Ages 11–17Two weeksOnline
Two weeks. One shipped app. A demo on the final Friday.
A summer coding camp should produce something. Ours is built backward from a single deadline: on the final Friday, every student demos a working app to the group and to their families.
Two weeks, live and online, in groups of six. Students arrive with an idea — or find one in the first session — and spend the camp turning it into software that runs.
Week one is fundamentals and a first small build, so nobody spends the camp stuck at a blank screen. Week two is the student's own project, with coaches moving between students as they hit real problems.
The demo deadline does a lot of work here. It forces scope decisions, which is the single most useful thing a young builder can learn — most beginner projects fail because they were too big, not because they were too hard.
Camp runs ages 11–17, but students aren't given identical tooling. Younger students work in Replit with Gemini on a parent-owned account. Students 13 and up can use GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT/Codex with parental consent.
We're explicit about this because the terms of service genuinely differ by age, and a camp that hands every child the same login isn't reading them.
It isn't a lecture series, and it isn't supervised free time. Students build for most of every session. Coaches teach in short bursts and then get out of the way, which is roughly how the work happens in a real engineering team.
Programs
Two intensive weeks, one shipped app, and a demo day for parents on the final Friday.
Most popularThe on-ramp. Describe what you want to build, learn to direct AI tools with precision, ship your first real web app — and understand the code underneath.
A dedicated coach and a custom roadmap — for beginners who want momentum or advanced students going deep.
FAQ
Summer dates are published in spring. Join the list and we'll email you when the schedule goes live, before it opens publicly.
Ages 11–17. Students are grouped by age and experience, and tools are matched to each age band rather than applied uniformly.
No. Camp is designed for all levels — week one starts from fundamentals, and students with prior experience move to their own project sooner.
Camp runs as a daily live block across two weeks, with build time between sessions. Exact daily hours are published with each summer's schedule.
Online, in small live groups. Students can attend from any time zone where the published schedule works.
We email the schedule to the list before camp opens publicly.
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