Organizations & Clubs
Inc. Magazine writes about Tech camps
Posted on July 8, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Article just published in Inc. Magazine mentions three tech camps, two of them in Philadelphia. Although they don’t mention our summit, they easily could have, as all of the camps mentioned have the same basic goals as the Digital Family Summit- empowering kids and their families to live and work together in the digital world. [...]
WEBSITE: Teen Lit Rocks – YA Fiction
Posted on May 22, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Teen Lit Rocks is a website devoted to what’s commonly known as YA Fiction (for “Young Adult”). Started by two sisters Diana & Sandie, they began the site as a way of working together. Diana is a bilingual educator and elementary-school ESL specialist. Sandie is a prolific writer, blogger, and movie reviewer. (and she is [...]
ORGANIZATION: GlobalGirl Media
Posted on April 24, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
GlobalGirl Media is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that is dedicated to empowering high school age girls from under-served communities around the world through media, leadership and journalistic training to have a voice in the global media universe and their own futures. GlobalGirl Media grew out of a coalition of women broadcasters and journalists [...]
ADVICE: Straight Talk TNT- Teen Advice column by teens for teens
Posted on April 16, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Straight Talk TNT is a syndicated teen advice column which has been appearing in smaller newspapers around the country since 2004. Currently syndicated in 10 California newspapers and the Toledo Blade of Ohio, each week they estimate their column is read by over 100,000 youth, parents, grandparents, business leaders and others who care about youth. [...]
PROJECT: It Gets Better: Anti-bullying, Broadway-style.
Posted on April 13, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
“It Gets Better” is the anti-bullying internet movement that got its start in September 2010 when syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage and his partner made a Youtube video to give hope to LGBT youth, in response to media reports of a number of LGBT teen suicides. The movement has since spawned over 40,000 user created [...]
ORGANIZATION: VolunTEENnation: Teen Volunteer Opportunities
Posted on April 9, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
In 2009, then 17 year old Simone Bernstein and her brother Jake started a St. Louis organization called Volunteen, which allowed youth (from ages ten to seventeen) to find volunteering opportunities that cater to their interests. All the user had to do is type in their age, zip code, and category of volunteering, and they’d [...]
PROJECTS: The Flat Classroom Project, Digiteens
Posted on April 5, 2012 by adam · 2 Comments
PLEASE NOTE: The descriptions of this project come from their websites, listed below. The Flat Classroom Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging tend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the [...]
GROUP: Mighty Writers of Philadelphia
Posted on March 30, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
Mighty Writers is a non-profit organization whose mission is to teach Philadelphia kids (ages 7 to 17) to think and write with clarity, so their self-esteem grows and they can move toward success at school, at work and in life. According to the Mighty Writers website, more than forty percent of Philadelphia students drop out [...]
GROUP: Yoursphere Media Launches New Internet Safety Education Foundation
Posted on March 29, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
article via PRWEB Nonprofit Foundation and Coalition for Internet Safety Education and Reform to serve as resource to community educators who are teaching importance of online privacy, safety, and age-appropriate content. Yoursphere Media, Inc., announced today it has launched the Foundation and Coalition for Internet Safety Education and Reform. This new nonprofit, established to encourage [...]
PROJECT: Raspberry PI Foundation
Posted on March 28, 2012 by adam · Leave a Comment
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It plays high definition video, can do spreadsheets, word-processing, games, and a host of other things. There are two versions, which cost either $25 or $35! It’s been designed by a non-profit in the UK call the Raspberry PI [...]
