911, a media arts center in South Lake Union, provides the community - and teens - with access to media tools and space to finish and display projects. Members can rent field equipment and use the center's editing suites, shooting space, and screening room. An animation lab is available to members of all ages.

Youth programs include the Young Producers Project, a program for middle- and high school students that introduces them to media literacy through alternative forms of media production. Media Underground is a weeklong intensive workshop for teens. Professional videomakers teach kids how to deconstruct media, design and storyboard a short video, and operate professional digital video cameras. Other youth programs are listed on the website - click on the "Youth" tab.

The college's Early Learning, Family, and Childcare Center offers daycare children ages three months to six years; parenting classes and education; and an on-site Family Resource Specialist who can answer parenting questions.

The new facility features original artwork incorporated into the playground outside, as well as colorful climbing structures.

Although the daycare's slots are reserved for students at BCC and Coscto employees, members of the public can put their names on a waiting list for future openings.

BCC's North Campus offers summer classes for children ages 12 to 17 in subjects including computers, art, languages, PSAT/SAT/WASL preparation, and more. Check the website for details.

Children's Technology Workshop offers hands-on, high-tech engineering and technology programs. Programs include instruction programming computer games; creating digital animations, stop motion films, and digital art; robotics; and engineering projects.

The summer icamp program offers students the ability to customize their own curricula, choosing from a wide range of activities, including computer game creation, stop motion animation, digital art, graphic design, and LEGO based engineering and robotics projects. Project themes include video game creation, animation, fashion design, architectural design, mission to Mars, expedition Egypt, and team F1.

During their participation in the icamp program, students are provided with laptops, robotics equipment, cameras, and digital drawing tablets.

Camp sessions are available at several locations around Seattle, including Edmonds, Mill Creek, Bothell, Redmond, Bellevue, Issaquah, Sammamish, Mercer Island, and Renton.

Children's Technology Workshop offers hands-on, high-tech engineering and technology programs. Programs include instruction programming computer games; creating digital animations, stop motion films, and digital art; robotics; and engineering projects.

The summer icamp program offers students the ability to customize their own curricula, choosing from a wide range of activities, including computer game creation, stop motion animation, digital art, graphic design, and LEGO based engineering and robotics projects. Project themes include video game creation, animation, fashion design, architectural design, mission to Mars, expedition Egypt, and team F1.

During their participation in the icamp program, students are provided with laptops, robotics equipment, cameras, and digital drawing tablets.

Camp sessions are available at several locations around Seattle, including Edmonds, Mill Creek, Bothell, Redmond, Bellevue, Issaquah, Sammamish, Mercer Island, and Renton.

The Community Center at Mercer View is open daily and offers beautiful views of Lake Washington and the Cascades. The two-story facility features meeting rooms, an arts and crafts area, an indoor art gallery, health, fitness, and dance rooms, a game room with foosball, board games, pool, and cable TV, free Wi-fi, and a children's play area.

The second largest community center in town, Rainier offers a family center, before- and afterschool care,
day camp, teen and pre-teen programs, sports, late night recreation (Fri & Sat), and a variety of special events.

The staffed indoor playground, for infants to five-year-olds, is open for drop-ins on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 10am-1pm, for $2/child ($1 each addition child). Parent or caregiver must remain with child.

The mission of the Technology Access Foundation is to prepare all under served children, particularly children of color, for higher education and professional success by providing a rigorous and relevant K-12 curriculum.

Program offerings emphasize building confidence, having fun while learning, providing a gateway to higher education, and creating opportunities for young people to work alongside technology professionals.

TechStart offers a free after-school program for children in grades K-8 that strives to improve problem solving skills, to empower students to use technology as a learning tool, to increase math literacy and reading competency, and to prepare students for advanced opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math.

TAF also offers a Technical Teens Internship Program and a Higher Ed Bound program.

Summer camps offerings (for children entering sixth through tenth grade) include Sports Tech I and Sports Tech II, and Wild Rides Skills and Thrills. Each of the camp programs integrates fun activities and physical fitness with science and technology. Teens can play sports while learning about the physics of body movement, learn boating skills while gaining an understanding of the science of the human body and boats, and enjoy amusement park rides while learning about the engineering of the machines. Summer camps are fee-based, but limited scholarships are availble.