Reviews

Toby had a great time at the 3D games Design week

Toby had a great time at the 3D games Design week, he enjoyed it a lot and had quite a decent game by the end of the week that he was reasonably pleased with – important to me, to know that he found some friends to play with in the breaks which was really key to making it much more interesting an...

Toby had a great time at the 3D games Design week, he enjoyed it a lot and had quite a decent game by the end of the week that he was reasonably pleased with – important to me, to know that he found some friends to play with in the breaks which was really key to making it much more interesting and stimulating.
We find coming to Barbican super convenient and the venue was great (maybe playground a bit small, but I didn’t actually see it?).
I did think maybe the more round table room layout you used to have at City Girls school was a bit better than the classroom lecture set up of the room, I am not sure Toby cared that much but I think he maybe got to know less people this time (?), he commented to me that all the helper/teachers were so very kind and lovely – this has always been the case and it really makes Funtech so good, so overall we absolutely love FunTech thank you.
I noticed only that we didn’t get a t shirt this time at the end. I wonder if you do ice breaker stuff at the start of the week with the kids in the break, maybe some outdoor games or learning each others names or something could make the group bond a bit more easily, Toby is pretty shy and it would possibly help him – he always gets to know the people sitting right next to him the best otherwise.
For Toby, he really is devoted to Minecraft and Redstone still, even though he is 13 – he would definitely come along if you ran a more grown up Minecraft course because he is now too old and has done them all, it looks like his options are to do something more like a coding course eg. Python as a 13 year old.
Many thanks and long may Funtech continue, we have been coming every year and went to everything we could think of so far, hopefully we can find a good course at Barbican again next summer!

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Wonderful first camp experience

My son attended FunTech for the Minecraft Mod camp as his first sleep away camp experience. He adored it and can't wait to come back next year.

Fun at FunTech

Chloe thoroughly enjoyed her Python Coding residential camp. She has done a little bit of Python coding before so the tutors adapted her tasks to make them a little more challenging. She learnt some new coding skills but, most notably of all, she had fun !

It was probably her favourite camp ever

Ayesha loved Funtech and also enjoyed Lego camp last year.
She has since been coding at home, and learnt a lot at camp.
She also enjoyed working with and learning from the other students at Funtech.
It was probably her favourite camp ever.

Engaging course and worthwhile holiday activity

We thought the course was well organised and run.

The student care was very good with the inquiries about how to improve the experience for us.

Our son's only criticism was the 8 hour length facilitated by a lot of breaktime which is more challenging to fill for older teenagers.

Everything was great

Feedback from Jamie was that "everything was great”. I don't think we can get more granular that this!

Brian enjoyed the FunTech camp

Brian enjoyed the FunTech camp because it taught him new stuff about Python.
And he met new friends there.

Lewis thoroughly enjoyed the Python course

Lewis thoroughly enjoyed the Python course. He learnt a lot and his teacher was good. Lewis would now like to do weekly courses with you.

Will recommend to all of my friends

I was really happy with everything about Austin’s touch typing course. He had such a great time with everyone and the teachers he was working with were absolutely perfect. Young, enthusiastic and really motivating. They put so much effort into make sure the children had a good time whilst also ...

I was really happy with everything about Austin’s touch typing course. He had such a great time with everyone and the teachers he was working with were absolutely perfect. Young, enthusiastic and really motivating. They put so much effort into make sure the children had a good time whilst also learning valuable skills. At first I did think that the course was very expensive, but to be honest, in hindsight – it was worth every penny. He even won a £60 amazon voucher for coming top of his group which was such a lovely generous surprise and completely unexpected. I will be booking again and I will recommend you to all of my friends.

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Hackathon Northwood 1st-5th August 2022

Hackathon was a great introduction to cyber security and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed it.
It was delivered efficiently, professionally and with aplomb by the Funtech team right from enrolment through to completion.
I would highly recommend this course to others.

My daughter made me promise not to pick her up early!!

