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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Let us know in the comments! Additional Resources.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. CyberMentors is an anti-bullying app, which focuses on building self-esteem, confidence and helping to make people feel safe. learning to build apps now because, well, they can." have access to the tools to play, create, and build. Before, app.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? We start with the community and build to projects. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Build community. Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate. Empowerment? Cheer for each other. But I''ve learned that humans can be agents of scale too. Social bridging?