Like all good stories, ours is a little complicated.

Fast-forward three years, and I found myself at a startup designing robotics curricula. With the structure of a good curriculum behind it, the students enjoyed it even more. And just as importantly, I fell head over heels for tinkering, building and playing with technology myself.

Then, in May 2018, my wife Caitlin and I ran our very first Think Camp at the Science Centre in Cape Town. It was an instant hit, and it spawned a migration up to Joburg, where we ran camps every school holiday right up until January 2020. Then: Covid.

Over the (almost) three years Think Camp ran, we worked with more than 2,864 students across 123 camps. Our campers built apps, programmed robots, designed games and did all manner of incredible things in Minecraft. It was exhilarating.

But as one chapter closes, another opens. Think Camp pivoted to become RocketHour, an online digital academy that has now worked with over 1,500 students in coding, app development, game design and agentic engineering. The project grew, my family grew, and there was simply no room left for camps. Until now.

This June, Think Camp returns, back to its home in Cape Town. Across a five-year hiatus we’ve stretched the limits of what’s possible online with RocketHour. But there is so much more left to do that can only happen in real life, in the format of Think Camp.

Agentic AI is causing an earthquake across the tech landscape. We have big ideas for how to introduce it rigorously, in a way that empowers young people and gives their creativity somewhere real to go. And, personally? I’ve missed this work. I am so excited to be back.

With RocketHour to keep us busy in term time, I’m not sure we’ll grow quite as big as we once were. But if we can run tight, bespoke camps that thrill students, delight parents and open young minds to their own creative power, then I, for one, will be very happy.