My daughter joined the Minecraft Mod Developer course this summer for a week. She loved it! She bounded in every morning and didn’t want to leave a minute earlier than necessary. She is pretty familiar with playing Minecraft, yet this course helped her to to combine her creativity with new tech...

My daughter joined the Minecraft Mod Developer course this summer for a week. She loved it! She bounded in every morning and didn’t want to leave a minute earlier than necessary. She is pretty familiar with playing Minecraft, yet this course helped her to to combine her creativity with new technical knowledge to create her own gaming characters, and some very cool building blocks. She wants to try coding next year - and her younger sister is desperate to join her. The venue was very conveniently located for us in the Barbican, the staff pleasant and knowledgeable. I felt my daughter was in good hands all week.

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Perfect week!

My two sons had a perfect week with FunTech, they really enjoyed the lessons, the instructor was kind and knowledgeable, they learned a lot. They will be back next year!

Great fun

My son really enjoyed the Python camp. He learned so much over the week and is now feeling really confident going into his ICT classes at school next year. The instructor was particularly nice and patient and made it a really happy week.

Fantastic Python coding camp for children

Our son attended Python coding day camp, which was fantastic! After a couple of days, he asked the instructor the name of the software they were using, and he wanted to practice coding and learning more on his own at home! He loved it so much that we signed him up for the next day camp. The camp...

Our son attended Python coding day camp, which was fantastic! After a couple of days, he asked the instructor the name of the software they were using, and he wanted to practice coding and learning more on his own at home!
He loved it so much that we signed him up for the next day camp. The camp location is also convenient for us and they offer early drop off and late pick up!

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Excellent

This was my son’s first Funtech course and he thoroughly enjoyed it. He learned a lot about game design and he’s now enrolled on another programming course. Definitely worth it !

Superb Experience

Joshua attended the 1-week residential course 'Hackathon - Cyber Security' at Tonbridge School. Joshua enjoyed himself thoroughly, and the course was everything we'd hoped for. The balance of social activities, interaction with other children, and supportive instructors was excellent. A holida...

Joshua attended the 1-week residential course 'Hackathon - Cyber Security' at Tonbridge School. Joshua enjoyed himself thoroughly, and the course was everything we'd hoped for. The balance of social activities, interaction with other children, and supportive instructors was excellent. A holiday, where academic learning occurred every day, and independence flourished for our child. Plus, top quality accommodation and food. Thank you, FunTech, for investing the effort to get it right.

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Lego robotics camp

My son has enjoyed the Lego robotics camp with fun tech, he talks about what he has learned and wanted to book sessions. Staff at Barbican location are very friendly and organised. Thank you so much.

Funtech Cybersecurity course

The course has useful content as the kids understand the vulnerability of networks to hacking, learn about the concept of cybersecurity and how to distinguish between different hacking types. The course equips them to an extent with the skills to perform certain tasks related to cybersecurity. T...

The course has useful content as the kids understand the vulnerability of networks to hacking, learn about the concept of cybersecurity and how to distinguish between different hacking types. The course equips them to an extent with the skills to perform certain tasks related to cybersecurity.
The tutors were knowlegeable and friendly including those part-time tutors who are still undergraduate students.
The facilities were superb, including the single occupancy dormitory and the airconditioned classrooms, and even though the hardware was not always up to the requirements of the course, there were only minor issues and Funtech is committed to source more powerful macines next time.
I could not comment much on the activities offered as my son preferred the option of "sit in the shade" in the afternoon rather than engaging in the field games, but given this year's very hot weather, this was not for the lack of the choice but due to his preference.
Thank you for running this course after Covid delays, my son enjoyed it a lot.

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Outstanding opportunity

Our 10 year old returned today from the 3D game design residency at Tonbridge School. His experience has been extraordinary. We have never seen him so enthused about the way in which computing can be used. The teachers have managed to combine his innate love of narrative with the complexities of ...

