A tech camp is a

summer camp A summer camp or sleepaway camp is a supervised program for children conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as ''campers''. Summer school is usually a part of the academ ...

which focuses on technology education, sometimes referred to as a computer camp. These camps often include programs such as

video game design Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage. Some common video game design subdiscipline ...

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

, and programming. These camps first began to appear in the United States in the late 1970s.

National Computer Camps National Computer Camps are computer camps for children and teens founded in 1977 by Dr. Michael Zabinski. There are locations at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where Dr. Zabinski is a professor of physics and engineering; Og ...

was the first computer camp established in 1977.The World Inside The Computer: New Directions For Computer Camps
COMPUTE! Issue 46, March 1984, p. 132. *''U.S. News & World Report'' April 23, 2001, p. 41. *''Computer World'', No 16, April 17, 1978, p. 16.

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