Tech Camp 2022 will take place Tuesday July 19 through Friday July 22, 2022 at the historic Franklin Junior High in Des Moines.
Are you a central Iowa technology professional who desires to make an impact with high school students? If so, we need you! The role of a Tech Camp mentor is to be present and encourage the students as they progress through the facilitator’s content. Mentors don’t need to be an expert on the session topic, just willing to help the students. Sign up today for one or more sessions, either full or half days.
Inspiring high school students to explore technology
One camp. 4 days. 20+ sessions. 100+ students. 60+ volunteers. Infinite impact.
Tech Camp is an immersive annual summer camp experience for central Iowa students in grades 8 through 12. A cohort of 8th or 9th grade students are invited with consideration given to socioeconomic status, gender and ethnicity. The new cohort, as well as the previous four cohorts, are invited each year to attend the one-week summer camp.
Each year at Tech Camp students attend inspirational keynote sessions, technology learning sessions and other activities including a closing ceremony and reception where they can demonstrate projects they worked on. Technology learning sessions are grouped into three tracks: software development, hardware and physical computing and web development and media. Example technologies and topics presented include, but are not limited to, Agile, Arduino, cloud computing, cybersecurity, game development, HTML/CSS/JS, machine learning and Python.