Youth technology mentorship program

Nowadays, jobs require technology skills ranging from intermediate to advanced. This usually

involves knowing specific applications, devices and software. Employers are looking for job

applicants who have computer skills that helps their companies to remain competitive and relative. Today, inner city youth’s ability to compete with their counterparts in life (especially in the job market)

is compromised because of their lack of :

1.  Utilizing Office Suite Programs – Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook
2. Understanding Adobe Suite Programs – Reader, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Writer, Dreamweaver
3. Creating Websites, Software Applications (Java, C++, Sql, HTML, Python)
4. Knowing Operating Systems – Mac OS, Windows, Linux
5. Collaboration and Communication Tools – Zoom, Skype, MS Teams

What we aim to do in partnership with non-profit and businesses is to make up the technology divide between inner city youth and their suburban counterparts by:

A) Working with schools to identify students that need laptops, tablets and other devices

B) Petitioning nonprofit organizations for funding to purchase computer equipment,  and oversee the distribution of  said hardware to the students who need it along with full accountability

C) Offering ‘How to Sessions’ for students to learn computer networking, while installing Windows; Mac

operating systems, installing computer applications, identifying hardware, maintaining computer hardware and software as well as troubleshooting and resolving hardware and software issues.

D) Utilizing remote software that will allow us to access computers at the homes of handicapable and other

students that are unable to physically attend our technology classes.