What is the Rosie's Girls Camp?

The most unique day camp experience
for girls in Santa Monica!

Rosie's Girls Santa Monica is based on a national program designed to build self-esteem, leadership and physical confidence in middle school girls through an exploration of trades and non-traditional activities.  During the one-week spring and three-week summer day camps, girls learn and apply skills in carpentry, welding, and other technical trades.  Our award-winning curriculum (California Park & Recreation Society "Best of the Best" Award winner) also includes creative expression (mask-making, furniture design & journal writing), physical challenges (kayaking & ropes course) and other unique experiences (role-playing as City Council members at City Hall & self-defense with the Santa Monica Police Department's D-Tac Team)!  Girls develop critical thinking skills as they explore issues such as gender roles, body image, and social pressure.

Why Trades?
Whether in a shop or applied to "real world" projects, trades activities offer an unusual and especially powerful vehicle for girls to develop a broader sense of themselves and their capabilities.  Trades activities challenge girls to learn  self-reliance, expand their math and science skills,  develop new areas of physical confidence,  expand the range of careers they might envision for themselves, and push past preconceived limitations.