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Connects Donating Computers to the families surrounding Gads Hill in PILSEN did not just provide free computers to families it launched two consecutive summer Robotics programs at the agency. The students of Gads Hill then made another donation with YTC's help. Youth at Gads Hill start to construct Arduino powered cars to race in Gads Hill Summer Showcase

YTC BENEFITS Community Building & Good Citizenship Community Building & Good Citizenship Without ever charging for a program or an experience, over 2,500 YTC students have refurbished and donated over 4,000 computers to 40+ communities in North America, offering free summer computer camps to more than 325 youth from more than 30 communities in seven states. With the launch of our virtual synchronous peer learning, Arduino curriculum YTC looks to introduce STEM learning across the country. GROWING FUTURE TECHNOLOGISTS More than 65% of students will work in jobs that don’t even exist today. YTC prepares them for that future by getting them excited about where technology can take them through hands-on, skills-based learning, and how their efforts can benefit others through community-based advocacy. ​ INCREASING ACCESS TO STEM BASED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES YTC delivers technology-based, workforce development programs through clubs, camps, and competitions that connects to reach thousands of students every year, with a focus on those who are underrepresented in the field today. ​ STUDENT ENGAGEMENT MARKET OPPORTUNITY According to ACT data, not enough U.S. students are equipped for STEM opportunities now or in the future. YTC provides the means to improve STEM achievement and expand opportunities to increase students’ readiness to pursue and succeed in STEM-related careers through Clubs, Camps, & Competitions. ​ PROMISING PRACTICES Through a central hub, YTC clubs, camps, and competitions receive access to guidance, curricula, standards, and participation in YTC events. ​ BUILDING BRIDGES YTC has developed the tools, portals, and plans that help schools and communities start and sustain their own YTC Technology Clubs. ​ ​ YTC FACTS ​ YTC clubs, camps, and competitions serve at-risk middle & high school students in partnership with community mentors and volunteers. . YTC provides at-risk youth with STEM learning, good citizenship, and recycling practices while bridging the digital divide in the communities where they live. ​ YTC and its partners work together to unite YTC and its clubs, camps, and competitions into a central hub that offers guidance, curricula, standards and participation in all YTC events. Communities around the world can join, and receiving help starting and maintaining a YTC club. YTC alumni are pursuing or have received technology-related degrees at colleges and universities including the University of Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Binghamton University, Stanford University, Northern Illinois University, DePaul University, and many others. ​ . We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston S. Churchill We Need Your Support Today!

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TitaniumTech Competition ​ Every spring, YTC hosts "Titanium Tech Competion” where students from each club compete for the championship. The team to repairs their computer the quickest wins. Participants represent our Charter clubs, select local and regional clubs, and a select delegation from YTC Durango. The students enjoy spirited competition, engaging collaborations, and cultural exchanges. ​ Students work hard all year honing their skills to participate. Each club chooses its best students for each team testing their ability to work together learning about quality control, conflicts, and time management. Winners are recognized while earning mini-grants for their individual clubs. TEAM DURANGO 2019 COMPETITION Titanium Tech Competition will be designed to be: ​ A part of a club’s activities A fun way to learn new skills A source of pride for medalists ​ YTC’s Titanium Tech Competition consists of: Build a computer from a pile of parts and boot it up Troubleshoot a sabotaged computer and boot it up Computer Jeopardy – explain key terms & concepts in rapid fire questions A Robotics Competition A fun, exciting event with unlimited potential!

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In 2020 & 2021 YTC launched a virtual summer robotics camp for 30 youth in the Chicagoland area. In 2022 those students are ready to be the instructors of as many as 250 new students in Chicago and across the globe. Tour our "Free Summer Program" pages and if you feel you could host a program, then let us know if you want to join us. Apply Here Our Concept This is the power of our approach, using student teachers to introduce Arduino's to underserved communities all over the country and beyond. It’s a concept that worked well in our pandemic-inspired model and now we are testing its scalability. It’s a system where every student becomes a teacher with the opportunity to be rewarded for helping the community grow. In honing this approach, not only are we introducing new students to a STEM Education, but we are also building leaders and problem solvers who are prepared to take what they have learned and build a career path in a technology-driven economy. Developing The Program We’ve been working on this for a few years. YTC’s clubs in Cicero and Evanston IL added robotics in 2017 and YTC students taught robotics to our partners in Durango, Mexico, teaching the class in Spanish on Zoom in 2018. YTC held two virtual summer camps in 2020, 2021 served 65 students and despite the challenges of distance, culture, and sometimes language over seventy percent of students completed the program. In the process YTC has created a team of experienced student leaders and teachers ready to lead the new expansion. You are in Good Hands We are not going into this alone. The students you recruit to join us are in good hands. YTC has a vision that ensures every community has access to a digital future, and through grass roots contributions, we have been able to reach more teens, more families, and more non-profits who may otherwise not have access to today’s modern digital tools. However, for this new expansive effort we have engaged Left Bank Consulting as supporting YTC’s strategic growth. This includes managing the 2022 Introduction to Robotics Summer Camp. Marc Siciliano, Founder and CEO of Left Bank Consulting is an international education consultant with three decades of experience supporting teachers, schools and school districts to improve and adopt STEM strategies.

