This is awesome idea. Kudos to the teenagers who are organizing this event. I hope they can get the word out to a lot of teens who would make use of and enjoy this event.

Take it from an old hand, coding is VERY tedious work. Most teens won't like that sedentary aspect of it.

It would be a very rare, patient teen indeed who can settle down and attend to computer languages and coding.

Most people don't discover a talent for it until they have settled into their mid-to-late twenties.

Is this truly the students' idea or something cooked up by a college admissions' coach. Sorry, but these days you always have to wonder.

Resume building.

Unless there's a goal, coding isn't very exciting. Computers are very stupid and very literal.

Sure enough - schools about to start and Tiger moms are rising again...
"they were encouraged and influenced by friends and family to take the available computer science classes at Paly. Wang's mother works for a software company, while Zhang's mother works in finance and her father in nuclear physics.

Also, a lot of parents feel that living in this area has already exposed their kids to tech in such "a large way" that it is smothering them.
They feel their kids have already spent way too much time spent in front of computer screens.
It's no longer interesting since they have been exposed to computers since elementary school.

A lot of kids rather be outside playing and passively exploring the environment and nature (rather than code).

"We thought it would be a really good idea to expose teens to computer science in a large way," she added.

To each his own I guess

I think that when kids get back to school and start asking each other what they have done during the summer, there will be a lot of envy for those who say they went to the beach, went camping, saw movies, went swimming, grilled hotdogs at the park, made Smores in the backyard, etc. etc. Summer is for making memories with buddies.

There's still a few weeks left. Let the kids have some fun.

I think this is a terrific idea and am so impressed with these students. To those who disagree, then just don’t let your kids go! Why you feel the need to put down these innovative children is beyond me. Shame on you.

I was also a computer programmer years ago but I never pushed it on my son. But thanks to Josh Paley, who is an awesome teacher at Gunn, my son developed his own interest. He also goes swimming, travelling, to baseball games, etc in the summer, but if a child enjoys this too then what’s wrong with doing both?

Kudos to these kids!