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10 Seasons Later, Why Keep Reinventing?
We know you count on us to pave the way. This summer will be no exception. Our coveted leadership position in the summer camp industry is one we take seriously. Our ideas are inspired by evaluations from last season's campers, parents, instructors and directors. We've also conducted extensive interviews with many companies and attended trade shows all over the country in endless pursuit of introducing the most compelling technology experience available. Now celebrating our 10th season, iD Tech Camps, along with iD Spain, iD Film Academy, iD Gaming Academy and Ultimate Gaming Weekends has established an amazingly loyal following which has made us the largest, most recommended technology program of our kind.
What's New?
New 2008 Catalogs are ready! Are you on our list?
iD Tech Camps, iD Gaming Academy, iD Spain, iD Film Academy
Save $50 with Sibling & Multi-Week Discounts!
We have increased our Sibling & Multi-Week Discounts! Save $50 per additional week!
New Locations & Dates
Over 50 university locations with many new sites. Stanford. MIT. UCLA. Find a location near you!
New Camp Videos & Webmercials
What’s camp like? Just sitting behind computers all day? No way!
Big Curriculum Overhaul
The collaborative brainpower of 500 instructors! The most significant overhaul at iD in the past 10 seasons.
iD Tech Camps Courses: Ages 7-17
30 courses—many of them new. 50 University locations. New software and age prerequisites.
iD Gaming Academy: Ages 13-17
New Camp Fatal1ty® and a new Game Programming course. New gaming titles including Epic Games™ – creators of Unreal Tournament® 3 and Unreal® Engine.
iD Spain: Ages 14-17
We’ve added a new track! ¡Olé! Perfect for new AND returning students.
iD Film Academy: Ages 13-17
Brand-new program this season! Use San Francisco as your back drop. Learn from pro filmmakers.
Ultimate Gaming Weekends: Ages 13-17
New! It’s here! Stay the weekend and get your game on!
Refer-a-Friend and Save!
We’ve automated this process and made it easy! Refer your friends. You’ll save money and your friend will too!
Carpool to Summer Camp!
Getting to camp just got a whole lot easier!
CEO's Blog
Weekly posts from iD’s CEO. What’s on Pete’s mind? iD Greening? IT Careers? Gaming Trends?
NVIDIA®-Hosted Gaming Tournaments
New Games! Teen Gaming Tournaments will showcase the industry's hottest teen games including our featured game, Unreal Tournament® 3. We use NVIDIA GeForce® gaming cards for peak gaming performance. Play BIG titles from Epic Games®, Activision®, Blizzard® Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Microsoft® GameStudios™ and more. Games rated “T” for Teen and "M" for Mature may be used and will be selected at the sole discretion of iD. Note: Tournaments DO NOT infringe on instructional time.
New Pre-Teen Gaming Tournaments
New tournaments for the younger crowd are here! Games are rated "E" for Everyone and "T" for Teen and selected at the sole discretion of iD. Note: Tournaments DO NOT infringe on instructional time.
New Camp Activities
We’re continuing to add cool new activities to the line up, so check back soon. Students can enjoy Guitar Hero III™, Dance-Dance-Revolution™, Wowwee Robotics™ Roboquad™ activities, Techno-Sports, chess, basketball, soccer, Ultimate Frisbee and more. Rest assured that we will continue to strike the right balance between instructional and recreational time—including fun physical exercise.
Tech Products
In the off-season, we test many new hardware products and software programs. Our reputation has attracted the top names in technology: Adobe®, Apple®, Canon®, HP®, Macromedia®, Microsoft®, (and many others) as well as some rising stars we are eager to debut this season.
New and Returning Staff
We often smile when parents ask us, "So what do you do in the off-season?" Truly, there is no off-season for the full-time staff at iD Tech Camps. We work all year long to coordinate and implement the most amazing technology experience in the country.
All of our Regional Managers were at one time Camp Directors for iD Tech Camps. Our Regional Managers have come up through the ranks, and know what a great camp should look and feel like. Each Regional Manager actively manages a handful of locations - hiring only the sharpest, well-educated, enthusiastic summer staff - stemming mostly from those universities where we hold our camps - MIT, Stanford, UCLA, etc.
Distinguishing ourselves from most summer camps, we've respectfully created a policy of "No Counselors-in-Training" (CITs). This guarantees that each student is instructed AND supervised exclusively by paid adult staff 18 years of age and older. CITs, we feel, can be an asset to some camps, but not iD Tech Camps. We do not want to cut corners by cutting payroll and quality. We recruit industry professionals, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates majoring in Film, Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Media Arts, Game Development, and other related fields. Many of our older teenage campers want to work for iD Tech Camps. We encourage them to do so once they are in college.
Our summer staff is our bread-and-butter. We pay the best and maintain the smallest ratios in the industry. Each winter and spring we interview thousands of candidates, then hand-select those that meet our criteria. We select only the best minds. And then we train them IN PERSON (a major point of distinction). And then we test them. And then we train them again (IN PERSON). And then we evaluate them on a weekly basis. Our quality philosophy has invigorated our summer staff - leading a great portion of them to return each season. They enjoy the personal attention they can deliver to each student by having an average of just 6 students per staff.
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