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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley.

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Ali Forney Center Saves Time and Effort with Norton Security

Tech Soup

Transgender teen Ali Forney fled his home at age 13. Operating 12 branches throughout the boroughs of New York City, the Ali Forney Center was founded in 2002 in his memory. When marriage equality passed in New York State, the center's waiting list went from 150 to 220 youth and remained at this level for several weeks.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. How frequently did we email? Oh the hours!!

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. How frequently did we email? Oh the hours!!

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ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

Museum 2.0

I don't usually fist-pump while reading the New York Times. But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. Here are a couple of things I’d like to see: Labels that instruct you where and how to look.

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

Museum 2.0

One such example was at the New York Historical Society's exhibition Slavery in New York. Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. How often does your enemy acknowledge you? Lesson 3: Indifference is bad.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” Talk to the folks at Instructables. Are you a quilting or textile museum looking for fresh blood?

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