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Camp EdTech
Make your summer, make digital media art! Camp EdTech teaches entering 5th-9th graders how to create their own video games, digital movies, photographs, soundtracks, graphic designs, and animations. Taught by industry pros and designed by Edventure More in partnership with the Children’s Creativity Museum, the Bay Area’s premier digital arts museum. Every week includes a specialized digital media theme, camper contests, art show or movie screening!
WHERE: Camp EdTech has 10 Bay Area locations: Larkspur, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Burlingame, Cupertino, Los Altos, Alameda, Oakland and Moraga. Marin location: Hall Middle School, 200 Doherty Drive, Larkspur
WHEN: Camp runs June 4-August 3, dates vary by location. 9:00 am–3:00 pm (M—F). Optional extended care: AM Care (8:00–9:00 am); PM Care (3:00–6:00 pm)
AGES: Entering 5th-9th grades
ACTIVITIES: Campers can choose to do a one-week Studio Session to learn fundamental techniques, or a two-week Pro Session to complete a larger project that builds on what they learned in their Studio Session week. Each Camp EdTech day include Tech Lab Stations, Outdoor Recreation, optional Revolution Foods Lunch, optional Extended Care, plus “Tech Specs” sheets with a run down of the day and additional resources to continue creating at home. Each Camp EdTech week includes a specialized digital media theme, camper contests, art show or movie screening, FREE museum passes, The EdTech Challenge, 8:1 camper to staff ratio, a camper t-shirt, and a 2GB USB drive.
COST: $419-$479 per week. Prices may vary slightly by location. Early Bird, Multi-Week, Referral and Sibling Discounts. Extended Care option available. 50% off Extended Care with 3+ weeks.
DETAILS: 2012 Camp EdTech Studio & Pro Sessions:
- 2-D Game Design: Create video games that can be played on your computer or turned into an iPhone app.
- 3-D Game Design: Create your own first person player game and a three dimensional virtual world.
- Digital Photography: Learn how to use a digital SLR camera and Photoshop to capture your perspective.
- Fashion Graphics: Design a clothing brand, identity, logo, and clothing graphics that represent your style.
- Animation: Use advanced techniques of roto-scoping, green screening and time lapse video to create a short animated movie.
- Movie Star: Write, act, direct and edit your own live-action short film with friends.
Camp Edmo Animation
By Zach Werner, 5th Grade, Hall Middle School
Hey, how often do you get to make up your own business, develop a logo using computer graphics and advertise that business on full color posters and your own business cards? At Camp EdTech I learned computer graphics and design; basics the first week in a studio session, and pro the second week. We spent time as a group discussing ideas that interested us, and our instructor helped us narrow our ideas and made sure no two groups worked on the same project. Working with a partner assigned by our instructor, we started right away working on computers learning some basic stuff, and by the end of the first week we had made our project come to life. In the second week, EdTech Pro, it was even more fun because we got to learn and use Microsoft Word and Power Point. To make our projects even better we got to use the Internet to get pictures! I learned so much that I use for fun and school projects. Anyone who is interested in computers and graphics should go to Camp EdTech.
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