CAMP REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR SUMMER 2025!
Registration for Summer 2025 is now open for Ithaca Media Arts Summer Camp!
Our 17th year of Summer Camp, we’re gearing up for an awesome summer of fun, creativity, making things, tech, media and learning! Register now for Ithaca Media Arts 2025 Summer Camp!!!
Media & Tech Camp activities include Roblox Game Design and Play, 3D Printing and CAD, Robotics, Lego Animation, Virtual Reality Gaming, Filmmaking, Claymation, CGI Animation, Green Screen Studio Production, Minecraft, Drone Piloting and more! Most of our campers register for Media & Tech Camp. At the Media & Tech Camp registration site you select your camper’s week(s), and Full Day (9am-4pm), School Day (9am-2pm), Mornings (9am-12:30pm), or Afternoons (12:30-4pm). This Media & Tech Summer Camp registration enables campers to decide when they arrive which activities they prefer.
PUPPET & ANIMATION,& ART PLAYHOUSE (ages 4-8)
For our youngest campers ages 4 – 8, our PUPPET & ANIMATION & ART PLAYHOUSE features our Green Screen Puppet Theater where children create puppet shows on the moon (or anywhere else they dream up,) make their own puppets, plus Lego Animation, Flip Books, Basic Animation, Art projects (and no video game play). Young campers enjoy a separate room for the Playhouse!
ADVANCED COMPUTER, GRAPHICS & SYNTH SOUND GAMING LAB (ages 12+)
The Advanced Computer, Graphics & Synth Sound Lab offers fun exploration of digital and analog creativity! Available to older campers (ages 12 and up), this Advanced Lab is INCLUDED with regular Full Day / School Day / Morning / Afternoon camp registration, available here. Campers enjoy independent use of Alienware gaming PCs (featuring 3080 graphics) and sound/music synthesizers.
BUILD A PC THIS SUMMER!
This summer we’re again offering our popular Build Your Own Computer Camp for ages 10 to 18 as both a standalone camp, or as an add-on option for Full Day and Afternoon campers. Now gamers, tech enthusiasts and anyone else with an interest to build their own PCs can take home a high-performance PC built at camp! Campers learn what makes computers tick, and enjoy the pride of building!
VIRTUAL REALITY
All campers age 8 and up also get to experience VIRTUAL REALITY with the Vive VR system. Paint 3D sculptures and walk around them with Tilt Brush, or play from our selection of fun VR games!
LEGACY REGISTRATION
For the benefit of old-timers, or for newbies who prefer to check us out in a more limited (fewer hours per day) and a more focused way, we still offer the specialty camp registration system. You can choose from over a dozen part-time A La Carte Camp programs using our traditional register by camp program system!
TRY-IT CAMP
If you’re completely new and not sure if Ithaca Media Arts Summer Camp is the right fit for your child, please consider our inexpensive one-day Try-It Camp.
REGISTER WITH DEPOSIT
Register today using easy PayPal checkout. You do not need to pay in full in advance, we’ll hold your camper’s spot with a $100 deposit.
SPECIAL EARLY BIRD BONUS!
We’re offering Ithaca Media Arts Summer Camp T-Shirts as an added incentive to register early: We’ll give a FREE T-Shirt to everyone who registers in 2024! So register now to get your free IMA T-shirt!
ITHACA MEDIA ARTS SUMMER CAMP: A Summer Maker Fair for Teens & Kids!
From Animation to Robotics, Claymation to 3D Printing, Filmmaking to Game Making, Photographing Reality to Virtual Reality, Ithaca Media Arts is an extraordinary environment where kids and teens come for a fun time and leave with new skills and the empowerment of the maker movement! Register Now and Join the Maker Movement this Summer!
ALL DAY OR MORNING / AFTERNOON CREATIVE FUN
Full day 9am-4pm camp options include Full Day Film Animation Academy for teens and kids ages 8-17 interested in making videos and animations, Junior Filmmaker for ages 5-8, and Engineering Camp for ages 9-17.
CREATIVE, FUN CAMPS FOR ALL AGES!
The Film & Animation Academy camp programs for ages 8 -17 enables campers to create their own short films! Campers use Live Action, Lego Animation, CGI, Cel Animation, Stop Motion, Claymation, Green Screen Studio, and other techniques to produce original scripts. This summer at the Academy we’re making a Jeopardy and documentary spoof, plus our customary TV News Spoof, and creating animations with Legos, Transformers and other toys!
EARLY DROP OFF & LATE PICKUP
Available from 8:30 am (a half hour early) to 6:00pm this summer, as in previous years. We offer early drop off and late pickup to suit your schedule, in half hour increments, via our Early Drop-off & Late Pick-up program. Just choose the extra time(s) you need.
DISCOUNTS FOR MULTI-WEEKS, SIBLINGS/FRIENDS
Substantial discounts are available for campers signing up for multiple weeks; see the online registration details for each (in the drop down list of how many weeks.) There’s also a 10% discount for registering a second (and third) camper on the same form (sibling / friend discount) — this is applied automatically at checkout.
Do you know a young future filmmaker who would enjoy a 4-week filmmaking program? Register for 1, 2, 3, 4 or more weeks at our Film & Animation Academy program and get a mini-film school and summer camp rolled into one!
Or register a tech enthusiast for 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8-weeks of game making with ROBLOX Game Making Camp and your camper can create a really sophisticated online game with advanced scripting that she or he will be truly proud of! Teens and kids can even create games to play on the X-Box using the ROBLOX platform and tools and expertise we provide!
Camp begins the first week of July and ends Labor Day Weekend.
SEE CAMP PROJECTS ON THE BIG SCREEN AT CINEMAPOLIS!
We’ll have a real movie theater screening of selected camp projects at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca for friends and family. The screening will include mini-documentaries of the tech camps too, so everyone is part of the show!
We look forward to a fun and creative summer and hope you can join us for the 2025 camp season! Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
REMINDER: WINTER & SPRING BREAKS
Also… a reminder:
Winter & Spring Breaks Camp is also open for registration! Join us during the Winter & Spring Break Camps for fun and educational activities in Roblox Game Design & Play, Lego Animation, Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D Printing.
For more info about the Winter Break Camp program and to register, tap here:
Media & Tech Winter Break Camp Program
Our unique media and tech exploration experience is STEM/STEAM to the max! Participants choose activities in our Media and Tech studios. It’s fun, educational and creative!