About TDSA's Tech Camp
Kids learn best by doing. By weaving up-front instruction and demonstration with hands-on learning, TDSA's summer technology camp gives your child the tools to create a unique, personal project. From beginner to advanced and everything in between, there’s a place at TDSA Technology Camp for your child. Beginners won’t get lost. The advanced won’t be bored.
Lego Robotics: Imagine it, build it and watch it go! Powered by the LEGO® WE DO Base Set and Software, this course explores the exciting world of robotics! Combining the versatility of the LEGO building system, an intelligent microcomputer brick and intuitive drag and drop programming software, this adventure will have you creating cool robots on your first day.
Digital Photography/Editing: Point, shoot and share. With this course, you will be able to click away a few summer days, training your eye and learning how to best utilize coloring, cropping, and digitally enhancing your photography. The focus is mainly on Adobe Photoshop® and how to use all of it many tools. At the end of the week, students receive a DVD of all of their images.
Scratch Computer Programming Let your imagination run wild in this multimedia adventure. Create your own interactive stories, animated adventures and creative comics. Learn drag and drop programming basics with Scratch (a project of the MIT Media Lab). Computer characters are at your command! Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art --and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Digital Animation/Storytelling: Go Animate state-of-art animation software allows campers to create, produce, and shared animated movies. Campers will create characters, backgrounds, and dialogue. They'll even get a DVD to bring home to share with family and friends.
Desktop Publishing Projects: Learn to use Microsoft Publisher and Word to produce posters, flyers, brochures, build graphs and more! Keyboard Lab Learning typing is the focus of this keyboarding lab. Learning keyboarding skills is vital for today’s learners and tomorrow’s earners. This course is a great way to build typing skills. Keyboarding games teach important skills through a variety of typing lessons and typing games..... oh yeah, they're fun!
Movie Making: Ready to learn the basics of filming and editing? Shoot with cameras and see how much fun creative editing can be with the Adobe Premier Video drag and drop video editor. Take home a DVD of your final project to show your family.
Apps & Other Web 2.0 Tools: Social media provides a variety of tools, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, that are used to engage students and enhance essential skills (communication, collaboration, creativity, media literacy, technological proficiency, global awareness. Using iPads, iPods and other mobile devices, students will learn relevant 21st century technology skills.
Lego Robotics: Imagine it, build it and watch it go! Powered by the LEGO® WE DO Base Set and Software, this course explores the exciting world of robotics! Combining the versatility of the LEGO building system, an intelligent microcomputer brick and intuitive drag and drop programming software, this adventure will have you creating cool robots on your first day.
Digital Photography/Editing: Point, shoot and share. With this course, you will be able to click away a few summer days, training your eye and learning how to best utilize coloring, cropping, and digitally enhancing your photography. The focus is mainly on Adobe Photoshop® and how to use all of it many tools. At the end of the week, students receive a DVD of all of their images.
Scratch Computer Programming Let your imagination run wild in this multimedia adventure. Create your own interactive stories, animated adventures and creative comics. Learn drag and drop programming basics with Scratch (a project of the MIT Media Lab). Computer characters are at your command! Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art --and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Digital Animation/Storytelling: Go Animate state-of-art animation software allows campers to create, produce, and shared animated movies. Campers will create characters, backgrounds, and dialogue. They'll even get a DVD to bring home to share with family and friends.
Desktop Publishing Projects: Learn to use Microsoft Publisher and Word to produce posters, flyers, brochures, build graphs and more! Keyboard Lab Learning typing is the focus of this keyboarding lab. Learning keyboarding skills is vital for today’s learners and tomorrow’s earners. This course is a great way to build typing skills. Keyboarding games teach important skills through a variety of typing lessons and typing games..... oh yeah, they're fun!
Movie Making: Ready to learn the basics of filming and editing? Shoot with cameras and see how much fun creative editing can be with the Adobe Premier Video drag and drop video editor. Take home a DVD of your final project to show your family.
Apps & Other Web 2.0 Tools: Social media provides a variety of tools, commonly referred to as Web 2.0, that are used to engage students and enhance essential skills (communication, collaboration, creativity, media literacy, technological proficiency, global awareness. Using iPads, iPods and other mobile devices, students will learn relevant 21st century technology skills.