Tech Camp’s mission is to ‘inspire tomorrow’s inventors’, which is achieved via its engineering, coding, IT and technology-related holiday camps. Building robots and rockets, learning coding skills, designing computer games, getting stuck in to 3D design, electronics and model-making are some of the activities like-minded students enjoy at Tech Camp. All projects involve innovative take-home projects. Tech Camp is the UK's original and longest-running provider of such camps, which students can attend in either Winchester (residential) or London (non-residential). Students from across the UK – and from further afield - attend the camps and learn from tutors with bright, young minds and a passion for the techie world. Tutors are carefully selected based on their specific technology-related skills, their love of the tech-industry and their genuine ability to inspire tomorrow’s inventors. In fact, some of the tutors are ex-Tech Camp students themselves, who are now reading relevant subjects at the likes of Cambridge and Imperial. Tech Camp was founded by Tom Ward, an Electrical Engineer who previously worked as Head of Science at Elstree School, Berkshire. Tom is a self-confessed ‘techno-nerd’ and proudly admits he was a bit of a boff from school days. He was a national winner of both the "Beyond 2000" science competition and the DDIAE computing competition whilst at school in Australia. More recently, he has been a winner of the “Circuit Cellar” Electronic Design Competition in the US. Tech Camp promotes diversity at its camps – and is keen to inspire all students with a love of techie things. On a broader level, it supports and encourages students to study the broader STEM skills, because of their importance in future careers and for the UK economy as a whole.