camps will be starting in July. We are delighted to be able to offer in person camps for students! We still have a few spaces open including in our Math, Spanish, Flag Football, Art, Yoga, Sewing, SCRATCH Game Design and Intro to Guitar/Music Recording Camps. Aftercare is available. For more detailed information go to our Summer Camps page, or you can click here to see the list of camps that are still available and register by clicking here.
One-Week Camps
June 15 – August 7, 2020
Registration begins May 27th at 9:30 AM
AEF is excited to launch Online Summer Camps! Click here to learn more about our camps.
AEF online camps offer a wide range of subjects to keep your students engaged, learning, and active! There are 47 camps to choose from! Camps are for students in grades K – 8 with a special camp just for 9th –
Help Students While They Shelter-in-Place!
Update April 22, 2020: 500 more Art Kits being ordered!
Are you able to help low-income students during Shelter-in-Place by purchasing an Art Kit? These kits include school and art supplies to help students continue learning and exercise their creativity during their time at home. Each kit is only $10.
Kits are customized by grade level and contain things like coloring &
AEF is offering high quality half day camps in a myriad of areas from arts to sports to technology. After care available! Register by clicking on the blue “Summer Camps” button. Click here for more information.
The Alameda Education Foundation’s middle school cross country club, the Alameda Asteroids, completed their season in November with a strong showing at the regional championships on November 3, 2016. 
The championship meet was held at Canyon Middle School where a new spectator friendly course was created. The sixth grade boys as a collective came in 2nd place. Six medals were presented to our students at the awards ceremony. We received 3 first place medals,
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By Debra Cramer, Alameda Asteroids coach
The Alameda Asteroids Middle School Cross Country Club hosted a meet with 11 Bay Area schools from the SACMAL league on Wednesday, September 28th at Crab Cove. The Alameda Asteroids is a middle school cross country club managed under AEF’s after-school enrichment program. Sixth – 8th graders from Alameda middle schools participate in the running club from September through November each fall and compete as a team against schools from outside Alameda.
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My name is Amy and I took the circus arts camp from AEF. The circus arts camp was my favorite camp, and I have done a lot of camps. I mastered the stilts, floor, plate spinning, low bar, Diabolo, and more in my week of camp. We got a 20-minute break to go outside. We even got to try out a unicycle!
The instructors were very kind and energetic. There were a few kids who were challenging but the instructors were able to help them learn things,
The sheer volume of AEF’s Enrichment program is impressive enough – 400 after school classes and 70 summer camps serving upwards of 3,000 students per year. But it’s the impact it makes on the individual students that means the most.
Take Caitlin*. A second grader, Caitlin signed up for one of AEF’s “Beginning Violin” classes. She had missed almost the full prior year of school following three weeks in the hospital and was finding it hard to adjust to being back at school.
