From Levin to Silicon Valley - YouthTek and JuniorTek
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- 1. From Levin to Silicon Valley Showing youth down a technology pathway Joanne Dillon Te Horowhenua Trust
- 2. The Horowhenua Population = approx 30,000
- 3. About Te Takere The Purpose
- 4. About Te Takere The Building
- 5. About Te Takere The Culture
- 6. What is YouthTek? Technology-focus • School holiday programme • 14 secondary school participants • Free to attend • Run like a professional conference with swag and catered breaks
- 7. Why run YouthTek? • Opportunities not usually available in a small town • Funding mostly goes to troubled youth or those in sporting or cultural activities • Supporting education • Showing youth that they are valued by Te Takere • Positive activity for youth • To inspire youth to work hard and aim high
- 8. Levin to Silicon Valley?
- 9. Levin to Silicon Valley?
- 10. But wait, there’s more
- 11. The budget $0 Social Sector Trials
- 12. Relationships - funders “Thank you so much for getting in touch about YouthTek. I'm part of the GitHub community team; it's lovely to meet you :). YouthTek sounds like such a valuable initiative and we'd love to help support you! Money first - would $1000 USD help?” “We're so pleased you got in touch with us about this. We're genuinely delighted to be able to help”
- 13. The budget $14,000 $7,000
- 14. YouthTek programme HTML and CSS <h2>About YouthTek</h2> <p>YouthTek is a school holiday programme for secondary school aged students with an interest in a career in the IT profession. It took place for the first time in April/May 2014.</p> <h2>YouthTek14</h2> <p>Tutors from Auckland, Wellington and Levin came to Te Takere to teach 14 local youth HTML, CSS and GitHub (web development languages and tools) and Gimp (graphic design).</p>
- 15. YouthTek programme Version control with GitHub
- 17. JuniorTek programme Assembling and programming robots • BrainBoard robots (Arduino) lent by MindKits • Programming Arduino • Hour of Code using Scratch
- 21. Relationships - trainers “What you guys plan on doing sounds great! I'm sure we'd love to help.” – Gather “Your program looks really neat - I run Rails Girls here in Wellington and could definitely be interested in running a half-day or full-day workshop” – Rabid Technologies “I'd love to attend and I'm pretty sure we can make one of those dates work. I'd be happy to look at doing a game creation workshop - either half day or full” – Gamefroot AND…they all offered to do it for travel costs.
- 22. Swag
- 23. The icing on the cake
- 24. The icing on the cake
- 25. The icing on the cake
- 30. From Levin to Silicon Valley?
- 31. The key to success • Encouragement and support of management • Funding • Hard work • Big goals • Strong relationships with partners • Project and event management skills
- 32. Some tips • Be brave and take risks • Aim high • Expect things to go wrong • Have backup plans • Engage with schools early on
- 33. What next at Te Takere? YouthTek15 & possibly JuniorTek15 SeniorTek – digital heritage project Maori, Pacific Islanders, Primary school children, preschoolers, unemployed, community groups… Horowhenua is our oyster!
- 34. Questions? Joanne Dillon aka JD @JDsTwitticles joanned@tetakere.org.nz
Editor's Notes
- Aging population High unemployment Low qualifications Low income Lower than national average internet access
- Building, purpose, culture (children/youth and staff) and charity status
- Building, purpose, culture (children/youth and staff) and charity status
- Building, purpose, culture (children/youth and staff) and charity status
- School holiday programme 14 participants Free to attend Run like a professional conference
- Opportunities not usually available in a small town Funding mostly goes to troubled youth or those in sporting or cultural activities Supporting education Showing youth that they are valued by Te Takere Positive activity for youth
- Opportunities not usually available in a small town Funding mostly goes to troubled youth or those in sporting or cultural activities Supporting education Showing youth that they are valued by Te Takere Positive activity for youth
- Opportunities not usually available in a small town Funding mostly goes to troubled youth or those in sporting or cultural activities Supporting education Showing youth that they are valued by Te Takere Positive activity for youth
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- Management Hard work Funding Building strong relationships
- Youth Parents Schools Tech industry (Gather, Weta, VUW, Instinct Entertainment, DK) Funders
- Management Hard work Funding Building strong relationships
- Take risks Aim high Have fun Expect things to go wrong Engage – schools, partners, etc.
- Potential to work with various demographics within our community. Comes down to resources – funding and time
- Take risks Aim high Have fun Expect things to go wrong Engage – schools, partners, etc.