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