[rtpnet-tact] kids merge high-tech with community service (fwd)

[Judy Hallman]

To TACT list:

This message from a Texas e-mail list I'm on has some good, simple ideas
for ways to use newly acquired computer skills in public service. The link
at the end of the message has a little more info.

Judy
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:23:30 -0000
From: J Cravens <jayne.cravens at unvolunteers.org>
Reply-To: CommunityTech-Texas at yahoogroups.com
To: CommunityTech-Texas at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CommunityTech-Texas] kids merge high-tech with community service

(anything like this in Texas?)

Students at Penn-Hebron elementary school in Pittsburgh, PA are
learning to cross the digital divide -- and are providing a community
service in the process. In a program sponsored by the University of
Pittsburgh and the St. James Episcopal Church Faith Tech Center, 30
female students learned basic computer skills, ranging from typing to
Internet navigation, in an effort to hold their interest in
technology at an age where they typically lose it. At the end of the
six-week course, the girls used their newly acquired skills to
complete a service project for their community. One 11-year-old
student, for example, published a book of jokes and distributed them
to patients at the local hospital. Other students used the Net to
publicize a collection drive for the community food bank.
[SOURCE: PittsburghLive.com, AUTHOR: Tom Jewell, Tribune-Review]
(http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_127082.html)

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