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February 4th, 2011
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January 31st, 2011
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As appeared in The Sac Bee – article about summer computer courses in CA
Summer computer camp gives kids hands-on learning experience
By Deia de Brito
Amanda Maurer has found a way to make endangered species come alive on her computer screen.
In her second week at iD Tech Camp, a private computer technology course at California State University, Sacramento, the 13-year-old is building an interactive website about endangered marine creatures like the Maui dolphin.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/22/2906835/summer-computer-camp-gives-kids.html#ixzz0uSKqMLms
July 22nd, 2010
Posted in: California State University, Sacramento, iD In The News, Uncategorized
CBS 13 Visits Our Sacramento Summer Camp
CBS 13 visited iD Tech Camps at Sac State on July 1, 2010. Click here to see iD Tech Camps in action!
July 1st, 2010
Posted in: California State University, Sacramento, iD In The News, Uncategorized
As appeared in The Journal & Courier – article about Indiana technology summer camp held at Purdue
Purdue connects with kids at technology summer camp
By Meranda Watling
When Tia Termini arrived at Purdue at the start of this week, the 10-year-old Gary resident had never built a website before.
On Thursday she was polishing off her first website — a collection of links to dog shelters — and by Friday, she was showing it off.
“We went step by step. The hardest thing I had to do was try to get it on the Internet,” Tia said, noting it was hard to remember and execute the several steps it took to move her creation from Photoshop to Firefox.
“I was expecting to learn how to build a website, but I didn’t expect to actually make one.”
Tia was one of about 20 young students visiting Purdue this week as part of the iD Tech Summer camp. In addition to a Web design class, students learned about computer programming and video game design during the weeklong camp.
“These are the kids turned on by technology and computers, so the idea is to get them excited by it now, so when they’re older they can transition to a career path,” said DJ Weymuth, camp director.
That’s exactly how it worked for Drew McTighe, who graduated from Purdue this year with a bachelor’s degree in computer graphic technology. McTighe is one of the camp’s teachers this summer.
“I was a camper a few years ago, and I liked it a ton,” he said. “As soon as I felt I knew enough, I applied to lead a class.”
He was leading the video game design course where students like Jean Luc Vallejo, a 13-year-old from East Chicago, were learning about game design and how to build something.
Jean Luc said he still had a lot to finish of his game on Thursday. He wanted his game, “Crazy Good,” which he said involved the army, to be better. He hopes to be able to come back to the camp next summer to improve it.
“I always thought it would be pretty cool to do game design,” he said. “I’m keeping it simple for now, but I want to build on it.”
Jack Walsh, 11, of Crown Point came to the camp to build on the skills he was already developing. But he’s learned a lot about Web design this week.
He created a site for his friend’s comics to be posted online.
“I made (a site) last year and I liked it,” he said. “I wasn’t really using software, just a website, to make it. So I learned pretty much everything from scratch here.”
June 26th, 2010
Posted in: iD In The News, Purdue University, Uncategorized
3rd Raffle Winner of a Free Week of Camp
iD Tech Camps wants to congratulate Robyn Duby! Robyn has won a free week of Day Camp for iD Tech Camps! Congratulations Robyn and We are happy to have you join the iD Family! Robyn is the third Camp Fair Raffle winner of the season. Stay tuned! We’ll be holding 1 more raffle and announcing future winners here!
Come see us at a camp fair event near you and enter for your chance to win! To find a camp fair in your area, simply click here or call our client service department at 1-888-709-TECH (8324), option 1.
- Team iD
April 2nd, 2010
Posted in: iD Tech Camps, Uncategorized
Super Mario Bros. Theme on Guitar!
Hey guys! I know these types of videos are all over the web but this one comes from my good friend and guitar prodigy, Gabe Deutsch and it is pretty rockin’:
Learn more about the Mario Bros. Theme song here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._theme
Learn about it’s composer, Koji Kondo, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dji_Kond%C5%8D
Rock on Gabe!
January 22nd, 2010
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Comic Book Creation at iD Tech Camps?
A parent recently posed this question to me:
Dear Pete, I am looking for a comic design camp for my son this summer, 2009. Can you please direct us to somthing in the Pittsburgh or the Philadelphia area of PA. Thank you for your attention to our inquiry. My son attending ID-Tech camp in summer 2007 and loved this course but it does not appear to be offered as of late. Mom in distress…
We do not specifically offer a comic design camp, but we have introduced a couple new courses that might fit the bill this year. Please check out our Create Your Own Adventures Course as well as our Graphic Arts Course–both are offered at most locations throughout the country, as well as at Carnegie Mellon University and Villanova University which are close to you.
Both courses offer some awesome content using some very relevant and fun platforms.
Hopefully this information helps. We hope to see you out at our summer camp.
Best,
Pete
June 16th, 2009 | Tags: computer camps, game design camps, Summer Camps
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iD On the Road: Training at Lake Forest College and Villanova University
Whew, it has been a while and I have a lot of catching up to do on my blog!
Since my last entry I have been to two staff trainings; Lake Forest College in Chicago and last weekend at Villanova University in the Philadelphia area. We take staff training very seriously and require all new staff attend training and once trainings are complete we will have trained approximately 300 staff and about half of them were in attendance at Villanova last week.
We cover a lot of ground in the several days that staff attend: teaching skills, risk management, our online tools and forums, safety procedures – but the most memorable part of training is teaching people how to have FUN at camp.
June 5th, 2009
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