Camp organizers are aware their clients are kids. Hey, it's summer. We don't give them pressure. ACE's counselors periodically invite kids to take a break for some outdoor sports or to play in a swimming pool, although hard core computer fanatics are excused to keep pecking away at their keyboards. At iDTech the fresh-air breaks are mandatory.
Life exists outside of computers.
It gets anti-productive after a while. Both ACE and iDTech try to keep fun in the classroom as well. David Edasery, the Long Island boy who camped with ACE, programmed a virtual house that changed routines by the hour. He made a digital film in which a mischievous towel secretly changes poker players' cards. College and graduate students majoring in computer science make up the majority of counselors at the camps.