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Summer Camp Staff Appreciation Grand Finale

We’re now in our final day of the summer camp Staff Appreciation Raffle (SAP)!  Can you believe is the last day of iD Computer Camps?  As a reminder, we’d like to give a huge thank you to all the staff this summer who have done an amazing job running our awesome summer camp and making differences in the lives of our students.  Working at camp is hard work.  The hours are often long.  Technical issues come up.  You learn our curriculum, serve as a parent and mentor, play with and guide the students, deliver customized instruction–and you do it week in and week out with grace and a smile.

Remember, the Staff Appreciation program was put in place this year with one goal in mind:  Great Camps = Happy Campers.  Happy campers are created one day at a time, 1-on-1.  You are integral to making iD the best it can be, and all of you deserve to win one of our Staff Raffle prizes.

Yesterday, we announced the winners of the

5 Megabyte Prize:

5 Nintendo Wii Systems.  Please see my previous post to view the winners.

So, what about today?

The winners were chosen at random, by me, with several witnesses–our full time crew in the background .

5 Terabyte Prize:  Round trip flight vouchers in the Continental U.S. Some flight restrictions/black out dates may apply. Note:  iD will strictly follow all necessary tax, federal, and state guidelines.

And, the winners are…

And, please remember, this isn’t about winning a prize!  This whole appreciation raffle is about rewarding and recognizing you, our summer staff crew, for running the best summer technology camps in the country.  Without you, iD would not be.

We’ll be blogging throughout the fall, so be sure to continually check back at http://internaldrive.com/ for updated job postings, cool announcements, and everything that’s new with iD.  FYI-  We’ll be accepting summer job applications starting in December!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for a great summer!

Thanks for flying iD Air!

Be safe this fall.  Look after each other.  Remember, you personally impacted a lot of students–and the planet is a better place (and a lot more tech savvy) because of you!

Sincerely,

Pete and the Rest of Team iD

Special thanks:  This is Ruth.  Ruth managed the day to day of the SAP program.  It was a lot of work.  (Ruth, you were great to work with, and I thank you for helping me so much this summer).  She kept the program fair, provided timely feedback to each camp, and instilled her spirit and internalDrive into the program.  Thanks, Ruth!  And, we also thank the Marketing team and RM team for their feedback in making sure the program materialized this year.

 

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Summer Camp Staff Appreciation Day 2!

We’re now in our 2nd day of the summer camp Staff Appreciation Raffle (SAP)!  As I said yesterday, we’d like to give a huge thank you to all the staff this summer who have done an amazing job running camp and making differences in the lives of our students.  Working at camp is hard word.  The hours are often long.  Technical issues come up.  You learn our curriculum, serve as a parent and mentor, play with and guide the students, deliver customized instruction–and you do it week in and week out with grace and a smile.

Remember, the Staff Appreciation program was put in place this year with one goal in mind:  Great Camps = Happy Campers.  Happy campers are created one day at a time, 1-on-1.  You are integral to making iD the best it can be, and all of you deserve to win one of our Staff Raffle prizes.

Yesterday, we announced the winners of the

5 Megabyte Prize:

5 Nintendo Wii Systems

So, what about today?

The winners were chosen at random, by me, with several witnesses–our full time crew in the background .

5 Gigabyte Prize:

Gift Card at Apple Store which can buy you Apple product such as an iPhone, 80 Gb iPod or Apple TV.

Note:  iD will strictly follow all necessary tax, federal, and state guidelines.

And, the winners are…

Congratulations, all!  Remember to check back here tomorrow for the next round of the SAP Raffle.

And, please remember, this isn’t about winning a prize!  This whole appreciation raffle is about rewarding and recognizing you, our summer staff crew, for running the best summer technology camps in the country.  Without you, iD would not be.

See ya tomorrow!

 

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Summer Camp Staff Appreciation Day 1!

It’s time to start the Staff Appreciation Raffle!  First off, we’d like to give a huge thank you to all the staff this summer who have done an amazing job running computer camp and making differences in the lives of our students.  Working at camp is hard work.  The hours are often long.  Technical issues come up.  You learn our curriculum, serve as a parent and mentor, play with and guide the students, deliver customized instruction–and you do it week in and week out with grace and a smile.

Remember, the Staff Appreciation program was put in place this year with one goal in mind:  Great Summer Camps = Happy Campers.  Happy campers are created one day at a time, 1-on-1.  You are integral to making iD the best it can be, and all of you deserve to win one of our Staff Raffle prizes.

So, let’s get down to business, shall we?

Just to give you guys a reminder, here are the prizes:

5 Megabyte Prize:

Today we raffled off 5 Nintendo Wii Systems.  The winners were chosen at random, by me, with 20 witnesses–our full time crew in the background (and three staff members who stopped by from UCLA–500 miles away–to try to “influence” the results.  Sorry guys, nice try though!)

And the winners are…

Congratulations to you five!  Each of you will be mailed your Wii by Ruth, here in the main office.

We’ll be pulling winners for the next 3 days so check back to the blog daily to see if you’ve won.  And, please remember, this isn’t about winning a prize!  This whole appreciation raffle is about rewarding and recognizing you, our summer staff crew, for running the best summer technology camps in the country.  Without you, iD would not be.

Have a great day!

-Big Pete

 

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Cool FX Project

This link was just sent to me.  This is a cool Special Effects camp project!  It is worth viewing.  I love how the group worked independently, but also as a group, to come up with a cohesive, inspiring short.  Nice work to the “crew” and their instructor!

Check out the movie on You Tube.

Have a great day!

 

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The Summer Camp Season is Winding Down

Our last two summer camps are in session this week: Columbia University, Stanford University and the UCLA iD Gaming Academy. It is a little astonishing to think that we were just preparing materials, conducting summer staff trainings, ramping up all camps, preparing gaming tournaments–just a few months ago. Now, of our 50 locations throughout the U.S., it is all coming to an end. But, for us, preparations for 2008 are already underway and we’ve got A LOT of work to do–that will never change. We’ve been logging away evaluations and feedback from parents, campers and staff–and we certainly are aiming high for the 2008 computer camp season. Many suggestions that have been made over the course of the summer are already in the queue. We’ll be launching our 2008 season on November 1, 2007. So, check back periodically to our website often. I’ll continue to blog through the fall and into the new year, so be sure to keep up with all the latest iD gossip. You’ll find topics like What’s New, Jobs & Careers in High-Tech, What it Takes, iD Tech Camps, iD Spain, iD Gaming Academy, iD OnSite, Corporate Partner Highlights, Crazy Photos, Staff Highlights, Press Releases…you get the iDea!

Did you know that in 2008 we’ll be celebrating iD’s 10th season? It all started here in our little mountain office in the hills

above Silicon Valley.

A lot has changed in 10 seasons. A lot hasn’t changed. We are indebted to our staff. No staff = no camps. We are indebted to our full time, year round employees, and handful of temps that help us organize, anticipate and execute the iD vision all year long. I am grateful to our loyal campers and parents. Without you, there would be no camp to staff. At the end of the day, we all report in to you, our clients. You are the “big boss.” We thank

you for giving us the opportunity to serve you!

Summer Staff Appreciation Raffle

Tomorrow, we’ll be announcing the staff raffle winners here on the blog at http://internaldrive.com/ so stay tuned!

Good luck!

-Big Pete

PS:

We had some crazy sun reflecting off a car today, it projected from 200 yards away, up through the 3rd story of our building. It came in right through the window behind me like a laser beam, and projected some cool images up on the wall. No special FX here. Nope! Just good old fashioned timing.

Can you find me? Mighty Mouse? Shreck?

 

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