Our 10 year old returned today from the 3D game design residency at Tonbridge School. His experience has been extraordinary. We have never seen him so enthused about the way in which computing can be used. The teachers have managed to combine his innate love of narrative with the complexities of Unreal Engine. He made a game - a real computer game! Remarkable. We were nervous about him going away and not knowing anyone there, but he has forged some great friendships in just a few days. The opportunity to do scuba diving in the evening and play dodge ball were also highlights. All in all, we haven't heard a negative word. And of course, he wants to go back next summer. Thanks so much to everyone at funtech, I am really grateful our child was able to have this experience and would book it again in a heartbeat.

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Minecraft with mods

George has had a really great time on his residential trip. He has felt really comfortable with all of the staff and his fellow moders.
He wants to come back next year too.

I loved it!

I loved it here at Funtech, everyday we learned something new and we got to create some kind of project using those codes.
And the tutors, Hafsa and Ben, helped us if we needed help.

Holiday camp

Really efficient service and my children had a fantastic time and came home buzzing!

Absolutely wonderful experience

This was my son’s first residential camp and after all the lockdowns, it was a huge step for him to go away from home for a week. When I booked him onto the course, it was because he needed help with his Python because he chose Computer Science as a GCSE, however what I hadn’t anticipated was th...

This was my son’s first residential camp and after all the lockdowns, it was a huge step for him to go away from home for a week. When I booked him onto the course, it was because he needed help with his Python because he chose Computer Science as a GCSE, however what I hadn’t anticipated was the huge life learning experience and independence gained from doing a residential course. The pastoral team were utterly amazing. They kept the kids busy in the evenings and they had loads of opportunities to mix and let their hair down after learning Python during the day. My son said he feels much more confident in his skills and when I asked him if he would do it again, he said “I think so” this is huge for him because he normally fobs me off with an “I’ll think about it” in the hope I will forget the question! This is the whole package - an absolutely wonderful experience from top to bottom. Thank you!

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nice

Positive and encouraging tutor. course is engaging even online, as there are plenty of questions for everyone.

I loved it

This course has been an amazing and helpful experience, the tutor has been extremely helpful and encouraging and explained very confusing topics in an amazing way. The exercises were well designed for the given topic and the videos were very helpful and informational. If I had to change one thing...

This course has been an amazing and helpful experience, the tutor has been extremely helpful and encouraging and explained very confusing topics in an amazing way. The exercises were well designed for the given topic and the videos were very helpful and informational. If I had to change one thing I would decrease the amount of tkinter used but overall I loved it especially with such an amazing tutor.

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It was fun and engaging. Learnt a lot in the process

Engaging introduction to machine learning

This course was a great introduction to the concept of machine learning, starting off with simple examples and then moving onto more complex programs. It was easy to ask for help and the teacher was always extremely helpful. I feel it has improved my ability to problem solve, as well as providing...

This course was a great introduction to the concept of machine learning, starting off with simple examples and then moving onto more complex programs. It was easy to ask for help and the teacher was always extremely helpful. I feel it has improved my ability to problem solve, as well as providing me with important programming skills which I will use in the future.

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its amazing

The camp was amazing an i learnt lots of things including, classes, random numbers, while loops and much more! the rooms were really nice and so were the room mates. the teacher were really nice and fun
10000% recommend.

arabella

love it all

arabella

love it all

Dima

I had fun(tech). i loved learning how to crack password hashes and getting usernames without entering the virtual machine (computer). it was my favourite course yet. if i could i would rate it 15/10

good

It was good

My funtech jouney

The coding was very fun and interesting. The activities after lessons were very fun and enjoyable. The teachers were clever, helpful and funny. The dorms were nice and spacious, but it would be nice if there were sinks in the bigger rooms. Over all, I really liked the course and I would definitel...

The coding was very fun and interesting. The activities after lessons were very fun and enjoyable. The teachers were clever, helpful and funny. The dorms were nice and spacious, but it would be nice if there were sinks in the bigger rooms. Over all, I really liked the course and I would definitely come back.

