Wall Street Academy (University of San Francisco)
A week-long, in-person investing intensive at USF's Investment Lab where high schoolers use industry-standard tools like Bloomberg Terminal and FactSet to study investment fundamentals and global financial markets, including visits to major financial institutions such as BlackRock and Merrill Lynch.
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SUMMERFILM is an immersive documentary filmmaking workshop for teens run by CAFILM Education, the youth education arm of the California Film Institute (which also produces the Mill Valley Film Festival). Students in grades 9-12 spend a week working with professional filmmakers at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael to learn documentary storytelling, production, and editing, culminating in an original short film.
University of the Pacific Pre-College: Investing in Stocks
A pre-college summer course using the Eberhardt Student Investment Fund at University of the Pacific, taking high schoolers from investment fundamentals through executing actual stock trades on real exchanges.
California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) - Animation
CSSSA's Animation program is a distinct discipline track (separate department and faculty from the CSSSA Film program) within California's official state summer arts school. High school students explore traditional, cutout, and digital animation techniques, producing multiple animated projects over a residential summer session with guest artists, field trips to animation studios, and figure drawing training.
Immerse Education Software Development & AI Summer Programme (Bay Area)
A one-week overnight coding and AI summer program hosted at UC Berkeley for students ages 15-18, covering programming fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, applied AI, and game design, with career-skills sessions and one-on-one coaching from industry professionals. The program emphasizes exposure to Silicon Valley's tech and gaming industries alongside hands-on coding projects.
JA Take Stock in Your Future
A Junior Achievement of Northern California course spanning five sessions that introduces high schoolers to stock market fundamentals, current market analysis, and practical trading experience, with an optional stock market competition component.
NorCal Stock Market Challenge (Junior Achievement)
A one-day, live stock market simulation event hosted by Junior Achievement of Northern California where high school teams build and manage investment portfolios in real time and compete against other regional teams.