CodeNow Teaching Inner-City Teens How to Code and Program
Technology has become imperative in children’s education today. CodeNow, a non-profit organization that provides free computer science education to inner-city youth recognizes that. CodeNow is a Washington, D.C. based program that targets high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 to low-income students, as well as girls and other minority groups that are [...]
Read MoreBio Pharmaceutical Tech Center and African American Ethnic Academy Encourage Young Scientists
The Bio Pharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI) has once again teamed up with the African American Ethnic Academy (AAEA) in Fitchburg, Wisconsin for a science program that encourages young future scientists to express and develop their creativity in numerous ways. This year’s theme is “Healthy Bodies: On Earth and In Space.” The AAEA and the [...]
Read MoreRace, Ghettos, Facebook and MySpace
Is MySpace really the ghetto of social networks? Are the people using Facebook really smarter? Researcher danah boyd (who does not capitalize her name, a la bell hooks) seeks to answer these questions, at least where teenagers are concerned, in a new paper, “White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook.”
Read MoreCreating a new generation of technology entrepreneurs Part 2: Consumption vs. Creation
Last week was Global Entrepreneurship Week across the globe. You can read all about it here. But I’m sure you all knew that already because you’ve seen the bus loads of inner city kids being taking to events to help them understand what entrepreneurship is all about or you have had to sign permission slips for them to participate in workshops to show them how easily they can create tech start-ups. (I really wish that were the case)
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