Is Innovation for Youth worth it?

Parents recommend Innovation for Youth and the average rating is 5 out of 5. Overall, the reviews indicate that Innovation for Youth provides engaging and enjoyable experiences for children.

What ages can go to Innovation for Youth?

Innovation for Youth has classes for children for all ages. Age-appropriate activities are designed to engage and inspire children at different developmental stages.

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Innovation for Youth

Our overarching goal is to delivering amazingly fun, enriching and socially engaging learning enrichment activities. We offer camps, classes, events, and pop-up maker spaces. We pride ourselves in the quality and uniqueness of our programs.

We offer learning enrichment camps in Palo Alto, California during the summer and during school session breaks when families are looking for acitivites that combine enriching activities with quality childcare.

During the school year we focus on developing curriculum and offering programs during the school day such as STEM enrichment classes, intersession programs, and pop-up maker spaces.

Founded in 2016

Our Staff

Jay Gluckman - Camps and Classes Managing Co-Founder and Mentor Instructor

Jay has been a STEM Educator for two decades and has literally worked with all ages to support STEM education in the community. He has taught STEM enrichment classes for pre-school, elementary school, middle school, and high school. Additionally he has led college internship projects in STEM education, delivered teacher professional development classes in STEM and coordinated parent volunteer to led hands-on parent implemented STEM activities. Jay honed his skills as a STEM educator and learning activity developer working as a Lab Instructor for the Tech Museum of Innovation and as an Educational Specialist for Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT). Jay has an undergraduate degree in social science from UC Berkeley and completed two years of post baccalaureate studies in Mechanical Engineer at San Jose State University.

Jay is now in his 4th year serving on PTA Executive Boards in schools in the Palo Alto Unified School District and is currently the PTA President for the Fairmeadow Elementary PTA.

Staff Qualifications and Background Checks

All Innovation for Youth Staff have strong experience in school age childcare and have received background checks and fingerprint screening as required by law. Camp instructors must have a combination of proven STEM experience and youth leadership experience. Our childcare leads have years of childcare experience and go through our in house childcare education training. Assistant counselors are high school students with strong youth leadership experience and demonstrated interest in STEM and attend our in-house training for Assistant Counselors.

Honors & Awards

Best of Activity Hero 2020

Tax ID (EIN): 82-1065851

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Reviews

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(Science Fiction Makerspace Camp)

August 25, 2024 - Cody Keffer

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My son participated in the Sci Fi summer camp. He had a great time and learned new skills. The camp was super engaging with everything from stop animation and green screen to making smoke circles. The instructors really adapted to the interest and engagement of the students. It was one of my son's favorite camps this summer!

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August 26, 2024

It is gratifying to hear that your son had a great experience at our Sci-Fi Makerspace Camp and thank you taking the time to share a review about your experience. Our team worked very hard to provide opportunities for our elementary ages campers to explore how to create digital and practical special effects ....I am so glad you son had just a good time!

July 30, 2024 - Yi Wu

Highly recommend the camp for learning and having fun! My son 7yr old loves the Sci-Fi camp he was attending last week and he had so much joy playing in the camp. He asked me wether he can return next year.

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July 30, 2024

Thank you so much for sharing what a great time your son has at our camp! We're thrilled to hear that your son loved the Sci-Fi Makerspace camp and had wonderful learning experiences there. We are glad that the kind of engaging and fun educational programs we deliver worked so well for your son. We look forward to welcome him back next year for more adventures....

November 12, 2021 - Sandra Gonzalez

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My Girl Scout troop of 6 girls signed up for a Sunday morning session. I really liked seeing a class for girls led by a high school girl who is a great STEM instructor. It made me happy to see girls own that space for other girls. Please keep doing what you are doing!

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Questions & Answers

What supplies are needed? (Art @ Home - Art for All Abilities Camp) -

asked on Jun 11, 2020

Jun 11, 2020 - Jacob Gluckman

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Thanks for your question about the supplies for Art@Home summer camp. The supplies are all common art supplies that are used for children's projects, plus a few item that you probably have at home already like: cardboard, Q-tips and aluminum foil. The full list of materials can be access at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ldKadU7pfhsjR2zP4l7n5TmS1QorqOYX/view -

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I have not received the zoom information until to now (Art @ Home - Art for All Abilities) -

asked on May 05, 2020

Jun 11, 2020 - Jacob Gluckman

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My apologies that your question is only be answer just now. Fortunately, now that Activity Hero has added the "Addition Session Details" feature to the registration process, the Zoom links will be now easily accessed. To get the zoom links for our activities in Activity Hero, just login, look in the dropdown menu with your name, select "My Registrations", and on the activity you need the Zoom link for, click on the "Registration Details" link. The Zoom link information should be there several days before the start of the activity. -

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Innovation for Youth

Our overarching goal is to delivering enriching and socially engaging learning enrichment activities. We offer camps, classes, events, and pop-up maker spaces.

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