Our program awakens curiosity, explores nature, and creates connections between ideas and between the students themselves. Students ask questions find their own answers through hands-on exploration. We facilitate social learning, we require students to keep their electronic devices at home, we offer traditional camp activities such as archery and campfire, and we integrate team-building into everything that we do.

Camp Ocean Pines sits on 13 acres of Monterey pine forest surrounded by protected land with fantastic views of the Pacific Ocean. This unique location, with access to both the forest and the ocean, has allowed us to develop a comprehensive curriculum and exciting excursions based around fascinating ecosystems. Lessons are immersive and hands-on, designed around concepts integral to Next Generation Science Standards. During the day, students go kayaking in a local estuary, tide pooling along the coast, or for a hike to an elephant seal rookery. In the evenings, students explore our 100-gallon marine invertebrate touch tank, meet our live great horned owl, or dissect their own squid!