Computer camp

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A computer camp is a summer camp which focuses on computer instruction. These camps usually operate on college campuses during the summer months due to the availability of housing, computer labs, and dining facilities. Campers are usually between 8-18 years old.

An early computer camp, National Computer Camps (NCC) National Computer Camps, was launched by Michael Zabinski, Ph.D., a professor of Physics and Engineering at Fairfield University, and his wife Toby, in a junior high school in Orange, Connecticut in 1977. It later moved to the idyllic Westminster Prep School campus in Simsbury, CT, which provided a much more focused and isolated camp-like feel for the attendees. Today, numerous companies operate computer camps, many of which have multiple campuses.

The first Computer Camp that included traditional camping activities like horseback riding, canoes and campfires was started by Denison Bollay in 1980. It was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that summer, inspiring thousands of kids to learn more about computers and software. The camp combined hundreds of computers, early robots, and new computer languages like ExperLogo.

Computer camps teach courses in a wide range of subjects such as hardware, networking, programming, game design, image manipulation, video production, web design, robotics, A+ and Network+ certification preparation, and software applications including office and productivity suites, HTML and web editors, video editors, and 3D and 2D animation and graphics programs. Although computers are the main focus, camps also offer sports and recreation programs.