"StudentCamps - Empower Your Students to Organize Their Own Regional Technology Conference"

David Nielsen
Co-Founder
CloudCamp
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"Camps" are community-organized conferences lasting 1 to 2 days, often on weekends. They often are hosted at community colleges, run by community members & include job-
related emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, mobile applications, mass collaboration, cyber security & system administration. Students are getting involved. Some have organized their own camps. We will discus how faculty can encourage & perhaps even participate in these student-run technology conferences.

While many of these camps are run by volunteers from the professional community, students are getting involved too. Some students are even organizing their own camps. This should be encouraged and perhaps even supported by schools around the world.

Join us in a collaborative session, run in true camp style, as we discuss the benefits and
challenges of community-organized technology conferences run by students. How:
 Use best practices learned from organizers around the world
 Student organizers use free online and on-site tools to share responsibilities with attendees, speakers and other conference participants.

Benefits include:
 Utilize existing community college classroom assets
 Students not only gain valuable education from professionals, but also develop organization and communication skills.
 Emerging tech topics proposed by professionals are complementary to college courses.