# Source: Kids Code Camp 2026 announcements (Forge Utah Slack) **Type:** source **Status:** Useful **Confidence:** Medium **Source Type:** testimony **URL:** https://forgeutah.slack.com/archives/CHNQPPQKB/p1785250179864269 **Publisher:** Forge Utah Slack, #localevents **Raw:** raw/utah-kids-code-camp-2026-announcements/2026-08-11-ef75c8f48948.txt **Updated:** 2026-08-11 **Relates:** cites [Utah Kids Code Camp](utah-kids-code-camp.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/utah-kids-code-camp.md ## Summary Four announcements posted to the Forge Utah Slack `#localevents` channel by Phil Gilmore between April and July 2026, covering the 2026 Kids Code Camp: registration opening, a volunteer call, a cancellation-and-reschedule, and an urgent second volunteer call. They carry two things the event page does not: that the camp **moved from June 20 to August 1**, and that it runs on volunteer labour that was, at one point, critically short. ## Useful Claims - Registration for Kids Code Camp 2026 opened in April 2026, originally for **Saturday, June 20, 2026**, at Neumont College of Computer Science. - The camp was **rescheduled to August 1, 2026**. The reschedule was announced on 2026-05-18 by striking through the original date rather than by any explanation of cause. - The organizer publicly described the event as **"critically short of help"** four days before the original June date, and issued a second volunteer call for the August date. - Volunteers are recruited without prerequisite expertise; the organizer frames volunteering as suitable for new developers and college students building a résumé. - The camp is free to attend and registration is required. ## Verbatim Each quote carries its speaker, channel, workspace, and date, because Slack message history is not durable and the quote has to stand on its own once the original is gone. Slack link markup is reduced to plain text; nothing else is altered. > Kids Code Camp 2026 has been rescheduled for Aug 1! > — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-05-18 > We are critically short of help for our Kids Code Camp event THIS WEEKEND! Saturday, June 20. This > is not only a great way to give back to the community, it is also a great opportunity for new > developers or college students to pad their resume! You also don't have to stay for the whole day if > you have other things going on. > — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-06-16 > Join us for a day of coding for kids! For all kids ages 5+ . > Date: Saturday Aug 1, 2026. > Location: Neumont College of Computer Science > — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-07-28 That message's headline, which carries Slack italic markup and so is not reproduced literally above, reads: *August 1st - Please share the flyer and spread the word!* > The calendar is missing my Kids Code Camp event! June 20. > — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-06-16 ## Reliability Notes The Forge Utah Slack is an **open community workspace**, joinable by anyone from the foundation's homepage, and `#localevents` is a public announcement channel. These are promotional posts explicitly asking readers to "share the flyer and spread the word" — public in every sense that matters for citation. What makes this `testimony` rather than `official-page` is durability. The permalink resolves only once you are signed in, so no script can fetch it and the Internet Archive cannot snapshot it, and Slack retention will eventually remove it. Hence no `**Retrieved:**`, no `**Archive:**`, no `**Raw:**`, and quotes long enough to survive on their own. These are the organizer's own words about his own event, so they carry no independent authority about the camp's quality or turnout. What they carry is a **history the event page erases**: the published 2026 page shows August 1 as though it were always the date. Without these messages the reschedule and the volunteer shortfall are unrecoverable, and both bear on whether the camp is robustly staffed. The last quote establishes a small structural fact: the camp's organizer found his event missing from a Utah tech calendar, showing that the two efforts are not automatically connected. ## Related Pages - [Utah Kids Code Camp](utah-kids-code-camp.md) - [Source: Kids Code Camp 2026 event page (Utah Geek Events)](utah-kids-code-camp-event-page.md) - [Utah Geek Events](utah-geek-events.md) - [Forge Utah](forge-utah.md)