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My kids, 14, 13 & 9 have all been going to Edmo fo...

My kids, 14, 13 & 9 have all been going to Edmo for years. This summer my daughter came home saying I really wish you d send me there more. !!!!!! Music to my ears. They always come home engaged and interested in continuing whatever they have learned (coding, etc) at home...which exposes all of us to new & interesting skills. Thank you, Edmo!

Not worth your money.

Not worth your money.

I found out the hard way that the EDMO camp at Heather Elementary this year is run completely by teenagers with their site director who could be 20, but unlikely more than 22. Second day at camp another child dropped a rock about the size of a kiwifruit on my son's head from above. The Camp Director called me immediately and we picked him up. Fortunately there was no permanent damage, just a ugly bruised bump about 1 inch in diameter. My child has a cast for his broken arm so he spent most of his time sitting in the shade. While he was sitting in a raised bed, another child dropped that rock on his head for no reason.

One little girl who witnessed the whole thing told the instructors who it was. That child did not admit to it. I thought the camp would for sure expel this kid or at least do something. I sent them an email to all of their email addresses, including the site director, asking that child to be kept away from mine. I got no answer. The following day I went to ask how they plan to deal with this. The director said she told everyone that areas with rocks are now off limits. I asked her what happened to the other child, whether they are still allowed to attend. She said they have been dropped off and the parents are now at work. I told her I need to speak to her boss. She said she can't get a hold of her. I asked if her boss has a boss, and she said no the boss is the owner. I told her if I can't get to speak to anybody about this I will have to file a police report, and at that she got scared and called someone frantically. Finally we got an adult on the phone and she promised in cases like this the other child will be banned from the rest of the camp and they will make sure they are not placed in the same camp in the future. In the end nothing like that happened. They brought the other set of parents in who said there is no way their child could have done it. The regional supervisor?/director completely sided with them because we "got angry", as if we didn't have a right to be angry when such a horrible thing happens to your child. In the end they basically told us they don't have enough proof that the child is the attacker, and I can't use the words attacker and victim in front of my child, so that it's best if we don't come back to camp the following day. I have to admit that I did get on their nerves by staying at the camp for the whole day since the children were in close vicinity of each other and I didn't think it would be safe to leave him there, and being attacked should not be a reason to give up his fun at camp. The conclusion is they will give my money back if I ask for it, but my child, who got hurt for no reason, cannot attend camp but the child who hurt him can go because he didn't confess.

The camp itself was kind of fun. They basically played silly games all day long. The Maker part is not all that. They just taped cardboard boxes and bottles together with no instructions. Nothing wrong with that, but not what I imagined Maker camp would be doing. The camp instructors were young, and again nothing wrong with that but they had no air of authority over the kids at camp. No one looked like an adult on campus.

Another thing is, at the end of the day, the person I was dealing with told me I cannot come the following day because I was not background checked. This is hilarious to me because she should have told me this in the morning when I offered her my 2 options: 1. I will take my son home with me or 2. I will stay here and watch him at camp until the child who attacked him is gone. She allowed me to stay against her own rules, and at the end of the day she found out about her own rules because I annoyed her too much. The fact that I was allowed to stay there the whole day means they weren't too strict about that rule either.

We filed a police report and the San Carlos policeman told us it's good we tell them about such incidents. More than 24 hours after the injury, I still have not seen an incident report from the camp.

Fantastic camp, culture, content. My son (5th grad...

Fantastic camp, culture, content. My son (5th grader) is learning so much. Keep up the good work!
Highly commend your contribution to the community with your equity design. You guys are setting a great example. Thank you!

Camp Edmo has created a winning Summer Camp for my...

Camp Edmo has created a winning Summer Camp for my family! The creativity combined with social-emotional skills was amazing for my kids. They came home each day with new cheers, games, etc that were able to carry over into our camping trips!
The absolute highlight of every week was the "pie in the face" challenge! What a delight for the kids throw a pie in a camp counselor's face! Even if they weren't the pie thrower, the kids roared with excitement! Such fun weeks were had at Camp Edmo in Petaluma!

I do reviews rarely, however, this camp was WAY be...

I do reviews rarely, however, this camp was WAY below an average camp. My son (EDMO Pro) was in a 2-week camp for robotics and a 1-week camp for Minecraft mod programming.

1- The camp regular hours is from 9 am to 3 pm (without before/aftercare). Out of those hours, only 2 hours is spent on learning (or as they call it enrichment). I wouldn't have a problem with that kind of schedule if for the rest of the day they had some fun. But sitting there and watching instructors playing together without involving kids is not considered a summer fun activity for 5th-8th-grade students.

2- The instructor and the staff at the robotics camp were nice but unfortunately the instructor didn't have adequate knowledge of the subject. My son knew more than he did. The description on their website was misleading otherwise I would have never signed up my son for a camp that is below his level of knowledge.

3- The instructor at the Minecraft mod coding camp was not only incompetent but also what I would describe as an obsessed, non-professional instructor. The first day of the camp the instructor spent half an hour on a threatening pep-talk that if you do this and that, so and so will happen. When my son asked him about a line of code to learn why he should write the code like that the instructor reply was: "because I said so". All the time the only thing they were allowed to do was to copy the code, no questions, no discussion to explore or figure things out was allowed. It is very unfortunate to see that EDMO camp's definition of learning and having fun is to copy from the instructor without asking a question. That sounds more like a factory model of education. We are in the 21st century and things have changed dramatically.

To summarize our experience with camp EDMO: zero learning and zero fun.

So sad....it's our last week of Edmo!! Spencer ha...

So sad....it's our last week of Edmo!! Spencer has loved every day of his last year's experience as a camper with this amazing organization. Laius is an awesome Director and the entire staff of counselors and instructions at the Oakland campus (Vannary, Amy, Brandi, Marcos, Emori, Maleeah, Josiah, Justice, Kelechi, Haylin & Leiani ) make up the most loving and creative group of counselors ever! Not to mention the dynamic programs available....go derby go! Thank you Camp Edmo, you guys deserves the highest accolades as the #1 camp in the East Bay!!