Photo courtesy of Perry Klein. Here is a photo of students at the weekly Computers-for-Kids class at the James Creek public housing Resident Council building, in a computer lab we set up there. Here they are receiving a lesson in the use of PowerPoint. We received the computers from the American College of Obstetricians and […]
Miracle Matthews (7 years old, Amidon-Bowen student) and her mother and Gianii Marshall (10 years old, Tyler Elementary student) pose with the new laptops they received through SWNA’s Youth Activities Task Force’s Computers for Kids (CFK) program. For more information about the program, check out our article on page three of the July issue of […]
photo caption: CFK Instructor Gerald Brown, YATF Chairperson Thelma Jones, and SWNA President Kael Anderson. In front (L to R) graduates Miracle Matthews and Giannii Marshall (absent from photo is graduate Dynaja Roach). On June 8, three special young ladies became the most recent graduates of the 2014 Computer-for-Kids (CFK) program. Created in 2007, the […]
Before I joined the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly (Assembly) nearly four years ago, I had never heard of Computer for Kids, much less why I might care about it. And even then, I considered it a marginal program, “graduating” just a handful of kids—kids I’d quite likely never meet. “Graduating” to me meant a day-long […]
The Southwest Neighborhood Assembly Youth Activities Task Force (SWNA-YATF) will host its Computer for Kids Graduation on Saturday, December 8, at 2 pm at King Greenleaf Recreation Center, 201 N Street, SW. Qwawi Hakeem Graham, Executive Care IT Technician with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be the guest speaker. Since early adulthood, he […]
