Techakids Summer Camps

Techakids Summer Camps offers hands-on projects such as modding and world building in Minecraft, Roblox VR Game Coding 3D, and a Minecraft Server & Modding Engineering Camp. Campers take part in activities like coding and battling the CHICKEN JOCKEY in Minecraft, creating items like blocks, tools, and mods, designing and building adventure maps and worlds, and setting up and running Minecraft servers. The program also includes Battle Robots with Artificial Intelligence (A.I), a Robotics Lab with A.I, BattleBots robotic combat, quadruped (robotic dogs) and humanoid robotic programming, Roblox game design, drone programming with Python, programming microcontrollers with C++, building neural-network robots and artificial intelligent devices, Python programming to train neural network models used in AI, using cloud computing resources, virtual and augmented reality, 3D modeling and printing, mobile app and mobile game design, working with advanced robotics systems, outdoor activities, games, social interactions, team-building games, and creating artistic masterpieces.

• Ages: 6–14 years old
• Schedule: Weekly sessions, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 12 PM
• Price: Camps fees only $239 per a week

Camps for 2026 are listed as June 15–18, June 22–26, June 29–July 2, July 6–10, and July 13–17. Techakids Summer Camps is part of a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization with nonprofit status enabling reinvestment of 100% of tuition fees into learning tools, and fees have been lowered to ensure classes remain accessible. The program is described as South Bay's premier summer camp experience, with over 7,000 South Bay children served in camps, a low camper-to-staff ratio of 1:4, and two or three instructors per class. Camp counselors are South Bay natives and some of the top college-educated students in the country who attend universities like Yale, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and California Polytechnic University, majoring in engineering, Pre Med, and computer science.

Techakids and the Greater South Bay STEM Foundation have been part of the South Bay community for over a decade, providing after-school enrichment and summer camps, and the camp started about ten years ago. The Greater South Bay STEM Foundation is a nonprofit 501 (c)3 Educational Foundation founded in 2015, gaining tax-exempt nonprofit status in 2016, and was founded to make STEM programs readily affordable and accessible to elementary and middle school families in the Greater South Bay and surrounding communities, with every dollar spent on children in the South Bay. The organization has collaborations and partnerships with AWS (Amazon Web Services), Google, and Microsoft Azure, and uses exclusive resources and state-of-the-art robotics and computer technology, including production-grade robots used in research labs, industries, and governments worldwide and advanced robotics systems rarely seen in U.S. classrooms. The curriculum mirrors top universities including Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT, offers advanced learning 2 to 3 grade levels above a camper’s current grade, and includes an AI robotics program running since 2018, a makerspace being created for exploration with technology and computer programming, and voluntary homework assignments, practice drills, and virtual classrooms with a live stream.

The program is described as having a caring award-winning staff and as South Bay's lowest-priced after-school enrichment in the South Bay. The mission statement for the Greater South Bay STEM Foundation and Techakids states that the mission is to offer the highest possible quality in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) education, with a focus that transcends mere profit. Techakids Summer Camps is led by Co-Founders Toni Blackmon and Ryan Gagajena. Camper feedback includes comments such as “I love Techakids because I can build cool stuff.” from Dasy and “I get to be myself, make new friends, and play amazing games every day!” from Leo.

Last updated March 14, 2026.