{"592775":{"#nid":"592775","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2017 GT Computing Summer Camps in Full Swing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s summer and camp at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Computing is in full swing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, nearly 500 elementary, middle school, and high school students are registered in the College\u0026rsquo;s summer camp program. The weeklong day camps scheduled this summer include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWeb design\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERobotics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMinecraft\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EComputer game design\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMobile applications\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EStop-motion movies\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECreating music through code\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENew this summer, high school students can take Java programming. Students will learn programming concepts using the Java language and work to establish skills and facility that can be applied to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/apstudent.collegeboard.org\/apcourse\/ap-computer-science-a\u0022\u003EAP Computer Science (CS) A exam\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our high school camps have been very popular this year, with each camp at its maximum number of 24 campers,\u0026rdquo; said Annette Clifford, academic program coordinator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA camp focused on programming games with Unity is also being offered to high schoolers this summer. Unity is one of the industry standard development environments for 3D game design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GT Computing summer camps are coordinated each year by the College\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/student-life\/gt-computing-community\/oec-office\u0022\u003EOffice of Outreach, Enrollment and Community\u003C\/a\u003E (OEC).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The mission of the GT Computing summer camps is to share the creative side of computing with our campers,\u0026rdquo; said Cedric Stallworth, assistant dean for OEC. \u0026ldquo;We don\u0026rsquo;t necessarily want them all to be computer scientists. Our goal is to stir their curiosity and give them a glimpse of all of the endless creative possibilities that computing holds for them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough most of the GT Computing summer camp sessions are wait-list only at this time, some are still accepting campers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nearly 500 campers are enrolled in GT Computing summer camps this year."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2017-06-16 18:05:24","changed_gmt":"2019-03-08 20:50:59","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592774":{"id":"592774","type":"image","title":"Summer camp 2017","body":null,"created":"1497636145","gmt_created":"2017-06-16 18:02:25","changed":"1497636145","gmt_changed":"2017-06-16 18:02:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225938","name":"camper girl.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/camper%20girl.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/camper%20girl.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77607,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/camper%20girl.jpg?itok=WbBct0VG"}}},"media_ids":["592774"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Snedeker, Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-7253\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}