OUR PARTNERS CORPORATE, COMMUNITY & GOVERNMENT PARTNERS Partnering with YTC connects your business to today’s up and coming IT talent. Joining the YTC team increases your business value and helps to shape the future of the IT workforce. Sponsor innovative learning projects in your community NOW! ​ Supporters have included: Stable Road Foundation Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation JP Morgan Chase and Co. Best Buy American Honda OfficeMax City of Chicago U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Dev. Ald. George Cardenas (Chicago – 12th Ward) Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky ETHS Booster Club Sargent Lunday Chicago Community Trust Springboard Foundation The Finnegan Family Foundation Evanston Community Foundation (ECF) John Kimmel Memorial Fund of the ECF Friends of YTC (individual donors) Com Ed Kluth Family Foundation After School Matters IREX Lighthouse Rotary US Department of State Sponsor YTC

(Below) In advance of the May 7th event these young students from District 65's Camp Kumba visit the YTC Clubroom that will become their Summer Camp Stem Room staffed with YTC Student Instructors Learning Centers $1000 (Three rooms available) Help us out by sponsoring one of our three adjacent classrooms . ​ Classroom One: Staffed by Club Members and Volunteers who will be building computers the entire day getting them close to donation ready. Our Future Heroes and Computer Recipients will be able to tour the room and receive previews of the refurbishment process prior to their summer training. ​ Classroom Two : In this room our guests will be able to get some hands-on experience, in opening the computer, taking out/installing the hard drive, and Ram ​ Classroom Three : In this room, our Future Heroes will be introduced to their new computer and learn how to operate the device. They will be given a short lesson on computer literacy and start to personalize their machine. Partner Booth $500-$2000 (three booths available one shown here) Do you provide a computer-related service, or software that our clients may be interested in? We will have a semi-private booth for your product or service. Help us serve our community or find low-cost solutions for connectivity or security for these deserving families. Summer Teachers $3000 YOUTH sponsor provides 5 student teachers stipends for facilitating refurbishment classes throughout the summer. (Four available) Hardware $1500 Technology Sponsors allows YTC to purchase hard drives and peripherals for donated desktops Volunteer support $800 Corps Sponsors We need volunteers to help with computer refurbishment, client services, event staff including set-up and clean-up. Can you sponsor a group in this effort. Volunteers cost money, there’s training supervision and refreshments. Media Tech Support $500 Media Sponsors (two available) Although we will be inviting News outlets and ETHS will be covering the event. We hope to hire our own photographer for both video and photos. We may have to hire an AV dedicated expert to run the video presentations if we don’t end up with a well-suited volunteer. Every little bit helps Heroes Wanted $500 Community Support Each one, Tech One Thank you for supporting us. $100 Family Support This represents one more Family connected $25 is an affirmation that we are starting to reach like-minded individuals ​

​ · Congratulations to Prosper Tornyi who has been selected for the 2022 Community Engagement Exchange (CEE) program in the United States. Prosper is the founder & Executive Director of Proswrites Foundation. He hopes the program will empower him to organize digital lab for youth, women and girls to strengthen their problem-solving skills, foster community engagement skills through digital literacy, mentorship and leadership training. This program, sponsored by the U.S. government, equips emerging civil society leaders with the expertise, resources, and skills to support resilient communities around the world. It will among other things, strengthen participants’ ability to lead collaboratively and ethically, while addressing issues of public concern Press Release from US Embassy of Ghana Prosper leads YTC Connects Program YTC Connects targets Evanston, Haiti, and Mexico and joins the Proswrites Foundation in its mission to serve the people of Ghana. Prosper has strengthened our YTC Clubs, increased our membership, and built a network of partnerships while he has been here. He will oversee our late November event to re-introduce our giving program that had gone virtual during the pandemic. The Proswrites Foundation Named after the founder, Prosper Tornyi who believes that writing and more broadly education is a powerful tool to combat oppression. Proswrites Foundation is a community-centered, youth empowerment organization based in the North-Tongu District, Battor, Ghana. Using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) outlined in the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda as a basis for its initiatives, the Proswrites Foundation launches projects focused on inspiring, equipping, and supporting youths and students to become doers and change-makers in their community. Proswrites Foundation

What do you think so far? The future is now: Imagine a growing number of student-teachers teaching and mentoring their younger brothers and sisters in robotics. And through their teaching, our youth open the door to every family, youth group or school, regardless of location. Offering an introduction to STEM related careers is essential and YTC believes it van open these doors with this accessible and affordable approach.

