Apple has announced “a fun, free workshop where kids become filmmakers.”
At Apple Camp, kids ages 8-12 learn how to shoot their own footage, create an original song in GarageBand on an iPad, and put it all together in iMovie on a Mac.
This free workshop, held at Apple Retail Stores, spans three days and ends with campers debuting their masterpieces at the Apple Camp Film Festival.
Space is limited and workshops fill up quickly, so sign up now for a super-creative adventure.
• The Apple Retail Store where you attend Apple Camp will supply all the necessary tools to create your film. However, we encourage campers to bring their own Mac with OS X installed, a digital or video camera, and earphones. This helps campers become more familiar with their own cameras as they shoot film footage outside the store.
• All campers under the age of 13 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian for the duration of the Apple Camp workshop. Campers must also bring along a signed Camp Permission Statement (PDF) and a copy of their registration confirmation to attend.
More info via Apple.com here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not to be outdone, Microsoft today cobbled together a quickie webpage announcing “Microsoft Camp” where underprivileged children of Windows sufferers can cram into 19 usually-empty Apple Store replicas (located in the U.S.-only) and learn all about how to “Wipe and Rebuild Windows” and “How to Exchange Red Ring of Death Xboxes” from total dorks.
All dates, times, and sign up instructions for Microsoft’s summer camps will be announced “later this fall.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
All we ever did on summer vacation was try to dam up the local creek or build a bridge across it. And no one even took movies of our efforts!
The boys made a treehouse with “no Girls Allowed” sign. My sister and I climbed up and trashed it. Wish we had a movie of that!
Awesome, got a spot for my daughter in August.
My wife signed up my two boys for this camp. Gotta keep the kids occupied during the endless summer…
MacDailyNews Take: Not to be outdone, Microsoft today cobbled together a quickie webpage announcing “Microsoft Camp” where underprivileged children of Windows sufferers can cram into 19 usually-empty Apple Store replicas (located in the U.S.-only) and learn all about how to “Wipe and Rebuild Windows” and “How to Exchange Red Ring of Death Xboxes” from total dorks.
All dates, times, and sign up instructions for Microsoft’s summer camps will be announced “later this fall.”
Includes two free Miley Cyrus concert tickets!
Red ring of death is the best you could come up with? That was years ago and was fixed. Xbox is a GREAT gaming platform, sony and nintendo have NOTHING on it. iOS games do not even compare, they are a nice start, but a long way from xbox.
The fact that their camp would cover something that was relevant several years ago is part of the joke.
@nonsense
Sure Microsoft may be in the lead with video game consoles but… look at nintendo games… very simple that many can understand. iOS don’t have to compare to xbox… neither do nintendo games.. and yet they sell a ton of them. xbox has a hold of the hardcore gamers.. but nintendo has its niche of everyone can play it and that is where Apple steps in. You can already play your iOS games on your TV with an apple TV… eventually.. may or may not happen but they could offer storage on the device so you could install your games on there and it syncs with your computer in iTunes. The device is plenty capable and it already can do 1080p.
You have to think different… to understand Apple.
I would love to take may daughter but there are no evening classes and I’m not taking a week off work to go to 2 1.5Hr day classes. I would even pay for this if it was at a convenient time or over 3 weekends.
Not fair. I want to go to camp too. They just need a 40 something camp and I’ll be there!