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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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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. " Powered by CDI , Apps for Good is working with youth in the UK to teach them how to. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Craft parties.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life. Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Michael Soto traveled to every corner of Arizona to facilitate a comprehensive arts education program he designed.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Craft parties.

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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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