The hands-on workshop provides a free workshop only for teenage girls so they can learn that technology is cool. The technology workshop will integrate fashion and DIY hardware ie. LED lighting, Andrino and other computer technologies. The attendees will learn first hand that technology is fun and has future job opportunities In addition the attendees will blog their experience on a WordPress site, Facebook page and a Youtube Channel
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Our vision is to create teenage user friendly language, imaginary, graphics and video editing style which make the resources, video clips, audio recordings and blog postings appealing to the larger community. The Wordpress template will be hosting on a VPS hosting site to protect it from hacking and secure membership enrollment. All user submitted content will be monitored for content appropriateness to the community standards, ie language
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities(FBSC) will feature this project with it's WWOEM Magazine on Women and Technology and plans to Partner with:
IEEE Canada Foundation -Financial support
IEEE Toronto Chapter- Volunteer facilitators
Durham Computer User Club-Mentors
HACKTO- Maker Lab in Toronto
Oshawa Girl Guides-Participants
Oshawa Library-Space and Participants
Durham School Board- Technology In-services for girls
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We expect to have 100 girls from 10 to 16 years old enrolled in the program. In the case of Girl Guides the organization issues a ‘Merit Badge” for participation which they earn upon completion of the course and fulfill the online obligations. In addition we will work the school boards and local library to coordinate the workshops the public sessions. We will seek donations for prizes for the top three projects
Organization
Foundation for Buuilding Sustainable Communities
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