MAX hosted its second annual week-long technology camp geared towards teaching local high school students the fundamentals of various areas of information technology. The camp was designed to go beyond the standard curriculum of programming that students are accustomed to and introduce them to other topics that are not generally covered in depth at the high school level. Students from three high schools in Maryland and Virginia learned the basics of networking, the OSI model, building a web server using LAMP software, using Apache Tomcat to run Java code, routing protocols, cloud systems, and OpenFlow. MAX plans to offer this free camp every summer.

“I enjoyed setting up the routers because it gave me more insight on how many connections really were required to maintain something like the Internet. It made me appreciate the complexity of things.”
(Megan C.)

“I enjoyed making the website that connected to others locally.”
(David Z.)

“I liked setting up servers and the server software, as well as learning about networks and routing. These topics were useful to me since I had wanted to learn how to set up a web server properly.”
(Scott W.)

“Learning about cloud computing and playing around with Mathematica was interesting.”
(Andrew H.)

“Working with LAMP was the most enjoyable because I did my part all by myself.”
(Alex Z.)