Tot-Time, PlaySchool, KinderPrep
The City of Mountain View Recreation Division Preschool Program provides a recreation-based preschool program designed for preschool age children who are interested in gaining a true preschool experience. Our curriculum encourages age appropriate growth for each child to learn at their won pace through project time, indoor and outdoor play, circle time, play games and listen to stories.
Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts are girls just like you who have fun, make friends and discover new places! Girl Scouts go camping, visit museums, care for the environment, sell cookies, help people in the community, and participate in exciting events that change all the time.
Girl Scouting gives girls like you the chance to explore your world and have a lot of fun at the same time!
Boy Scouts
Cub Scouting is a year-round family program designed for boys who are about 7-10 years old. Parents, leaders, and organizations work together to achieve the purposes of Cub Scouting—citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness.
Boy Scouting is a year-round program for boys around ages 11-17. Through the Boy Scout program, young men can achieve the core objectives of strengthening character, personal fitness and good citizenship.
El Camino YMCA After school enrichment
The El Camino YMCA after school enrichment program offers children a balance of homework assistance, recreational, academic, and enrichment activities. This program compliments school in a manner that is fun and active for the child. The enrichment programs are run through Castro Elementary School and Theuerkauf Elementary School
Beyond the Bell
Beyond the Bell After School Program is offered at Crittenden Middle School, Castro Elementary, Landels Elementary, Monta Loma Elementary, and Theuerkauf Elementary. The program consists of various components including homework assistance, recreation activities, technology, and enrichment activities. This is a free after school program offered in cooperation with the Mountain View-Whisman School District.
Tween Time After School Program @ Graham Middle School
This program consists of Tween Time Recreation, and a School Homework Study Hall. Tween Time Recreation is staffed by trained Recreation Leaders who create a fun and safe environment for participating in recreation programming on site every day. Tween Time offers activities, sports, crafts, cooking, tournaments, games and more. The School Homework Study Hall is staffed by a school district instructional aide who will enforce a positive, interactive, yet quiet study environment.
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Mountain View Teen Center and Teen Open Gym
The Teen Center is open to middle school students to come hang out with their friends in a safe, fun environment! This free drop-in program is supervised by trained Recreation Leaders and offers a social atmosphere that includes billiard, air hockey, foosball, video games, board games, arts and crafts, and so much more!
Youth and Teens 11 to 18 years old are invited to attend Teen Open Gym at Whisman Sports Center located at 1500 Middlefield Rd. Teen Open Gym is open for School Year Hours every Saturday from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm (except holiday weekends). Recreation Staff offer a wide-variety of free activities, including basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer, ping pong and other gym sports. ID is required for admittance to the program.
Mountain View Academy INvolved Crowd
What’s one of the best ways to ensure a memorable high school experience? Join a club, student organization, or activity. You’ll expand your circle of friends, learn team building skills, and your memories of high school will be more than homework and tests. Get out and be a part of your peer community.
Saint Francis High School Activities
Whether you’re cheering in the Rage Cage at a Friday night football game, building a car for the Robotics Team, traveling to Ashland,Oregon with the Shakespeare Club, performing at the Night of Acoustics,writing an article for the school newspaper or hosting an afternoon radio show for KSFH 87.9, you will find all of our clubs and activities will give you a chance to showcase your talents, develop leadership skills and make life-lasting friends.
El Camino YMCA - Teen Programs
The YMCA provides teens with personal, academic, social and recreational opportunities in a safe and positive environment. Our goal is to help build developmental assets, enhance personal and social skills, develop leadership and responsibility, and promote self-esteem in young people so they can thrive.
Peninsula Youth Theatre
PYT is dedicated to providing outstanding theatrical learning experiences that develop leadership, emphasize responsibility and foster teamwork in a supportive, respectful environment. Have you always been interested in acting? Are you shy and need an activity that will give you confidence and make you more outgoing? Then the Peninsula Youth Theatre might be perfect for you.
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Mountain View High School Clubs
With over thirty clubs, from the Anime Club to Yearbook, if you're a student at Mountain View High School you have a great chance to find people who share your interests.
Mountain View Library Children and Teen Services
The library is a great resource for kids. There are programs like the Saturday Sampler for children 3-6 years-old. There's also the Teen Center, providing middle school and high school kids a resource for homework help, teen reading lists, and more.
