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

Tech Soup

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. Forming Stronger Support for Computer Science.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? b) Content. As part of the prize notification, the winning individual or group will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and a publicity release (where legal).

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. ” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. THREE GENERATIONS.

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Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. " Theres a "Teen Grid" that eliminates this completely.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

In California. The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. We''ve focused on farmworker communities--there are so many kids in these communities throughout California. It thrives. In a Community Science Workshop.

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2.0 at Work: Why You Should Use Flickr

Museum 2.0

Your boss is in California picking out antique fountains. Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Urban Decay") that encompass a wide variety of content. And you can make it private or public, flexibly. I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal.

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