Build a Summer Education for Rising 1st-8th Graders
BASE Camp Is Open to Students from Any School
OPEF’s biggest program is BASE Camp, otherwise known as “Build A Summer Education”. Our STEAM summer camp offerings are for rising 1st-8th graders. Families can build their own summer education experience each week choosing between AM and PM sessions. We also offer before and after care. OPEF BASE Camp is open to students from aany school, not just D97 students. OPEF BASE Camps are led by passionate, experienced, friendly teachers-mainly from D97- and youth counselors. Camps are held in local Oak Park D97 schools.
BASE Camp Schedule
Check out the wide variety of summer camps programs for 1st through 8th graders from 2023. The summer 2024 list will be updated in January.
Registration
OPEF Base Camp Registration begins in February 2024.
Camp Programs
Check out the BASE Camp descriptions from 2023. Camps will be updated in January 2024.
FAQs
Get answers to your most important questions concerning BASE Camp.
Gift Card Options
Login or create an Amilia account below for full access to view and purchase gift cards for OPEF BASE Camp. To celebrate the holidays, we are offering 10% off on all gift cards in December!
BASE Camp Handbook
A list of the basic information from who to contact to what to bring to camp.
Schedule for OPEF BASE Camp Summer 2024
Schedule available January 19, '24
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Scholarships Open January 17, '24
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Registration begins February 4, '24 @ 2 pm
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1st Week of BASE Camp June 17th
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A Sample of Our OPEF BASE Camps
We are currently planning for Summer 2024. Updated information for Summer 2024 will be available on the website in December 2023.
Science of Sweets
Biking Adventures
Experimentation Station
Shoe Drip & Apparel Art
Earth Ambassadors
Cardboard City
“My kids love OPEF’s BASE Camp. They have done the coolest things every summer with amazing teachers and staff. I can’t say enough about how lucky we are to have this program here in Oak Park”
— Oak Park Parent of Three
OPEF Is Excited to Offer Gift Cards for Camp!
To celebrate this, we are offering a special promotion-for the month of December 2023. Save 10% on your gift card purchase with the following code: BASEcampGIFT10. While this offer expires on Decmember 31st, these gift cards never do. Login or create an Amilia account below for full access to view and purchase gift cards for OPEF BASE Camp.