https://blackrocket.com In 2002 Sarah Zengel and her father, Bill co-founded a digital arts technology camp for children. They named it Black Rocket, after her first dog, a black labrador retriever named Rocket. Sarah started the business when she was about ten. They had four campers in a loaned store front. Bill, a copy writer at a major ad agency, borrowed an LCD and laptop from his office and t
hey taught the four kids "Lightz! Action! - How to Make Your First Movie!"
Today Black Rocket has grown in leaps and bounds and our camps can be found where the computer meets creativity and solely focus on self empowerment for children. We're the fastest growing enhanced education children's enrichment program on the East Coast with plans to be on campuses around the world shortly and have an "Innovation Institute" open in a few years. Today we are located on 250 campuses in four countries with a seasonal staff of 500 artists in residence, technologists, and academics. About 200,000 children have been brought through our 30 STEM programs. Over rhe last two decades we have worked with the US Government and NASA on enabling science for children; conducted virtual programs for girls in Afghanistan and the Frankfurt International School; created custom curriculum for special needs children; taught inuit children in Alaska and incarcerated youth skills to get a job. Bill is now serves in an advisory capacity while his partner, Richard Ginn, a former Teacher of the Year Award at what US News calls the best High School in the country, runs Black Rocket as they expand into game based learning, esports, and online learning.
