iD in the News

VIDEO: “The Minecraft Phenomenon”

CCTV News (2:28 minute spot)

VIDEO: “Summer camp for kid techies”

CNET CBS TV National News (1:32 minute spot)

VIDEO: “Build iPhone apps at summer camp!”

CNN Money (3:00 minute spot)

VIDEO: “Youngsters learn app-making skills at camp”

ABC TV National News (2:00 minute spot)

VIDEO: “AU Hosts High-Tech Summer Camp”

NBC TV News (1:46 minute spot)

Computer Camp: No Canoes, Just Coding (and Kickball)

by George Anders

“Michael Matias traveled 7,400 miles to camp this summer. Usually the 15-year-old computer enthusiast finds plenty to do in Tel Aviv, his hometown. But when a friend won renown as a hotshot programmer after attending a California tech camp, Michael and his parents made camp a key part of their trip to the U.S. in July.”

Bloomberg Businessweek

Kids develop video games, apps at ‘Tech Camp’

by Karen Kucher

“Sitting at his computer, Thomas Nielsen was immersed in a video game, an imaginary world where a tiny purple squid named Inky battled the King Tomato, the Strawberry Queen and evil turnips. But Thomas wasn’t playing the game — he was creating it.”

San Diego Union-Tribune

When the Tech Guy Is 13 (or Even 10)

by David H. Freedman

“Donald Garner Jr. was at his auto-salvage lot shooting the breeze last year when a customer mentioned that her nine-year-old twin sons had just gotten back from computer camp. Great skill to have, said Mr. Garner, who went on to complain about how much he was going to have to pay a pro to build a decent Web site. Why not ask her boys to do it?”

The New York Times

Budding techies spend their summer at app camp

by Ellen Lee

“Samantha Johnson won’t have a sunburn or mosquito bites to show for her time at camp this summer. But the 11-year-old will take home something else – an iPhone app called “Cupcakes vs. Bunnies” that she developed herself.”

SF Chronicle