​The Weekly Schmooze: New Coding Program for Maccabiah Campers

Each year, our staff works hard to make JCC Day Camp the best it’s ever been. This means evaluating our programs and thinking about our campers’ needs and wants.

What will help campers develop into thoughtful adults?
What will encourage them to be their best?
And, most importantly, what will they find fun and enriching?

This summer, we are excited to add a new Coding program for our Maccabiah division! Maccabiah campers will have the opportunity to write computer programs that create interactive art, stories, games, simulations, and more.

Learning to code offers all the benefits of learning more traditional skills, while also preparing young people to move into an increasingly digital future. Novice coders will develop problem-solving and computational thinking skills as they discover what makes a line of code or a computer program work. Learning from their mistakes along the way, campers will develop perseverance and take pride in all they’ve learned when they see the working computer programs that they helped to make.

While your Maccabiah camper is still quite a few years away from college and the workplace, learning coding skills now may help set them apart from other applicants when the time comes. It may even spark a lifelong passion your camper never would have realized they had!

We’re so excited to get our new Coding program started this summer and can’t wait to see what our young computer scientists create! 

Learn more about all of our camp programs at camp.sijcc.org!