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Geek Squad Summer Academy

Best Buy’s Geek Squad continues its quest to demystify technology and nurture innovation, this time empowering middle- and high-school level girls and boys it the Camp Pendleton area.

The Geek Squad Summer Academy program™, now in its 6th year, is a community-supported tech camp during which local Geek Squad Agents join forces with Camp Pendleton to engage young people in the surrounding are, in a multi-day experience teaching them to use technology to spark their inner creativity and nurture innovation.

In addition to the Pendleton camp and other cities nationwide, the Geek Squad Summer Academy program this year will host five customized sessions on military bases around the country to support tech education for children of military family members.              

Find out what's happening in Oceanside-Camp Pendletonfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

The Geek Squad Summer Academy program is unique for bringing knowledge to youth in their communities, rather than the other way around. Tailored for students in and around the Camp Pendleton area, camp sessions will feature customized modules that dive deep into computers, smart phones, MP3 players and other devices so students literally get into the guts of the technology they use every day.  Children of military family members, ages 9-18.

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