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BIG IDEA (previously known as "eCamp") and also known as " The Hashtag Camp", is an English speaking international Jewish summer camp located in Israel, focusing on technology, media arts and gaming. The campers, aged 7 to 18, attend workshops in subjects such as digital music composition, video editing, game design, programming, digital comics and mobile application development. BIG IDEA's program blends the technological workshops with a traditional American-style summer camp experience, held in three 2-week sessions each summer. The staff includes Israeli and international counselors who speak English, French, and Hebrew. The counselors are graduates and college students, some of whom did their military service in technology units of the Israel Defense Forces.〔http://www.kcjc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=562:ecamp-the-ultimate-summer-experience-in-israel-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=27〕 BIG IDEA's current location is Meir Shfeya, a residential youth village near Zichron Yaacov. Until the summer of 2011 it took place at the Alonei Yitzhak youth village. 〔(Jewish hi-tech summer camps )〕 == History and recent activity== BIG IDEA was founded in 2007 and under the name "eCamp" as a division of Oranim Educational Initiatives Ltd. (Known today as Israel Way Educational Tourism), by Dotan Tamir and Oranim’s president Shlomo (Momo) Lifshitz. The vision was to create a place for Jewish kids and teenagers from Israel and around the world where they can connect and strengthen their Jewish identity while gaining skills in the field of hi-tech.〔http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=186065〕 eCamp's first session took place In summer 2008, with part of the campers coming from cities on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip. Those campers were sponsored by Jewish organizations in the United States such as the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federation of the Metropolitan of Detroit.〔http://www.haaretz.com/news/jewish-hi-tech-summer-camps-invest-in-your-children-1.268817〕 In the summer of 2009, the amount of participants in the camp increased, and also included a group of teens from the Jewish Agency Partnership 2000 project, from Netivot, Israel and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania partner cities in the Jewish Agency Partnership 2000 project. Every year since the first, eCamp saw a growth in the number of participants and variety of countries of origin. After summer 2013, the founder of eCamp and the whole team continued the operation of the international technology summer camp in Israel under the name "BIG IDEA", as a division of "BIG IDEA Educational Projects Ltd." (founded by Dotan Tamir and Erez Roll). Since then the camp kept growing and established other programs such as the Cyber Camp,〔5. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BIG IDEA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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