One camp. 4 days. 100+ students. 60+ volunteers. Infinite impact.
Inspiring high school students to explore technology
Tech Camp 2020 was like no other activity for Tech Journey as it was all online. Regardless, students were given the opportunity to learn from and work with a diverse group of passionate and successful technologists. During Tech Camp 2020, students participated in two general/keynote sessions and two learning sessions over the four days. Learning sessions included introductory and advanced topics such as coding basics, Python, web development, game development, electronics and an information security capture the flag challenge to name a few.
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.