I’ve been following the proposed takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft.  A lot of people are wondering what this would mean for Yahoo.  Yahoo’s stock price has shot up, Microsoft is down.  Google, of course, opposes the prospective takeover, citing concerns over the “overwhelming share of instant messaging and web e-mail accounts” that would be controlled […]

Many of you know that iD Tech Camps has been working with the American Camp Association for years. In fact, iD Tech Camps has more ACA Accredited sites than any computer camp in the country. I wanted to take this opportunity to let people know that the ACA runs a dynamite summer […]

Happy Thanksgiving!
On Monday, Alexa (iD Co-Founder and CFO) and I sent out a newsletter via email to our current summer camp clients and those that have expressed interest in our summer computer camps and video game camps.
In the newsletter, we highlighted our HoliDay Special along with the big announcement of using some of […]

Wow, It’s November 1!  Our registration is now live and parents are saving some big bucks!  The phones were ringing off the hook today.  Exciting!  The most popular question we are asked when we are out and about doing camp fairs is “what do you do in the off season?”  We are asked the question […]

Our summer camps have wound down.  We’re now in development mode for the 2008 season.  With thousands of kids attending our program each summer season, we now see our role in developing future IT talent to be all the more relevant. 
Being a Silicon Valley-based company, there is not a day that goes by where […]

Multitasking is every day life here in the Valley–and so many other places in this day and age:  Running a computer camp company, dropping the kids off at pre-school, getting to the grocery store, commuting to work, interruptions on the cell phone…they all add up.  How do I manage it all?  Well, here’s what I […]

Hello iD Nation! 
I roam the office a lot here at iD.  One of my employees mentioned in passing that one of her friends (a recent college grad) now works at Google.  She went on to explain that her friend also attended iD Tech Camps when he was a bit younger.  Her friend’s name is Jasper.  Should […]

I am very pleased to announce that our 2007 catalog is now available…two weeks ahead of schedule. 

If you have requested a catalog previously, then you’ll be receiving one in the mail shortly.  I tell my staff every year that one of the reasons we are successful is we re-write our business plan every single […]

Taking a few weeks off for vacation is so, so important. It changes my whole outlook on so many things. I start to see the world in vibrant colors again…not just muted colors. Vivid reds and greens and blues and oranges. Bold colors. We work so hard for so […]

Hello iD Nation,
We sent a few representatives down to scout out the CES show in Las Vegas. We send our people down to continually keep an eye out for the latest trends in consumer electronics, gaming, etc. This is a really cool email we got from Boy Wonder down in Vegas. […]