SCOTT BRYANT/Statesboro Herald staff
Published: Jun 10, 2025, 10:28 PM
🔗  https://www.statesboroherald.com/local/techie-camp-kicks-off-its-fourth-year-at-willow-hill-center/

The Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center launched its Techie Camp in 2022 under the leadership of the late Gayle Jackson, Ph.D., in partnership with TECH CORPS, a national K-12 computer science education nonprofit group, and sponsored by the Nordson Corporation Foundation.

Now in its fourth year, the camp has grown into seven weeklong camps, each with its own theme and focus, open to third- through eighth-grade Bulloch County students at no cost to participants.

Through hands-on, interactive STEM-related activities, students take a deep dive into subject matter focused on Robotics, Programming, Android App Development, 3D Printing or Digital Animation and emerge with skills that are useful in today’s classroom and tomorrow’s workplace.

(Above) Techie Camp staffer Jalen Harris, a student at South Carolina State University, collects game worksheets from campers. 

(Top Right) Deshawn Simmons, a Georgia Southern double major in computing and electrical engineering from Milledgeville, top right, helps Camden Owens, 12, and his fellow campers design and download games they created during Techie Camp at Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center on Tuesday, June 10. In its fourth year, the camp has grown into seven weeklong camps, each with its own theme and focus. 

(Bottom right) Cameron Atkinson,12, takes in some YouTube videos on a camp-issued computer during recess break at Techie Camp at Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center on Tuesday, June 10. Each camper is supplied with a computer. 

(Bottom left) Blaine Smith, left, and Jalaya Ellis, both 12, download the games they just created during Techie Camp at Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center on Tuesday, June 10. 

(Bottom right) Jesiah Stewart, 9, center, peeks over as Mason Smith, 10, sketches out his ideas for a retro video game during Techie Camp at Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center on Tuesday, June 10. 

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