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is the VOA Special English Education Report. (MUSIC) Millions children in the United States go to summer camp. go to play outdoors at traditional camps in the , in the mountains or on a lake. But families have many choices of specialty camps. These can be the middle of nature or a big city. Specialty offer young people the chance to learn about different . Anything from space exploration to business to medicine. In camps, one subject that children can learn about is game design. They learn how to use computer programs create games of their own. One program that teaches game design is called Cybercamps, located at the University Maryland. Children can learn how to design their own worlds to set their video game in. Then, they their own rules and objects into the game. Cybercamps offers courses in robot building and Web design. A story in the Washington Post described how one child a robot that could sing a song. Another made robot that could follow a black line drawn on piece of cardboard. Also, children can learn how to Web sites. One child made a site for Pokemon, of his favorite cartoon shows. Kids-N-Technology is a day offered in several American cities. Boys and girls age to eighteen get the chance to build their own or laptop computer or game machine. They take it after the camp is over. In the past twenty , the number of day camps in the United States grown by almost ninety percent. Still, more than half all camps are overnight camps. But the American Camp says, over all, the most popular length of time kids to attend a summer camp is one week less. And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, by Erin Braswell, with music from the best of Sherman. To learn about American education, and for transcripts archives of our reports, go to voaspecialenglishcom.. I'm Bob .

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