The “DigitalCUrrents” labs bustle with activity. A high school aged camp counselor shows a group of middle school students how to install a brand new motherboard in a desktop PC; a middle school teacher practices professional movie-making techniques she has just learned from a university professor; high school teachers and college students plan a digital recruitment video; middle school and high school campers design network systems blueprints for industry experts’ approval.

From June 7 through June 25, DigitalCUrrents Summer Camp will once again bring participants together in a unique environment to produce projects using multimedia and computer systems. Campers will take advantage of cutting edge facilities on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado and at Denver North and Thomas Jefferson high schools. Everyone becomes an instructor at some time or another in the three weeks, but all of that learning doesn’t get in the way of everyone having lots of fun.

This year, the third year of operation, DigitalCUrrents Summer Camp adds a new strand to its program. As in past summers, some of the campers will plan, edit, and produce digital videos with musical backgrounds. But this year, participants in a Technical Support strand will design, build and implement an office computer system for a local non-profit organization.

Under the auspices of the Jared Polis Foundation, Tech Support campers will manage a simple technology installation project including everything from the essentials of PC refurbishment to network design. At the end of the three-week DigitalCUrrents camp, ONE, the cooperating non-profit organization, will have an operating office full of networked PC computers.

DigitalCUrrents is a cooperative effort between the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) through their Technology and Media program, and the Denver Public Schools Computer Magnet program. Support for the program comes from the National Science Foundation, the Colorado Institute of Technology, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Apple Computer.

For more please call Gary W. Goodnight at Thomas Jefferson High School, 303-691-7149.