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Children can enjoy summer camp with an environmental theme at Earth Adventure Camp. Each week is packed with fun and games, as well as themed field trips, pool time, nature activities, and beach days.

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Band practice, photography, and culinary creations replace TV and video games at STAR Education's sites throughout greater Los Angeles. The program is run by the same organization that created the wonderful STAR Eco Station.

Encouraging creativity, innovation, and exploration with curriculum developed for gifted standards, STAR Camps focus on students' specific areas of interest. STAR - the largest provider of Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) in California - has opened these advanced programs to all children currently enrolled in first through fifth grades, helping them to maintain their academic progress throughout the winter break in an enriching, college-like environment. Each camp features an optional weekly field trip as well.

All-STAR Chefs teaches campers about different cooking techniques and take home samples of their gourmet creations, while All-STAR Photography brings an opportunity to hone skills for taking portraits, action shots, landscape, and indoor and outdoor pictures. At All-STAR Rockers, students receive one-on-one instruction from professional musicians and rehearse with a rock band of kids their own age.

Other camp themes include All-STAR Artists, All-STAR Chess Players, All-STAR Performers, All-STAR Scientists, and All-STAR Techies, who design their own websites. All-STAR ECO Station is held at the award-winning Environmental Science Museum and Exotic Wildlife Rescue Facility in Culver City, where campers come face-to-face with jungle cats, tropical birds, slithering snakes and crazy crocodiles on a daily basis.

Tips on Trips and Camps is a free advisory service providing information on over 600 overnight summer programs. In addition to traditional and specialty camps, consultants provide information on student travel, language immersion, outdoor adventure, community service, internships, and academic study in the US and abroad.

Tips on Trips and Camps identifies each child's needs through a dialogue with the family and matches those needs to the appropriate programs. Advisors assist parents in distinguishing between choices.

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