SUMMER CAMP ENGAGES DIGITAL KIDS

iD Tech Camps offers hands-on technology camps at prestigious universities nationwide for ages 8-17. Now this digital generation of kids can attend a summer camp to design web sites, create video games, film & edit digital movies, produce stop motion animation, and learn programming & robotics.

Was it only ten years ago when our parents used the go to your room!" threat as a disciplinary tactic to get us away from distractions so we could focus on finishing our homework? Try that with your child today and youre making a big mistake. The suffer-in-your-bedroom punishment is a thing of the past. Personal technology is altering social behaviors of todays kids.

Dubbed as the digital generation, kids today learn to manipulate VCRs at the age of 3, develop typing skills while playing computer games, talk with friends through virtual chat sites, and send text-messages through their cell phones. The connection to their social and entertainment worlds is right in their wired bedrooms!

Technology has definitely enhanced our way of living in the 21st century, were just beginning to see how it can increase the academic performance ratings of our children.

iD Tech Camps (www.internalDrive.com ) was established in 1999 to inspire young minds to exercise their creativity while embracing interactive digital media as an invaluable tool to succeed in a technology-oriented world. With highly trained, passionate instructors who make learning fun and exciting, iD Tech Camps provides weeklong, hands-on technology, summer programs at 27 prestigious universities nationwide, including M.I.T., Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Emory University, Stanford University, and UCLA.

Eemans parents were a little hesitant to send their young daughter to a technology camp. Once a shy 9-year old, reluctant to participate in school, Eemans self-esteem blossomed after participating in iD Tech Camps at Northwestern University. After Eeman completed iD Tech Camps Multimedia & Game Creation program, her parents were so impressed they signed her up for three more weeks and three additional programs -- Digital Video & Movie Production, Programming & Robotics, and Web Design & Graphic Arts.

Besides having a fun summer, enrolling Eeman at iD Tech Camps was a worthy investment for her future," stated Eemans mother Rayda Edding. As a result of attending iD Tech Camps, she is highly motivated to excel and now is a leader in her school." In addition to its core co-ed program, iD Tech Camps encourages girls to engage in technology through a Girls-Specific Week, which occurs the second week at each camp location. During this week, girls work together on projects, engage in discussions, and interact with women mentors in the technology industry.

At these day and residential camps, students produce digital movies, create video games, design web pages, learn programming and robotics, and more. Each camper completes a project at the end of the weeklong program. Within a balanced and fun-filled week, iD Tech Camps gear up students by tapping into their creative potentials with unlimited tech knowledge and hands-on multimedia projects. Campers find themselves in a powerful learning environment where they learn cutting-edge technology to tell their stories and articulate their visions.

Since Niko attended iD Tech Camps, his self esteem really shot up. At your camp, he was with people who validated his sense of style, his hobbies and his dreams," mother Michelle de la Cruz remarked. Using the latest technology, iD Tech Camps teaches computer learning for beginner to advanced learners. Each camper gets his own computer and theres an average of 6 students per instructor.

Instead of finding yourself in an impossible situation where you have to limit your childrens access to the web and prevent them from playing computer games because these were pulling down their grades, consider re-channeling their interest in technology to a productive and more positive direction. You cannot stop the digital generation from enjoying technology. This is their connection to their friends and it engages their fascination. At iD Tech Camps, campers are prepared to use computer technology as the tool of todays professionals. As such, Hewlett Packard, Apple, Adobe, LEGO, Canon, Cisco, Macromedia, and Iomega have partnered with iD Tech Camps to raise the bar in technology education.

To further develop her skills in digital video and movie production, Christine Frenzel enrolled at iD Tech Camps Stanford University location. Shooting her movie on a state-of-the-art Canon digital video camera then editing it with Apples Final Cut Pro, added to her desire to do more movie-making at age 14. I Wish, her first documentary, aired on the cable show, 30 by 30. A year later, HBO Family commissioned Frenzel for a second documentary which recently aired on the same program.

Next time you consider sending your kid to their room, you may be surprised at what they will be able to produce-it could be the next big hit on HBO!

Visit www.internalDrive.com or call 1-888-709-TECH (8324) or (408)626-9500 for additional information about the 2002 summer programs, locations, Girls-Specific Weeks, and registration details.