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Our children today need a technical edge to be competitive in the growing local, state and global technological markets. Business enterprises are constantly looking to hire highly educated, trained, experienced and diversified employees. These essential skills and qualifications can only be learned in an educational environment that nurtures, motivates and provides both theories and hands on activities.

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Clearly, whatever we're doing now isn't working. My guess is that we have to rethink the whole way we're teaching kids in this area. And, my other guess is that many science and math teachers just aren't particularly inspirational — they're technically competent and know their subjects, but they've never been trained in ways to motivate their students (oddly enough, this isn't part of teachers college curricula). So I would focus on better training for the teachers and the programs first before I'd worry about to the kids themselves.

After School Program scope Our children today need a technical edge to be competitive in the growing local, state and global technological markets. Business enterprises are constantly looking to hire highly educated, trained, experienced and diversified employees. These essential skills and qualifications can only be learned in an educational environment that nurtures, motivates and provides both theories and hands on activities. After school programs are the enablers that will provide the Information Technology disciplines to prepare our children with the skills and hands on experiences required by today’s corporate hiring mangers. After School Program objectives 1. Create a learning environment that will promote an increase in the student’s interest to learn about present and future information technologies. 2. Maintain maximum student attendance by developing an interest in information technologies. 3. Students will explore the many different types of information technologies. 4. Students will develop hands on skills and learn basic information technology theories. 5. Students will be organized into teams to develop entrepreneurial skills. 6. Students will begin to think about future career opportunities in information technologies. After School Program goals 1. Students will master the basic theories of the information technology curriculum. 2. Students will demonstrate hands on skills that are related to the information technology curriculum. 3. Students will develop the skills required to build new teams to work on present and future information technology projects at school and in their homes. 4. Student’s self-esteem, leadership skills, team building and decision making processes will improve to develop citizenship and civic responsibility through engagement in after school technology projects. 5. Students will develop a mentorship network to facilitate the learning process with their peers.

Affordable laptops for as many kids as possible. Seems like there are programs to get basic PCs into the hands of kinds in developing countries. Why not here, Bill? Of course, I'd rather they be MacBooks, but I don't think Mr. Gates will go that far. Or might he?

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