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

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With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

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awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Some of the apps created by youth who have completed the program include: Buzzer Buddiez is a unique alarm app that uses voice-recording and a buddy system to help you get up in the morning. is an organization based out of Oakland, California.

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Hospital Volunteering: 3 Things You Didn't Know & How the Web Can Help

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I didn't, until I talked last month with Joan Cardellino, the Director of Volunteer Services for the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. The state of California alone has over 100,000 hospital volunteers. She has been in the field of volunteerism for the past 30 years. Orientations and trainings (i.e.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

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It's another to have the education to support that desire, to support that change, and so we're looking at long-term, sort of systemic and generational change, not necessarily just short-term fixes, and that takes pretty profound work and education to do. And then, of course, we have a strong commitment to economic development, as well.

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Solutionary Women: Nola Brantley of the Scotlan Youth and Family Center

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She's a foster care youth, which means she's part of the system. prostitution teen Oakland Unfortunately, Alameda County doesn't have a safe house, although it is an essential component to the girls' being able to change their lives, as Nola explains, "If there was a 14 year old girl, let's say she's a foster care youth.

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