Mountain View Recreation Division youth classes
Fun and creative classes and recreation for young people in three groups: preschool, elementary school and middle school/teens. Fees for some programs.
Mountain View Youth Sports Programs
Do you enjoy sports? Do you want to join a team? Mountain View has several programs serving the community. There’s a wide variety of sports and groups to choose from. Kidz Love Soccer, Skyhawks; Mountain View Little League, the Mountain View Marauders football teams, and the United States Youth Volleyball League are just a few. Check out the MV Youth Sports programs page to find out more.
Century Cinema 16
1500 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA 94043
650.961.3828
See the latest Hollywood blockbusters at Century Cinema 16.
Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) at Finn Center
230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Founded in 1968, CSMA is a nonprofit arts education center dedicated to providing "Arts for All." Offers year-round programs for all ages and levels, including lessons, classes, camps in music, visual and digital arts, arts-in-the-schools programs; and concerts, lectures, exhibits and community outreach events.
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. It is home to one of the largest international collections of computing artifacts in the world, encompassing computer hardware, ephemera, photographs, moving images, documents and software.
Laser Quest
Laser Quest is a fast paced game for ages 5 to 85 – a high tech combination of tag and hide and seek. With the world’s most advanced laser tag equipment available, Laser Quest is played in a large, multi-level arena with specialty lighting, fog and heart pounding music. Players, whether individually or on teams, use their lasers to tag their opponents’ sensors, and score as many points as possible. We have a value-packed membership program called Players’ Club for those who want to play and save. It is perfect for birthday parties, team parties, and day camps outings. We also have an exciting education program, The Quest for Knowledge, an interactive school field trip about lasers and mazes.
Moffett Field Museum
Displays aircraft models and artifacts. An actual P2 and P3 are outside the museum. Open Wed-Sat 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tours of the museum and tour of outside of Hanger 1. Call 650-903-6897.
PAL - Police Athletic League
Mountain View PAL’s mission is to foster mutual understanding between youth and police officers through a non-confrontational setting and, in this way, divert them away from gangs and criminal activity. MVPAL will be offering a large variety of recreational and leadership development activities to kids between the ages of 5 and 18.
Red Cross Club
The Red Cross Club is a great way for middle and high school students to help serve their school and local communities by learning skills such as CPR and first aid. Starting a Red Cross Club in your school will provide a variety of volunteer opportunities and a chance to learn valuable leadership skills.
Silicon Valley Soap Box Derby
If you're interested in racing then check out the Silicon Valley Soap Box Derby - a family oriented event in which children and their parents participate in the greatest amateur racing program in the world. The Soap Box Derby teaches youngsters teamwork, perseverance, the spirit of competition and basic construction skills. The program includes opportunities for all children including "super kids" - which pairs handicapped and non-handicapped kids in a competitive racing event. Soap Box Derby racing levels the playing field so all participants have a chance of winning the Big Prize at the end of the day regardless of their physical or mental capabilities. The 2009 race will be held the last weekend in May.
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City of Mountain View Skate Park
Looking to improve your skateboarding skills? Head over the Rengstorff Park and use the Skate Park. With a trick ramp, fun box, slider rail and other features you'll be grinding and catching air in no time.
City of Mountain View Aquatics Facilities
Swimming is great exercise and with Mountain View Aquatics you can join the Los Altos-Mountain View Aquatic Club, teenagers can be lifeguards or pool attendants. The Aquatics program has lots of opportunities for fun!
City Parks
The City of Mountain View is dedicated to providing open space and parks to the members of our community. You can run, climb, swing to the sky in many of the city parks. Explore the city, checking out the facilities at different parks and meeting new people.
Shoreline Golf Links
Located adjacent to San Francisco Bay in the City of Mountain View, California, Shoreline Golf Links is an eighteen-hole, championship-level golf course. The course is open for play - weather permitting - 364 days a year. If you are interested in taking golf lessons you can find out more here.
Mountain View Tennis
The City of Mountain View maintains 35 tennis courts located within 6 parks across the city. Most courts are available for walk on use from dawn till dusk. Rengstorff Tennis Courts feature 8 light courts. Cuesta Tennis Center features 12-light courts available for reservations and lessons. The Mountain View Tennis Club sponsors a junior tennis league for youth 18 years old and under in the spring and in the fall.
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