Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. success stories july14contest Local impact map youthorg'

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Sponsor Map San Francisco Community 52

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. We discovered that teens felt uncomfortable in the galleries because they had to check their backpacks and they felt the guards were watching them. Some things move at different paces.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? What if the government said you had to?

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Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. The waypoints could be put into a file (.gpx

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Museum Teen Arts Project 20