Minecraft and coding camp at the Schwarzhorn
Waldstetten, GermanyForscherfreunde
- Latest published dates
- Aug 2 – 8, 2026
- Duration
- 1 week
- Ages
- 10–14
$812
Course price for 1 week
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A one-week residential IT holiday camp for children aged 10 to 14 at the Schwarzhornhaus, a timber group house nearly 700 metres up on the Rechberg in the Swabian Alb. Minecraft building and coding sessions alternate with an outdoor programme built around the Schwarzhorn nature high ropes course, a hike to the open-air pool at Waldstetten, and team and outdoor games. The group cooks for itself in rotating kitchen groups and is supervised around the clock. Participants travel to and from the camp themselves; cars can go only as far as the Tannweiler car park, from where it is a walk of about 750 metres uphill.
Language
German
Program type
Science / STEM Camps
Accommodation
Hostel
About
About the Course
The camp runs Minecraft building and programming programmes for beginners and advanced participants alike. Children develop their own ideas and projects on the computer, guided by the operator's team, and the operator rotates several Minecraft programmes so that the content differs between departures.
What’s Included
The school offers a special discount — ask us for details. The operator states that there are no hidden costs: accommodation, catering and all activities are included in the price. Travel to and from the camp is arranged by the family and is not part of the package. Supervision is provided around the clock. Cancellation is free of charge up to six weeks before the start of the camp.
Accommodation
Participants sleep in multi-bed rooms in the style of a youth hostel, in seven- and eight-bed rooms. The operator notes that the number of children sharing a room can vary depending on bookings. The group stays at the Schwarzhornhaus group house in Waldstetten.
Meal Plan
Catering is included in the price for the whole stay, as part of the operator's all-inclusive package.
Activities & Excursions
Alongside the computer programme the week includes a natural high ropes course with seventeen exercises, outdoor games and team action, climbing and campfire evenings. The operator presents the mix of screen work and outdoor adventure as the point of the week.
Facilities
The Schwarzhornhaus is a group house set in a nature reserve at almost seven hundred metres above sea level, with its own natural high ropes course and plenty of space to play both indoors and outdoors.
Camp Experience
The week combines building and programming with outdoor adventure. The operator describes children developing their own ideas, growing beyond themselves and taking home real moments of achievement.
Language Camp prices
Minecraft IT programme
16 Lessons · 10–14 yrs · All levels2026 price
Four Minecraft programmes are published for this camp: an introduction to mods programming; building complex machines in Minecraft; automating the city of the future with command blocks; and Mods Entity, an introduction to AI. The programme is chosen during booking and the operator notes that not every programme runs in every camp week. Sessions are run for beginners and for more advanced participants.
The IT programme runs in blocks of about one and a half hours. The children are split into two groups that alternate between the IT sessions and the leisure programme, so both groups cover the same content, partly at different times; meals, the evening programme and the main excursion are shared by everyone. In the operator's sample weekly plan each group has about 16 hours of IT sessions over the week, with no session on arrival day and a short final session on the last morning before departure. The operator notes that the plan is an example and may vary.
Building and programming in Minecraft: an introduction to mod programming, building complex machines, automating a city of the future with command blocks, and entity mods as an introduction to artificial intelligence. The aim is for children to develop their own ideas and learn by building, balanced against an outdoor holiday programme.
Daily Schedule
Breakfast
07:00–08:00
Classes
08:30–12:30
Lunch
12:30–13:30
Dinner
18:30–19:30
Evening activities
20:00–22:00
Lights out
22:30
Included items
School
Forscherfreunde
Forscherfreunde GmbH is a German camp operator from Leimen near Heidelberg that runs IT and technology holiday camps for children and teenagers. Its residential programmes combine Minecraft building and programming with a full outdoor holiday-camp schedule: team games, excursions and evening activities, with round-the-clock supervision. Camps run at several locations across Germany, each hosted in a youth guest house, and the published price covers the IT course, accommodation, full board and the entire leisure programme. The operator also offers day camps without accommodation, online workshops and programmes for schools and companies.
