Doing business as GoodWinterCrops and as 6crickets, the firm is structured around enabling parents online to identify and qualify summer camp and other child focused actviities available locally in spreadsheets organized by factors like interests, distance and time constraints: interests, distance and time constraints. In 2014, while trying to plan camp activities for her own child, founding President felt there had to be a way to avoid the headache and scheduling nightmare that can come with planning a summer-camp schedule across different websites with different registration forms. Armed with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, the founding president of 6crickets combined her two worlds to create an online marketplace offering a one-stop site for scheduling summer camps. Using a spread sheet format, the site is free for parents use: income is generated from camps using the services. Using artificial-intelligence features, system also can build a suggested camp schedule based on preferences: interests, location and timing. Users who want to plan their own options can manually piece together a schedule. SIte can also be used to find after-school enrichment programs with use of the site donated to schools to create their own scheduling tools for after-school programs.
