From Levin to Silicon Valley - YouthTek and JuniorTek
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From Levin to Silicon Valley Showing youth down a technology pathway Joanne Dillon Te Horowhenua Trust
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Sharing our YouthTek and JuniorTek school holiday programmes for Intermediate and Secondary School students interested in technology
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From Levin to Silicon ValleyShowing youth down a technology pathway
Joanne DillonTe Horowhenua Trust
The HorowhenuaPopulation = approx 30,000
About Te TakereThe Purpose
About Te TakereThe Building
About Te TakereThe Culture
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
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
Levin to Silicon Valley?
Levin to Silicon Valley?
But wait, there’s more
The budget$0
Social Sector Trials
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”
The budget
$14,000
$7,000
YouthTek programmeHTML 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>
YouthTek programmeVersion control with GitHub
YouthTek programmeGameFroot
JuniorTek programmeAssembling and programming robots
• BrainBoard robots (Arduino) lent by MindKits• Programming Arduino• Hour of Code using Scratch
JuniorTek programme
YouthTek trainers
JuniorTek trainers
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.
Swag
The icing on the cake
The icing on the cake
The icing on the cake
The JuniorTek14 roadtrip
Key relationships
Other relationships
Relationships with Youth
From Levin to Silicon Valley?
The key to success• Encouragement and support of management• Funding• Hard work• Big goals• Strong relationships with partners• Project and event management skills
Some tips• Be brave and take risks• Aim high• Expect things to go wrong• Have backup plans• Engage with schools early on
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!
