Ready for the future: getting kids excited about technology and entrepreneurship with nextgeneration summer camps

65 percent of children now entering elementary school will work in jobs and functions that do not exist today. Education for the talents of tomorrow plays a central role. digitalswitzerland therefore encourages children and young people to participate in the "nextgeneration"The "nextgeneration" initiative offers the robotics camp at the MINT&Pepper (developed by ETH), the coding camp Codillion and the Ginger Entrepreneurship Camp. The platform also promotes the summer camps of the EPFL, the TEENformatiCAMP of the SUPSI and ICT Scouts & Campus.the children and young people benefit from a unique learning experience around topics such as programming, computational thinking, problem-solving skills, teamwork, entrepreneurship and innovation.Pascale Vonmont, CEO of the Gebert Rüf Foundation and member of the digitalswitzerland Executive Committee explains: "We want to awaken curiosity and interest in areas where we will need a lot of expertise in the future. The summer camps enable children and their families to deal with seminal topics in a playful and educational way."Learn how to build or program a robotThe "nextgeneration" summer camps take place in different languages and cities: Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Manno, Muttenz, St. Gallen, Zug and Zurich. In full- or half-day programs and during one week, young people can interactively discover new topics and exciting opportunities to shape their own future. The first "nextgeneration" summer camps begin in June.Patrick Warnking, CEO of Google Switzerland and member of the digitalswitzerland Executive Committee: "The future belongs to those who can handle anything digital with ease, master computational thinking and work well in a team. What you learn during childhood and adolescence helps you in adult life. The time to awaken young people's interest and passion for these topics is right now. "More information about the summer camps is available here.