As appeared in the Toledo Blade –…
As appeared in the Ventura County Star…As appeared in the News and Observer – article about our NC summer camps
Technology camp builds app-titude
By Regina Wang
Chapel Hill — In this summer camp, rock climbing isn’t half as cool as creating a video game about rock climbing.
In a dimmed room where rows of computers replace ropes courses, campers – mostly boys – speak in programming language and make rampant jokes about Macs and PCs. Forget about swimming or building campfires, they spend intensive hours learning how to create iPhone apps, designing video games, and enjoying the camaraderie of fellow gamers.
“It’s a fun way to prepare you going into the industry,” said Ed Rayburn, 16, of Winston-Salem. “You don’t have to be a nerd.”
Technology-driven summer camps are growing in interest and size; iD Camps, a California company that runs the program in Chapel Hill, says it has gained 2,000 new campers this summer, boosting its overall enrollment to 20,000 nationally. The company rents classrooms on college campuses, such as Harvard, MIT and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Click here to read the full article about our summer camps in North Carolina
July 18th, 2011 | Tags: academic summer camps, programming camps, teen summer camps, web design
Posted in: College of William & Mary, Emory University, iD In The News, UNC Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University
It’s incredible how younger and younger kids are getting into web design and programming. It’s great to see there success. keep it real!