Utah Kids Code Camp
resource active confidence: Medium status: Draft updated 2026-08-11
Summary
Utah Kids Code Camp is a free, volunteer-taught coding camp for children aged 5 and up, run by Utah Geek Events and held at Neumont College of Computer Science in downtown Salt Lake City. The captured public evidence establishes the 2026 event in detail; whether it recurs annually is not verified here.
Who It's For
Children aged five and older across experience levels, with a family able to bring a laptop. Because the tracks span Scratch through Unity and Arduino, it serves both a five-year-old's first encounter with programming and a teenager who already writes code.
It is equally a resource for volunteers. The organizer recruits helpers without prerequisite expertise and frames it as a way for new developers and college students to build a résumé while giving back (2026 announcements).
What It Provides
The 2026 schedule included classes using Scratch (four progressive levels), Python, JavaScript, Minecraft, Godot, Arduino electronics, MonoGame, Unity 3D, and Roblox, organized into multiple parallel sessions. A setup/install session runs beforehand for families who need help getting tooling working, and a "project help" track covers children stuck on something from an earlier session.
How To Use It
Treat the linked event as historical and check Utah Geek Events for a newly published session before planning to attend. Registration is required and free.
Bring a laptop — computers are not provided, and this is the most common way to arrive unable to participate. The venue is 143 South Main Street, Salt Lake City; there is no Saturday street parking downtown and no validation offered, so the organizer suggests City Creek Mall, the Regent Street lot, or the train.
To volunteer, watch the Forge Utah Slack #localevents channel, where the calls go out — including, in 2026, an urgent one four days before the original date.
Cost / Eligibility
The 2026 event page stated that all classes were free and that participants needed to bring a laptop.
Best Fits
Families seeking an introductory, project-based coding event rather than a semester-long course.
Evidence
- Source: Kids Code Camp 2026 event page · https://www.utahgeekevents.com/events/kids-code-camp-2026/
- Source: Kids Code Camp 2026 announcements
Open Questions
- Will Utah Geek Events offer another camp, and what age, equipment, and registration rules will apply?
- How many children attend? No enrolment or turnout figure appears in any located source.
- How many years has it run?
kidscodecamp.orgredirects to the current year's event rather than to an about page, and no history page was located. - Why was the 2026 camp moved from June 20 to August 1? The reschedule was announced by striking through the old date, with no reason given.
- Is the volunteer shortfall structural or a one-off? The organizer described the June date as "critically short of help" — a real signal about the staffing model, but a single observation.