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My funtech experience

My experience at this camp was amazing! I can see why it is called FUNtech. I really enjoyed using our ip addresses to message ourselves from different servers and learning the features of cowsay. My favourite part was when we were able to hack passwords using only hashes. I would definitely reco...

My experience at this camp was amazing! I can see why it is called FUNtech. I really enjoyed using our ip addresses to message ourselves from different servers and learning the features of cowsay. My favourite part was when we were able to hack passwords using only hashes. I would definitely recommend funtech to anyone and I will certainly be back for another course next summer!

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Great.

My room was so nice and the staff were lovely. More gluten free options though, my sister didn't have a lot to eat. The course was fun and the tutors were really helpful, I learnt a lot. Just my class were a bit loud so I could not concentrate as much but that wasn't their fault. Overall really fun.

nates rveiw

6th week was amazzing robin and isaac we the best tutors i could i ask for and all in all i had an amazing week

My Experiance At Funtech Camp

The staff wore amazing they understood when I was confused and helped me when I was stuck. I had so much fun doing the activities as well as this being a very fulfilling experience. I feel like I learnt so much! ...

The staff wore amazing they understood when I was confused and helped me when I was stuck. I had so much fun doing the activities as well as this being a very fulfilling experience. I feel like I learnt so much!



Thank you Funtech!

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great use of my holiday!

i spent a week doing a cyber security course and it was great fun, I'm glad i spent my holidays doing it

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rhys breverns review

Throughout, the week I had an overall positive. i enjoyed pretty much every meal during the duration of my stay and had fun socialising, coding and playing games. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn about python because I learnt a lot and had a fun doing it.

Python OOP2

I've learnt so much over the past week which I'm sure will help me with my computer science GCSE and beyond! The tutors were really enthusiastic and helpful, not only during lessons but also at break and lunchtimes where we played fun group games. thank you! :D

Python-OOP

Max was always helpful when I needed help and always explained everything clearly and helped me learn lots of new things. All of the teachers were all accommodating and made me laugh lots of times. All the teachers made it very fun to learn and were great.

python OOP

Python OOP was very fun, are teacher Max was very nice and humorous and helpful. I highly enjoyed the week, the other teacher Hamza and the Leader Midé, were also very funny and I enjoyed playing card games with them like cheat throughout the week.

I leant so much more than I thought I would!

This course has taught me so much about cyber security and I can definitely take this further if I want to, which I really do. The day is well structured and the material taught is very thorough and informational. There is lots f information to absorb but my teacher gave me a cheat sheet to take ...

This course has taught me so much about cyber security and I can definitely take this further if I want to, which I really do. The day is well structured and the material taught is very thorough and informational. There is lots f information to absorb but my teacher gave me a cheat sheet to take with all the commands on, this really helped. The only improvement I have is to increase the number of tutors on a course. I only had one and this was a problem at times when everybody needed help on different things. I would highly recommend Funtech and this course to anyone. This was not my last time here, for sure!

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My Amazing FunTech Week

Very Fun (Tech) haha, I got to learn so much including scripting, Contraints and many more. I really enjoyed developing my own game and hopefully i can do it again in the future

Python OOP

It was very fun, I really enjoyed this week, although some parts were slightly confusing

PythonOOP

The Python OOP is a fast-paced course but also a well explained course. It propels your knowledge of python in one week and the constant screen breaks help reduce eye strain but also to just have a bit of socialising.

I really enjoyed it and now I can play a fully functional game

Throughout the week you have helped me learn a different variety of techniques, that helped build up to a fully-functional game. Thank You FunTech!

funtastic

funtastic

Feelings about it

Fun and Hard, I liked all the breaks and the learning experience, now I can do quite a few things on python, or, more than I could last week. Good week

Abosolutelly the best

i loved it and i will do more A.S.A.P