Tech Camp 2025
2025-07-15 09:00 - 2025-07-18 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Central Academy (DMPS), 1912 Grand Ave, Des Moines, Iowa, 50309, United States
Tech Camp is an immersive, invitation-only summer camp experience for central Iowa high school students. Since the first camp in 2013, a cohort of 8th or 9th grade students are invited each year with consideration given to socioeconomic status, gender and ethnicity/race. The new cohort, as well as the previous four cohorts, are invited to attend the one-week summer camp. Thus, many students in the program attend camp each year for up to five years as students who attend three or more years become eligible to receive a scholarship upon high school graduation.
During Tech Camp, students attend inspirational speaker sessions, technology exploration sessions and participate in other activities. Technology sessions are organized into tracks of software, hardware and physical computing or web development and media. Technologies and topics typically presented include, but are not limited to, Agile, Arduino, cloud computing, cybersecurity, engineering, game development, HTML/CSS/JS, machine learning, Python and robotics. All sessions are delivered by local technology professionals serving as volunteer speakers, facilitators and mentors. Students not only learn from and get to work alongside the professionals, but they get to engage with the professionals while discussing education, careers, jobs, motivations, skills, recommended resources and the like.

2025 Girls Who Code Des Moines Summer Camp
2025-08-13 09:00 - 2025-08-14 16:00
Code in community and learn about women in tech! Sponsored by SPS Commerce and ITA Group.

August 13 – 14, 2025
Girls Who Code (GWC) Des Moines is a program for students in grades six to twelve to build coding skills and community while learning about women in tech. A nationally recognized movement, GWC clubs are a sisterhood of supportive peers and role models using computer science to change the world. Participants build coding skills and community as they complete projects through an adaptive curriculum. Local female technology professionals serve as mentors, working with the students at camp and during monthly club meetups throughout the year.
The Girls Who Code Des Moines 2025 Summer Camp will take place on Wednesday, August 13 and Thursday, August 14, 2025, from 9am to 4pm each day at a location to be determined. No coding experience is necessary to participate. Students will be divided into beginner and experienced groups. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Requirements:

Students in grades six to twelve,
A Girls Who Code club account (see below), and
Commitment to daily attendance.

As a free camp with limited seats, Tech Journey desires to give priority to students who can commit to attending both days of the learning activity. Please do not register a student who cannot participate each day.
Register today at eventbrite.
For a Girls Who Code club account, go to https://clubs-hq.girlswhocode.com/login and click the Sign up option. Follow the prompts and enter IA51381 when asked for a club ID.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions.
Special thanks to SPS Commerce & ITA Group for support of our Girls Who Code camp.

Tech Camp 2026
2026-07-14 09:00 - 2026-07-17 16:00 | Central Academy (DMPS), 1912 Grand Ave, Des Moines, Iowa, 50309, United States
