The programs will fire your imagination, stretch your mind, and set you on the path to achieving your goals. You’ll experience multiple aspects of architecture and environmental design. Engage in a transformational learning experience with highly skilled instructors and professionals. Apply early as seats fill up quickly.

• Explore architecture and related areas

• Develop technical and design skills

• Imagine, create, and build your designs

• Collaborate with other creative teens

• Experience a college campus

• Earn a certificate of completion from UC Berkeley

• High school students entering 10th and 11th grade

• July 14-25, 2025

Imagine, design, and build a mini golf course using state-of-the-art tools in the College of Environmental Design’s wood and metal shop and digital fabrication lab. You collaborate on a small team to create one mini golf hole. Get creative with themed environments, tunnels, bridges, buildings, windmills, tubes, ramps, characters and other engaging elements and obstacles.

• High school students entering 12th grade

• July 7 – Aug 1, 2025

• Commuter and overnight option

This engaging college-level program offers students the chance to study at the top-ranked public university for architecture and the built environment. Challenging design assignments, one-on-one reviews with instructors, field trips around the Bay Area, and a design/build project for a community nonprofit introduce you to the skills, ideas, and culture of an environmental design education. You’ll leave the program with a strong portfolio for your college applications in any area of environmental design and credit on an official UC Berkeley transcript.