Vision Tech Camps

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Vision Tech Camps
Private
Industry Summer camp
Founded San Ramon, California, United States
Founder Anita Khurana
Headquarters Danville, California , United States
Website www.visiontechcamps.com

Vision Tech Camps is a Bay Area company offering summer computer camps and after-school activities, teaching students between the ages of 7-17 at Vision Tech centers and local schools throughout the Bay Area.

A tech camp is a summer camp which focuses on technology education, sometimes referred to as a computer camp. These camps often include programs such as video game design, robotics, and programming. These camps first began to appear in the United States in the late 1970s. National Computer Camps, Inc. is the first computer camp established in 1977. (see Compute! Issue 25, June 1982, Page 100

An after-school activity is any organized program that youth can participate in outside of the traditional school day. Some programs are run by a primary or secondary school, while others are run by externally funded non-profit or commercial organizations. After-school youth programs can occur inside a school building or elsewhere in the community, for instance at a community center, church, library, or park. After-school activities are a cornerstone of concerted cultivation, which is a style of parenting that emphasizes children gaining leadership experience and social skills through participating in organized activities. Such children are believed by proponents to be more successful in later life, while others consider too many activities to indicate overparenting. While some research has shown that structured after-school programs can lead to better test scores, improved homework completion, and higher grades, further research has questioned the effectiveness of after-school programs at improving youth outcomes such as externalizing behavior and school attendance. Additionally, certain activities or programs have made strides in closing the achievement gap, or the gap in academic performance between white students and students of color as measured by standardized tests. Though the existence of after-school activities is relatively universal, different countries implement after-school activities differently, causing after-school activities to vary on a global scale.

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History

Vision Tech Camps was founded in San Ramon, California by Anita Khurana in 2000, [1] where after school programs and tech camps were initially offered to schools at schools within the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. [2] [3] Vision Tech later opened its first center in Danville, California, and expanded to another center in Saratoga, California in 2014. [4] In 2017, Vision Tech Camps announced a new location in El Cerrito, California serving the Berkeley area. [5]

San Ramon, California City in California, United States

San Ramon is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located 34 miles east of San Francisco, and within the San Ramon Valley. San Ramon's population was estimated as 75,931 in 2017 by the US Census Bureau, making it the 4th largest city in Contra Costa County, behind Richmond, Concord and Antioch.

San Ramon Valley Unified School District public school district in Contra Costa County, California

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Courses

Vision Tech courses include video game design, programming, engineering, robotics, minecraft camps and 3d printing. [6]

Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of a video game in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline, and characters in the production stage. The designer of a game is very much like the director of a film; the designer is the visionary of the game and controls the artistic and technical elements of the game in fulfillment of their vision. Video game design requires artistic and technical competence as well as writing skills. As the industry has aged and embraced alternative production methodologies such as agile, the role of a principal game designer has begun to separate - some studios emphasising the auteur model while others emphasising a more team oriented model. Within the video game industry, video game design is usually just referred to as "game design", which is a more general term elsewhere.

Computer programming process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs

Computer programming is the process of designing and building an executable computer program for accomplishing a specific computing task. Programming involves tasks such as: analysis, generating algorithms, profiling algorithms' accuracy and resource consumption, and the implementation of algorithms in a chosen programming language. The source code of a program is written in one or more languages that are intelligible to programmers, rather than machine code, which is directly executed by the central processing unit. The purpose of programming is to find a sequence of instructions that will automate the performance of a task on a computer, often for solving a given problem. The process of programming thus often requires expertise in several different subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, specialized algorithms, and formal logic.

Engineering applied science

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References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Vision Tech Camps.
  2. ↑ "Women to Watch". Diablo magazine.
  3. ↑ "Students learn to program games at sold-out design class". Newsbank.
  4. ↑ "Saratoga Shorts". Mercury News.
  5. ↑ "Vision Tech Camps Berkeley/El Cerrito Location". Vision Tech Camps.
  6. ↑ "All Tech Camps". Vision Tech Camps.
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