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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

Tech Soup

Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs.

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs.