Code
The Code Behind the Server
Every request, every response, every video stream starts as real Python code students write in the same tool professional engineers use every day.
How Streaming Really Works
Build Your Own
Streaming Server
Students build a personal streaming server inspired by how platforms like Netflix and YouTube deliver content.
ages 8–14No experience required1:8 instructor-to-student ratioHands-on, system-basedDates: June 22 – July 2, 2026Hours: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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Real Outcomes
What Your Child
Will Build
Students will design and build a working streaming system, including:
Video Delivery
A video delivery system
Content Server
A server that hosts and manages content
Media Interface
A basic interface to access media
User Connections
A system that connects users to content
By the end of camp, students understand how platforms like Netflix and YouTube deliver videos because they have spent two weeks building their own streaming server from scratch.
Camp Preview
Watch the Camp in Action
Students build the pieces behind a real streaming platform and see how servers, interfaces, and devices work together to deliver media across a network.
Inside Our
Curriculum
Real curriculum samples used to teach programming, robotics, and AI, developed and produced in-house by our team.
Inside the Curriculum
Meet Korra
The AI learning assistant that guides students as they build real technology with Python, robotics, and AI.
Inside the Curriculum
Meet the Development Team
These are the twelve roles involved in building real software, and the twelve roles students will learn to take on.
Curriculum
What Students
Learn
Students are introduced to the core ideas behind modern internet systems:
Python Programming
Python programming to build and run a streaming server
Servers & Storage
How servers store and deliver data
Network Access
How users access content over a network
Requests & Responses
How systems manage requests and responses
Real Engineering
Built with Real Technology
Not Simulations
Students do not use simplified demos or pre-built apps. They work with real concepts and tools used in modern systems, including:
Hardware
The Hardware
A real Raspberry Pi runs the whole streaming server. Students wire it, configure it, and watch it deliver video across a real network.
Runtime
The Server in Action
A live dashboard shows the server serving real traffic. Students watch requests arrive, get handled, and leave with the video the user asked for.
Playback
The Streaming Experience
Students open the interface they built and watch video stream from their own server to their own screen. Their system. Their code. Their stream.
This is how real internet systems work — adapted for students.
The Big Picture
Why This
Matters
Most students stream content from platforms like Netflix and YouTube every day. They tap play, and a video appears. What very few learn is how the system on the other end of that tap actually delivers it.
In this camp, students build it. They run a real streaming server on a Raspberry Pi using Python, load it with their own video library, and serve it across the network. By the end of camp, they can watch from any device in the house, all flowing from hardware they configured themselves.
Students will leave camp as builders of real streaming servers,
not just subscribers to them.
Structure
How the Camp
Works
Core hours: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (extended hours available for an additional fee)
+
Tuition
=Registration Fee
$50
(due at sign-up)
Payment Date
$650
charged June 1, 2026
Total
$700
($350/wk × 2 weeks)
Discounts
Available
10% OFF
Military families, veterans, and first responders
15% OFF
Sibling discount
15% OFF
Enrolling in more than
one mini camp
Discounts do not stack. Only one discount applies per enrollment, whichever is greater. The Robotics and AI: PiCar Camp runs during the same six-week window as the mini camps, so it cannot be combined with them.
Audience
Who This Camp
Is For
Ages
ages 8–14
Experience
Beginners with no prior experience
Interest
Video systems, servers, or coding
Your Instructor
Taught by a
Real Engineer
Taught by a college professor, a university lecturer, and an engineer
SWC: Programming, Computer Organization, and Architecture
SDSU: Microprocessors
16+ years of real-world engineering experience
NIWC Pacific, unmanned systems, software design
Students use real tools and technologies
Python, Docker, Raspberry Pi, networking
University-level concepts adapted for students ages 8–14
Rigorous curriculum, not watered-down activities
Students are learning how modern internet systems are built — from someone who works with them professionally.
Give Your Child a Head Start in Technology
Programs fill quickly.
Register NowSummer 2026 · Hosted at Southwestern Community College · Chula Vista, CA · ages 8–14