CCCity Camps

Power Up Tech Academy

Power Up Tech Academy is a summer camp option in Chicago, IL, listed for ages 5-11.

Ages 511, Summer 2026, in Chicago. Pricing available from organizer.

Make video games, Minecraft mods, digital art, websites and more. Our summer camps take you from age 5 to 13 with a sequence of progressively more complex coding languages. Camps can be taken multiple weeks and we will give returning students more challenging new projects.How we got started...A couple years ago, I was looking for a Christmas gift for my nephew. I came across a kids coding game, and as a former professional software developer knew that this was something I wanted to introduce him to. However, when I looked around for more coding options, I was surprised to find very few. There were a handful of books, but virtually no computer programming classes for kids in Chicago.I created Power Up Tech Academy because "I LOVE CODING". It gives me the ability to CREATE the ideas I can see in my headIt’s challenging and constantly keeps me GROWING and learningThere’s no feeling quite li

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