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Press Release
February 8, 2008
iD Gaming Academy Presents Camp Fatal1ty
By Karen Thurm Safran
"iD Tech Camps announces their new limited-edition course, partnering with Johnathan "Fatal1ty™" Wendel. Fatal1ty, the world’s best known professional gamer is collaborating on curriculum development for this exclusive course."
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Press Release
January 3, 2008
Video Game Camp Uses Award-Winning Unreal Tournament 3 to Teach Valuable Game Development Skills
By Alisa Schreckengast
"Today’s teens are the first generation born into a world completely oriented around technology. Their births were announced on a cell phone and their images growing up were sent to family on the Internet. They have social networking pages and build relationships by calling and texting friends."
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The Mercury News
August 8, 2007
"Takahashi: Summer camps offer kids fun, games, programming"
By Dean Takahashi
"Sometimes kids come back from summer vacation with an edge on their classmates. While other kids were off at the beach, 11-year-old Paige Silva of Union City was attending a youth technology training camp at Stanford University, where she created her own video game called "Dream Quest."
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CNET News
August 9, 2007
"This summer camp is all about technology"
By Stefanie Olsen
"For two weeks in August, 13-year-old Malcolm Lazarow is in a kind of hog heaven for computer gamers. One of thousands of kids attending iD Tech Camps on college campuses across the country this summer, Lazarow is here at Stanford University in a vacated fraternity house filled with desks, computers and teenage boys."
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Press Release
August 8, 2007
Fatal1ty is the prize for lucky iD Gaming Academy winner
By Karen Thurm Safran
Campers Have Chance to Compete Against Worlds #1 Profesional Gamer, Fatal1ty
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San Francisco Chronicle
April 29, 2007
"Setting Up Summer Camp"
By Delfin Vigil
"First of all, it's not a geek camp," says Karen Thurm, vice president of iD Tech Camps -- the Silicon Valley computer and technology summer camp going on its ninth year. "People make the mistake of thinking their child wouldn't be interested in this type of camp. But the fact is we make it fun. And all kids love to have fun..."
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Princeton Packet
June 7, 2008
"Technically Speaking Camp for today's whiz kids"
By Kristin Boyd
"iD Tech Camps is an example of a new breed of summer camp that has moved far beyond the traditional spread on a rustic lake run by a scouting group or a pair of husband-and-wife schoolteachers..."
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Palo Alto Weekly
April 18, 2007
"Creating tech heads"
By Susan Hong
"Most parents discourage their kids from spending too much time playing games on the computer. But 13-year-old Jaxon Welsh, a student at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, has found a way to turn his passion for video games into academic credit..."
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Houston Chronicle
July 10, 2007
"Specialty camps more than mere fun for kids"
By Sarah Viren
"At camp this summer, Davis Gray designed a video game. While the sun shone outside, the 13-year-old boy hunched in front of a computer monitor, perfecting the gunfire in Level 1 of his game, Operation Volcano, in which the hero hops from island to island, fighting bad guys and trying to capture flags..."
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The Lake Houston Sentinel
July 19, 2006
"Digital Camp: No Kum by Yah here"
By Bob Bartel
"This is a niche camp. We teach children how to build games, using proprietary software from many of the game manufacturers themselves. We have different levels of instruction so that campers can start at a beginning level, and work their way up to more difficult programming tasks..."
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The Orlando Sentinel
July 10, 2007
"Kids learning to create video games"
By Jeff Rubenstein
"Forget canoeing and campfires. A new sort of summer camp for children is springing up at places like UC Santa Cruz and it's about writing HTML code, not playing capture the flag..."
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The Daily Texan
June 28, 2007
"University hosts camp for tech-savvy students"
By Andres Martin
"Craig isn't just playing the computer game Warcraft, he's strategizing and collaborating with fellow campers to better their game play..."
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Palo Alto Daily News
February 23, 2007
"Summer camp offers cutting edge of digital skills"
By Banks Albach
"Butterflies under a magnifying glass, archery in the woods and kayaking are not at this summer camp - unless the visitors are enhancing the butterfly in Photoshop, making an archery video game or editing a digital video of a kayaker."
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Adobe Kids Club
June 11, 2006
"Let your creativity soar with Adobe Photoshop Elements"
By Chase Newton, iD Tech Camps, Virginia
When 9-year-old Chase Newton left home to attend summer camp, he never imagined that he would end up flying over the pyramids or climbing huge buildings King Kong-style...
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