I went last year!
So, is it worth it? probably
You dont learn much about technology, but you learn about the field. I have my schedule still with me, so if you have specific questions, just pm me.
There are about 1500 kids that go, and they fit all of you inside a hotel. Typically 2 -3 people per room. They divide everyone into "tech talk groups" which are like little chat groups basically. Every day basically follows the same pattern:
*wake up around 8.
*get breakfast.
*tech talk for about 1/2 hour.
main "plenary" - this is when they take everyone into one big room and have very important people give speeches. Last year, they had CEO of intel, CEO lof lockheed martin, some high ranking person from Cisco, lead programmer of S2 games, lead designer of the team that made StarWars Galaxies, and a few others.
*tech talk
*lunch
*evening activity - this is something different every day. one day you visit a local college (Berkely, SJSU, etc), one day was a A's baseball game, one day was Santa Cruz beach, one day was the San Fransisco boardwalk.....
*from here one it depends on the evening activity, there was usually another tech talk session, and dinner.... everyone had to be in bed by 11.
so, thats the daily schedule, um.... there are some crazy networks setup, i have a couple pics if you want them, though i dont have them scanned yet...
but the lan rooms have about 40 computers per room in them, all decent enough to run CS, UT, Q3, ut2k3..... so they arent bad, at all. Most of the time people were playing CS (fags).
the only thing i was dissapointed about was i didnt learn to much about technology, just the field. but it was still fun to go. pm me if you have anymore questions
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