In 2020 & 2021 YTC launched a virtual summer robotics camp for 30 youth in the Chicagoland area. In 2022 those students are ready to be the instructors of as many as 250 new students in Chicago and across the globe. Tour our "Free Summer Program" pages and if you feel you could host a program, then let us know if you want to join us. Apply Here Our Concept This is the power of our approach, using student teachers to introduce Arduino's to underserved communities all over the country and beyond. It’s a concept that worked well in our pandemic-inspired model and now we are testing its scalability. It’s a system where every student becomes a teacher with the opportunity to be rewarded for helping the community grow. In honing this approach, not only are we introducing new students to a STEM Education, but we are also building leaders and problem solvers who are prepared to take what they have learned and build a career path in a technology-driven economy. Developing The Program We’ve been working on this for a few years. YTC’s clubs in Cicero and Evanston IL added robotics in 2017 and YTC students taught robotics to our partners in Durango, Mexico, teaching the class in Spanish on Zoom in 2018. YTC held two virtual summer camps in 2020, 2021 served 65 students and despite the challenges of distance, culture, and sometimes language over seventy percent of students completed the program. In the process YTC has created a team of experienced student leaders and teachers ready to lead the new expansion. Read More about Marc You are in Good Hands We are not going into this alone. The students you recruit to join us are in good hands. YTC has a vision that ensures every community has access to a digital future, and through grass roots contributions, we have been able to reach more teens, more families, and more non-profits who may otherwise not have access to today’s modern digital tools. However, for this new expansive effort we have engaged Left Bank Consulting as supporting YTC’s strategic growth. This includes managing the 2022 Introduction to Robotics Summer Camp. Marc Siciliano, Founder and CEO of Left Bank Consulting is an international education consultant with three decades of experience supporting teachers, schools and school districts to improve and adopt STEM strategies.

The George Bernard Shaw quote “Some people see things as they are and ask, why? I dream things that never were and ask, why not?” infuses David’s dream, “Imagine a world where young people use the promise of technology to bring opportunity and hope to themselves, their community and the world. It is time to pass the Torch to a new generation!” As its founder and president, David gives vision and passion to Youth Technology Corps. David Finkel YTC President & Founder My Story “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation …” John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address inspired David Finkel, beginning a lifelong desire to make a difference. After an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the U of I, Chicago (1968) he taught in Chicago Public Schools until June 1973, the last three years teaching English at Lane Tech High School. Starting in 1970, Mr. Finkel volunteered in Chicago area civic and government causes, serving on the board of the Independent Voters of Illinois, among others. He was a “grass-roots” political/community organizer who ran several local and statewide races for public office serving Illinois State Government in several positions including Manager of Chicago and north half of IL State Government Real Estate (owned and leased). In the late 70’s, David turned his attention to building personal assets. Focusing on national real estate trends and entrepreneurial strengths, he became president of a company developing a 113-unit condominium in suburban Washington D.C. in 1981. By 1986, Mr. Finkel’s companies and partnerships had acquired more than $40 million in real estate assets in six states and employed 130 people. David became acquainted with the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE); an international education program for gifted teenagers based in Northern Virginia in 1986. He has helped CEE in many ways including chaperoning American students to India (1987) and serving on the Advisory Board for one of its programs. The 1986 Tax Law changes and Savings & Loan crisis led to a failure of his companies. By 1989, David returned to Chicago. Absorbing the lessons of his successes and failures he used his experience in deal-making, business, politics and education to develop a complex system, an integrated, adaptable, local model for change with a global reach. David has spent 30 years developing, testing and improving this system, known as Youth Technology Corps. We are now connected to the rest of the world. With a global pandemic and its political and economic crises, helping struggling communities, their schools and youth is daunting. Yet, with the acceleration of knowledge, especially of complex systems and the digital revolution, many individual problems have working solutions. The key is turning the multiple solutions into a single, affordable, integrated one. The idea starts with self-sustaining technology centers (clubs) where youth learn technology by serving their community including donating refurbished technology and teaching others before starting their careers. The club becomes an information and communication hub for a community, an engine for growth as the youth provide a valuable service to others. And the idea grows as successful clubs bring help to other communities to start their own club. The vision: YTC clubs become a self-supporting, ever-growing interconnected web of formerly struggling communities across the planet. This concept forms the philosophical basis for the Youth Technology Corps (YTC). Starting with teens and technology, YTC begins at the crossroads of change in society. The first prototype computer program started at the Cambodian Association of Illinois in 1995 with a simple thought: Teens can learn about technology by rebuilding discarded computers that they donate to their community. That first program has become the Youth Technology Corps, after-school programs in Chicago communities and just ready to spread. YTC started bringing computers to Durango, Mexico in 2000 expanding to two-way exchanges in 2004. YTC has held annual 1-week over-night computer camps. In the process of learning to work with and on computers, YTC students have donated thousands of computers and taught classes in Chicago, New Orleans, North Carolina, Missouri, Galveston and Durango, Mexico. In 2018, YTC youth began learning and then teaching robotics. And by the summer of 2020, two months after total school shutdowns, YTC students were teaching robotics hands-on, virtually, to other youth. YTC’s basic principles: 1. Regardless of how little you have, when you help someone else, you are not poor; 2. You can learn valuable skills through helping others; 3. Giving youth the opportunity to help with the solution helps both community and youth, reducing cost; and 4. Emerging technologies make rapid, dramatic progress possible. The goal: Use these tools to give youth a future and connect people so their collective creativity can find new solutions to old problems. ​ Contact I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect. David Finkel david.finkel@ytcorps.org