Sacramento Ballet Senior Summer Intensive
A five-week pre-professional summer intensive for serious ballet students ages 14-22, offering ballet technique, pointe, pas de deux, contemporary dance, and professional repertoire training with Sacramento Ballet's artistic staff; admission is by video or in-person audition.
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A 2-4 week ballet summer intensive for dancers ages 8-18 at Contra Costa Ballet Centre in Walnut Creek, requiring in-person or video audition for ages 9+, with daily technique, pointe, jazz, character, and repertoire training for intermediate/advanced levels.
Berkeley Ballet Theater Summer Intensive
A pre-professional ballet training program with Junior/Senior Summer Intensive tracks for ages 11-18, requiring a placement class before enrollment, offered alongside youth division classes and tuition-waived boys' classes at this Berkeley dance school.
Criminal & Forensic Science at UCLA (Summer Springboard)
A two-week residential pre-college course on the UCLA campus teaching forensic investigation techniques - fingerprint, fiber, blood-spatter, and DNA analysis - through crime scene simulations and team case studies, taught by a 36-year veteran Forensic Identification Specialist from the LA County Sheriff's Department. The program includes a field visit to a real police department crime lab and ends in a moot court presentation.
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Pacific McGeorge Law Summer Camp
University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law offers a two-week immersive high school course, 'Lawyers and the Rule of Law,' in Sacramento, where students learn legal analysis, argue mock cases, mediate disputes, and draft contracts alongside law faculty and JD students, with courtroom field trips.
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival - Upstart Crows
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