Closing the gaps through Tech Education

Poverty Gap, Digital Literacy Gap, Income Gap, Tech Skills Gaps and more”

Jessica Cruz Hernandez received a full ride to Iowa State, doing IT. She will be the first one in her family to go to college. She currently is interning for Red Ink Review. Red Ink Review assists college applicants in creating outstanding admissions essays. Her first website here: https://jessica-h.glitch.me/Home.html

Kevontae started coming to PI515 because his girlfriend, Jessica was our web class assistant. Jessica had joined our class in 9th grade and had become a pro in web development. Jessica’s PI515 job in 10th grade was to assist our Web Development class instructor, John Dillon, a Central college student. At PI515, we not only teach tech, but also encourage our students teach the skills they learn to their peers.

Here is his first website inspired by chicken nuggets: https://quartz-ketchup.glitch.me/home.html

Kevontae’s initial goal was to spend more time with Jessica, but after a few visits we convinced Kevontae to join the class. Kevontae has now graduated high school and will be attending college this fall. He plans to pursue Computer Science.

In 2019–2020 School year,

• Pi 515 hired 15 young students to teach STEM in middle Schools.
• Pi 515 gave 70 laptops to low income students
• Pi 515 held it’s first ever Virtual Summit lead by college students with guests speaker from different industries.

We continue to lead in closing the Digital , Tech Skills and Soft Skills gap for young people in our community. Follow us on our social medium platforms to see the impact we make each day.

Thank you for your continued support.

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