They come home with survival skills, too, not for the wilderness but for the technological age. Most of the kids attending camp have used computers since elementary school. Needless to say, some of the campers regularly bail out their annoyingly computer illiterate parents. What they learn at the camp can be equivalent to material covered in an introductory college course, according to camp coordinators. The camp also offers students an opportunity to showcase their creativity.
Students base many of their projects on their interests outside of computers.
He worked for hours to make it work. The Web page project could be the best place to show off a camper's personality. For some, it is an exercise, for others an expression. A sampling of the campers' pages reveals sites about Florida State University, a pet bird named Sam and Star Wars. Some pages could be classified as absurd.