SketchUp Kids Camp Report

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I am happy to say that the first of the camps that have licensed my SketchUp Camp program, Seneca College Summer Camps in Toronto, is now in its 3rd week and things are running quite smoothly. From the reports I am getting from the councillors say the kids are having a load of fun and they are learning how to make SketchUp Models correctly!

They are alternating the camp weeks so they have 12 -14 year olds one week and 9-11 year olds the next week. They are spending the full day for one week on SketchUp
In order to meet their program requirements I put in a ton of work providing them with a 104 page step by step screen shot by screen shot manual, a second 30 page summary manual and an IT manual as well as various things such as a keyboard poster with the special keys coloured in and of course templates for certificates of completion. I have a number of files that I created as a basis for some of the exercises and assignements and I put those in a private collection on 3D warehouse. The kids are placing their work in another private collection on 3D warehouse and dowloading at home. From the items I am seeing, even the youngest group is turning out some wonderful work. Though I can see they get bored with creating components and groups quite early on. I examined some of their models and I can see a half hearted effort at first and then they just give up and model. No matter, they know how

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When they start to edit and make changes they will see very quickly why those groups and components would have been good to use.

I am really quite pleased that things seem to be going so well. The councellors had no knowledge of SketchUp before the camp and I spent only 10 hours training them directly on the camp materials. They totally got it. I needed the one on one training at first to see where there may be problems and this first run of the camp will allow me to do some tweaking of the program. Then I will just record the training sessions and make that available to the next licensees.
I pleased as punch!