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And you’re trying to get an A every single time. We get it, because we’re doing the same thing. ProjectKids exists to take the thinking off your plate: where your kids should be on every day off school, and how to make it work around your job.
Parenting today is a logistics job. School ends at 3. Work doesn’t. And the school year is full of days your kids are home and you aren’t: teacher workdays, conference days, Thanksgiving, two weeks at winter break, a week in spring, then the whole summer.
Every one of those days needs a plan, and every plan starts with research: which camps run that day, which fit your hours, which still have room, which your kid will actually like. All at different locations, different prices and different registration windows.
Now multiply that by two kids. Or three. Different ages, different interests, different schedules. And somehow it all has to fit into one family's calendar, one family's budget, and one parent's car.
That's the part nobody's solving. Every other camp site out there is a directory. Search, filter, bookmark, good luck. They made it easier to find camps. They didn't touch the actual problem — which is making it all work.
We didn’t set out to build another camp directory. We set out to build a planner that does the thinking for you: it knows your district’s days off, your kids and your work hours, and it shows our pick for each day off, and exactly what it leaves uncovered when nothing fits. Want a different one? Tap Show another.
How it plans is no secret. The planner follows clear rules. It checks each camp’s dated sessions against the days you need, scores the fit for your hours, your kids’ ages and interests, your budget and the drive from home, and keeps siblings’ drop-offs close together. Then it shows you its pick and why.
Camp Finder, our voice and chat assistant, uses the same planner. It asks about your kids and your dates, then hands you the plan the planner would.
What sets us apart
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A 5-year-old and a 12-year-old don't just need different camps — they need different kinds of experiences. We factor in age-appropriate variety, not just age eligibility. The goal isn't filling weeks. It's building a summer that gives your kid what they actually need at this stage.
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If you have three kids, you don't have three separate scheduling problems. You have one family-sized puzzle. We think about proximity between camps, overlapping drop-off windows, and whether the same organization runs programs for different age groups — so you're not living in your car.
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The perfect camp means nothing if it adds 45 minutes to your morning. Distance isn't a nice-to-have filter — it's a constraint that shapes everything. We treat it that way.
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Eight weeks of the same soccer camp isn't a summer plan. Kids need variety — creative weeks, physical weeks, slower weeks. We build plans with balance in mind, not just availability.
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Planning the days off usually lands on one parent, on top of everything else. We’re not here to add another task to your list. We’re here to take one off.
We check camps with break and summer programs every week, and the rest about once a month. An AI model helps read each page for session dates, prices, age ranges, hours and enrollment status, straight from the camp’s own site. When something can’t be confirmed, we label it instead of guessing.
The planner is rules, not a language model. It scores each camp’s sessions against your days, hours, kids, budget and drive, and builds a week-by-week plan you can check line by line.
Camp Finder is the conversational way in: a voice and chat assistant that asks the questions, then calls that same planner.
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Camps listed
652
Sessions tracked
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Activity categories
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In-season camp checks
We don’t charge parents. Not for searching, not for planning, not for Camp Finder. No premium tier, no “unlock full results” paywall.
We take a different approach. We're building a knowledge base — not just of camps, but of what actually works for families. What combinations of activities keep kids engaged. What scheduling patterns reduce stress. What age-appropriate variety looks like in practice. That knowledge has value, and we'll find ways to sustain the platform without putting a price tag between parents and the help they need.
This was a deliberate choice. The families who need this most — single parents, families juggling multiple kids, parents who can't take a day off to research camps — are the last ones who should be paying for it.
Trust
All camps are listed the same way. We don't accept money to rank one camp above another. Results are based on fit, not ad spend.
Every listing is scraped directly from the camp's own website. We don't rely on third-party feeds or user submissions. When we can't verify something, we say so.
When pricing hasn't been confirmed for the current season or a field is missing, we label it. You'll always know what's verified and what's pending.
This isn't a venture play by people who don't have kids. We built this because we needed it. The frustration is personal. The solution is too.
Because kids are a project. The best project you'll ever work on — and the one you never turn in. Not when they're 5, not when they're 15, not when they're 25. You're always trying to get it right. We named it that because we wanted to be honest about what this actually is: an ongoing, never-finished, always-evolving effort to give your kids the best possible version of growing up. And we're here to help you do it.
Currently available in
Portland, Denver & Houston
More cities on the way. Get updates from ProjectKids, including when we add cities.
You figure out dinner. We’ll figure out the days off.