Digital Kids Byte outstanding entrepreneurs

Digital Kids Byte outstanding entrepreneurs Fields of all the technology U. S. Today, the street youth are inundated with technology. Xbox, Tivos, iPods and cell phones, Generation Z will be more connected generation of Digital Kids ever walk the planet. After watching his twelve-year-old son to surf the net, text message friends and immerse yourself in technology, sales consultant and entrepreneur Peter Hanson Philadelphia region has an 'idea. Why not take advantage of its twelve years, the thirst for technology and redirect it to a profession that allows it to compete in the 21st century? Although his company was doing well, has no website portrays your company in an appropriate manner. If his son Kyle had leaed to build websites, then you could initiate a review and updating of the site of his company. Luckily, while browsing the web, his wife had found a field where technology can send their son Kyle to lea these new skills. Thus, while most kids are used in sport during the summer, Kyle attended iD Tech Camps and leaed to make websites pivot, jump and bounce with Flash Animation. iD Tech Campus provides a week, from beginner to advanced, hands on technology summer courses for ages 7-17 prestigious universities in 19 countries. These places are 40 Stanford, Princeton, UCLA, Columbia, Northweste, Vassar, and Emory. During the week, students attend courses in web design, digital video production, 2D and 3D Video Game Creation, and programming and robotics. Small classes average only six students per teacher, students receive the attention they need to excel. Students use of products for industry technology leaders such as Adobe, Macromedia, Apple, Canon, RadioShack, Wacom and Autodesk. In more than a week of fun, these Digital Kids leave with a project that uses the end products that the professionals use, increased confidence in technology and a competitive advantage. "I was very proud that I created a website really cool is a week that my instructor jaw drop when he saw my Flash animation morph into different forms of a logo," said Kyle. With the Flash animation tool Shape Tween, Kyle has made his live performance. He has used different forms of color tued in his "Kyle Henson Productions" logo. "At first it was difficult, but my instructor showed me how to morph objects. I think the animation for my site is not only super fun, but very rewarding to know that I was using the same software that the web designers and professional work. "Today, the challenge for parents to help their children lea the technology that they themselves have not to use or understand. They depend on the school to achieve this goal, but unfortunately, today the schools, delays in the integration of technology into the curriculum. Thomas K. Glennan and Arthur Melmed answer this crucial question in their article Encourage the use of educational technology: Elements of a national strategy. "The nation's largest education should aim to produce students well-prepared for life and work in the 21st century. In 1994, schools in the United States spent about $ 3 billion on computer and network technologies. Despite all these activities, however, examples of school-wide technology are relatively rare and isolated. "ID Tech Camps addresses this pressing need and use tech savvy role models for instructors. As role models, these college students and recent graduates make leaing fun and parts of first-hand how technology has a positive impact. "Our philosophy is to be mentors for Digital Kids. They are like sponges and love to enjoy that knowledge, "said Jennifer Liss, Camp Director at iD Tech Camps where Kyle attended. "These children can not get enough so it's incredibly inspiring to teach us what we have leaed at university and our profession." The end result is a sense of autonomy, independence and self-confidence as students lea to express their creativity through new ways of using technology. Often, they integrate what they have leaed in their school projects or even start the business. While Kyle is using his newly leaed skills in web design helps the parent to improve the website of his company throughout the country to San Francisco ten years, Julian has transformed his passion for video games into a profitable business. Julian's mother, Ellen Finnegan, also heard about iD Tech Camps and immediately enrolled his son in creating a successful video game courses. His hope is to inspire Julian in technology through his passion - video games. But ever since Ellen was gone. After the creation of his game to the field, with the easy to use Multimedia Fusion, Julian did not stop there. When he retued home, his arrival was at home in a hurry, and then time to add more details to his game has started to sell its stake to peers. The demand was so great that this young entrepreneur expanded its sales team with the appointment of its eight years and her sister-friend. It worked. Julian is now working on her third suite because of pent-up demand. Digital Kids With these, the sky is the limit. With both Kyle and Julian already enrolled in several courses in programming and robotics, Web design and digital video, who knows what these whiz Kids will create next. And Julien wants to do in the future? "Own several video games," said the confident fourth grader. "If I am rich, I have three. Otherwise, my one. "