About Us

Camp TechWise is a summer camp program with a focus on educational enrichment in Technology, Science and Engineering topics for the Seattle area.

Providing summer camp enrichment around STEM subjects is so valuable for our youth (our future work force) to keep our society strong. But this enrichment must move beyond just creating skilled "users" of applications. A computer camp program was needed that would offer kids a deeper understanding. Camp TechWise is moving beyond applications and into creativity and critical thinking skills and unveiling the next big technology movement. Camp TechWise is much more then a computer camp it's a STEM subject learning lab for inspiring innovation.

Camp TechWise was founded by veterans of the Computer Camp industry who have built and provided computer camps nationwide for nearly a decade (and at much higher price points). But in those early models of what a computer camp is about emphasis was placed on high priced software and university venues. These large national programs have still not caught on to web 2.0 and the powerful technology movement happening due to Open Source technology. In the day when knowing such premier software was enough to make a career in a given field that type of exposure was a good advantage, but it doesn't cut it anymore.

Once we recognized that it could be done better we had to open Camp TechWise. The vision for our best possible program was crystal clear. Without the constraints of the national footprint we knew that we could run a much more powerful summer computer camp experience then we'd ever been able to before. And we were excited to be on-site making this vision happen. We also knew that we could cut frivolous expenses and gross over-head and offer an improved computer camp at a price point that would allow even more kids to join us!

We wanted a computer camp that expanded topics beyond just learning computer applications. We wanted a computer camp that helped students become contributors and understand the open world of technology development where their ideas and innovations can help them get on top of the wave of future technology developments. We wanted to use the entire World Wide Web as our classroom so students would always know how to find information and remain life long learners.We wanted to help youth see technology in action in other areas, such as engineering and science. We wanted kids to think about how the world's challenges will be theirs to solve with creative use of technology as it evolves. We wanted kids to learn critical thinking skills and scientific methods to tackle big challenges with confidence.

We wanted to offer a flexible computer camp for families that will fit into parents busy schedules. We also knew the computer camp's content needed to be flexible to meet the different needs of young people. We knew that some students want to work all-day and others need a computer camp program that has balance with outside time. We knew that gaming had become a big issue in the standard computer camp. And we wanted a computer camp that had excellent gaming sessions for those who want it but also could follow parent’s wishes for no-gaming without making a child feel left out.

We wanted a computer camp with hand picked staff. We wanted our staff to build each child's content around what each child is ready to learn and wanting to learn... a computer camp that follows a child's interest. It takes a very special staff member who is extremely good at their technology skills and even better at inspiring and coaching a student. We also wanted a computer camp that is fun to work at, with plenty of staff so the staff can also love what they do and do their very best. To do this well we knew we needed a team of people with a variety of skills and roles at our computer camp. So we added recreation specialists and an experienced industry IT Director - as well as having our instructors and our seasoned camp administrator with 20 years of summer camp experience.

That's what we wanted because we've been listening to families and students, teachers and technology experts for over a decade who have told us what they want and need from the perfect computer camp. So that's what we are building for you. Join us in 2009, we guarantee you are gonna love us.