iD Visual Arts Academy at Stanford University

iD Visual Arts Academy (iDVAA) for ages 13-18

TWO-WEEKS | CO-ED | OVERNIGHT ONLY | TEEN ONLY
INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY, WEB

iDVAA students stay and study at Stanford University.  Learn documentary filmmaking, professional photography or professional web design during your two-week stay.

NEW!  iDVAA students ages 13-18 can now receive Continuing Education Credit and an official transcript from Stanford Continuing Studies.

The Stanford campus and surrounding areas provide a beautiful backdrop for student projects with the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the Exploratorium, cable cars, Pier 39 and North Beach just a short train ride away.  Receive professional instruction and use industry-standard software and hardware.  Continue to step 2 for course availability. Or scroll down for an overview of our other programs at Stanford.

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Additional Tech Programs at Stanford

iD Tech Camps, Ages 7-17

WEEKLONG | CO-ED | DAY CAMPS | OVERNIGHT CAMPS
COURSE TOPICS: VIDEO GAME DESIGN, PROGRAMMING, WEB DESIGN, & MORE

We’re celebrating our 10th season as the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier summer computer camp destination. Design a 2D or 3D video game! Build a web site in Flash®, program a robot, and edit your own video with the best brand name products from Adobe®, Apple®, Autodesk®, Microsoft® and more.  Our popular day camps and overnight camps at UC Berkeley boast an average 6 students per instructor.  You can register for one or several weeks of our summer camps and experience the college campus!

iD Gaming Academy, Ages 13-18

TWO-WEEKS | CO-ED | OVERNIGHT ONLY | TEEN ONLY

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT

The iD Gaming Academy offers a 2-week intensive program in the dynamic worlds of game development, game programming and level design. Academy courses are geared for beginning to advanced teens ages 13-18. Using industry-standard applications like Autodesk® Maya®, Adobe® Photoshop® and XNA™ for the Xbox 360®, our teen video game development camp is taught by top instructors with game development portfolios. Students also tour a major game development studio.

iD Programming Academy, Ages 13-18

TWO-WEEKS | CO-ED | OVERNIGHT ONLY | TEEN ONLY

INTENSIVE COMPUTER PROGRAMMING & APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

The iD Programming Academy offers 2-week sessions of intensive study in computer science programming. Gain a deep understanding of application development–and a broader knowledge of how programming can be applied to the real world. The iD Programming Academy is perfect for students with previous programming experience who are looking to take their code to a whole different level.

Stanford CS Faculty on the iD Advisory Board: Please note that the iD Programming Academy is an independent organization, but we have Faculty from the Stanford Computer Science Department on our advisory board.

Getting to Campus: Our specific location on campus at this California summer camp, along with maps and driving directions, will be found in your Camp Account after you register. The closest airports to Stanford University are San Jose International and San Francisco International. Both are a 20-30 minute drive. Alternately, you can take Cal Train to the Palo Alto stop.

Continuing Education Credits: Continuing Education Credits are available from Stanford Continuing Studies (SCS) for $90 per session.   The credits will go on file at Stanford upon successful completion of a course at the iD Visual Arts Academy, and a transcript will be mailed out to the participant.  Continuing Studies offers a credit awarding – transcript generation service to academic programs at Stanford University.

What are the benefits/objectives of awarding Continuing Education Credits?

• Encourage students to utilize educational resources to meet their personal and educational goals.
• Assist with pre-college advanced placement through proof of related work.
• Demonstrate that the participant has completed course content with college level difficulty.
• Enable individuals to have an accurate source of their current CEU activity with tracked proof of completion (Certified Certificate of Completion) by an accredited University program.
• Note:  CEUs are not transferable as college credit.

If you are interested in purchasing the credits, you must register for a session of the iD Visual Arts Academy.  Once you are enrolled, you can purchase the credits through  your Camp Account or over the phone.

Stanford Facts

Mascot: The Stanford Cardinal

Founded: 1891

Schools at Stanford University: Stanford University consists of 7 schools: School of Humanities and Sciences, School of Engineering, School of Earth Sciences, School of Education, Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Student Population: Stanford has approximately 6,500 undergraduate, 1,000 professional, and 10,000 graduate students in 2008. Females comprised 48.9% of the undergraduates and 37.6% of professional and graduate students. The retention rate for freshman in 2007 was 98.3%. The 4-year graduation rate is 79.4%, and the 6-year rate is 94.4%. The low 4-year graduation rate is a function of the University’s Co-Term program, which allows students to earn a Masters degree as an extension of their undergraduate term.

Rankings: Stanford University’s undergraduate program is ranked fourth among national universities by U.S. News and World Report. Stanford is ranked second among world universities and second among universities in the Americas by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s system, seventeenth among world universities in the THES – QS World University Rankings,second among “global universities” by Newsweek,and in the first-tier among national universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance. The Stanford Law School is ranked third in the nation while its Education School and Business School are both ranked second. Forbes ranked the Stanford Graduate School of Business on the top on its 2009 “Best Business Schools” list. Stanford School of Medicine is currently ranked sixth in research according to U.S. News and World Report. The acceptance rates for all Stanford schools (undergraduate, graduate, and professional) are amongst the lowest (if not the lowest) in the United States.

Athletics: Stanford participates in the NCAA’s Division I-A and is a member of the Pacific-10 (Pac-10) Conference. It also participates in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for indoor track (men and women), water polo (men and women), women’s gymnastics, women’s lacrosse, men’s gymnastics, and men’s volleyball. Women’s field hockey team is part of the NorPac Conference.[94] Stanford’s traditional sports rival is the University of California, Berkeley, its neighbor to the north in the East Bay.

Distinguished Alumni and Personnel: Stanford alumni founded companies including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, NVIDIA, SGI, VMware, MIPS Technologies, Yahoo!, Google, and Sun Microsystems. The Sun in Sun Microsystems originally stood for “Stanford University Network.” Stanford’s current community of scholars includes: 18 Nobel Prize laureates; 135 members of the National Academy of Sciences; 82 members of National Academy of Engineering; 224 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 21 recipients of the National Medal of Science; three recipients of the National Medal of Technology; 26 members of the National Academy of Education; 41 members of American Philosophical Society; 4 Pulitzer Prize winners; 23 MacArthur Fellows; 7 Wolf Foundation Prize winners; 7 Koret Foundation Prize winners; 7 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners. NFL quarterbacks Jim Plunkett and John Elway, NFL receiver Gordon Banks, MLB left-fielder Carlos Quentin, Grand Slam winning tennis players (doubles) Bob and Mike Bryan, professional golfer Tiger Woods and U.S. President Herbert Hoover are alumni.