CAMP REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR SUMMER 2023!
Registration for Summer 2023 is now open for Ithaca Media Arts Summer Camp!
Now entering our 15th year of Summer Camp, we’re gearing up for an awesome summer of fun, creativity, making things, tech, media and learning! Register now Ithaca Media Arts 2023 Summer Camp!!
Use the simple Full Day / Half Day Registration option, as it is easiest. Just pick which week(s) and full day, mornings, or afternoons. This camp registration system makes signing up simple, and enables campers to decide when they arrive which activities they prefer. (You don’t have to decide in advance what your camper(s) will be doing.) Most of our registrations came in using this easier system last summer, so here it is again.
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 offer the specialty camp registration system. You can choose from over a dozen part-time Morning & Afternoon Camp programs using our traditional register by camp program system!
And 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 today using easy PayPal checkout. You do not need to pay in full in advance, we’ll hold your camper’s spot with your $75 deposit.
SPECIAL EARLY BIRD BONUS! This summer, 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 on or before May 15! 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!
BUILD A PC THIS SUMMER!
This summer we’re again offering the 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!
VIRTUAL REALITY FOR EVERYONE:
All campers age 10 and up also get to experience VIRTUAL REALITY with the Vive VR system.
ADVANCED COMPUTER, GRAPHICS & SYNTH SOUND LAB (ages 12+)
For older campers, our new Advanced Computer, Graphics & Synth Sound Lab offers fun exploration of digital and analog creativity! Available to older campers (ages 12 and up), this lab is INCLUDED with regular Full Day / School Day / Morning / Afternoon camp registration, available here
ALL DAY OR MORNING / AFTERNOON CREATIVE FUN!
Full day 9am-5pm camps include Full Day Film & Animation Academy for teens and kids ages 8-17 interested in making videos and animations, Junior Filmmaker Camp for ages 5-9, and Pre-Engineering Camp for ages 8-17, and
Part-day morning and afternoon camp programs this summer include iPad Filmmaking, 3-D Printer CAD Toymaking, and ROBLOX-Minecraft. ROBLOX camp includes X-Box game creation! Also Games and Game Making for ages 8 to 17.
For younger kids ages 5-8 camps include Junior Lego Animation & Claymation.
CREATIVE, FUN CAMPS FOR ALL AGES!
Kids Media Maker Camp for ages 7-14 is highly recommended for new campers, and includes many different media creation techniques including Lego animation, CGI animation, photography, TV news and drama. (Many campers return again and again!)
The Film & Animation Academy camp programs for ages 8 -18 enable campers to create their own short films! Campers use Lego Animation, CGI, Cel Animation, Stop Motion, Claymation, Green Screen, 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 Legos, Transformers and other toys!
Also consider, individually: Lego Robotics (ages 8-17), and Computer Game Making with Roblox Studio (ages 8-17).
EARLY DROP OFF & LATE PICKUP.
We’ll be open from 8:30 am 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 Afternoon & Morning Recreation 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-weeks or 8-weeks of game making with ROBLOX 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 last week of June and ends Labor Day Weekend. A traditional mail-in registration form is also available here.
SEE CAMP PROJECTS ON THE BIG SCREEN AT CINEMAPOLIS!
All camp programs include free admission for friends and family to a real movie theater screening of all completed camp projects at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca. 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 2023 camp season! Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Summer 2023 Special Considerations: See HERE for info about health safety and credits from last summer.