Our vision is to provide a nurturing and enriching environment for the community the Two Rivers Camp serves.

This program provides a two-week educational experience in the summer when children are out of school to underserved and migrant children ages 4-12 who often do poorly in K-12. These children, as high school graduates,  have a lower college attendance rate. In addition, many of our campers are on the school lunch program, we provide a nutritious lunch for each child.

We serve children in Stanislaus County. In the last Census, the population in Stanislaus County is considered by the USDOT as having all six disadvantaged indicators: Transportation Access disadvantage, Health disadvantage, Environmental disadvantage, Economic disadvantage, Resilience disadvantage, and Equity disadvantage.  

We know that 20% of children in this community do not know where their next meal comes from and often go hungrier in the summer than during school. We also know that the community does not offer a  summer STEM program of this size to underserved migrant families. In Stanislaus County, 25% of migrant children meet the UC/CSU requirements, while the combined average of remaining students is 40%. We hope to give young children an opportunity to find interest in STEM topics to spark a light of interest in higher education all while giving them the comfort of not worrying about food. 

We have three different measures of success; we ask all the children at the beginning of camp if they can be scientists and ask them the same question at the end of the two-week program. We also ask parents if their children have any new interest in school or home activities in STEM subjects. Our last measurement is a long-term measure of success to see if the child entered high school with a keen interest in any STEM subjects.