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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Forage Oakland project.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

Hospitals need to supplement the traditional "pink lady," with volunteer opportunities for teens, baby boomers, and people in their 20s, 30s, 40s. For example, after our conversation, I checked out the volunteer opportunities at one of my local hospitals, the Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland. online marketing).

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

Have Fun - Do Good

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Nonprofit Website Overview.