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Design Your Future is a BaoHouse workshop, funded by the Coalition to Diversity Computing, that introduces youth to careers in computer graphics, ranging from computer science to electronic arts. Our experience has been that graphic design is one of the few topics that is able to draw high school youth to after-school workshops. The workshops run from five to eight weeks, and take place at Boys & Girls Clubs in three counties (Albany, Rensselaer, and Schenectady) in the New York capital district area. We work with up to 15 youth per workshop. Local design and engineering students and design professionals assist in supervising, mentoring, and teaching youth participants. DYF trains youth in technical skills (e.g. computer-based layout design, flash animation; web programming; image-editing, and illustration) and math-based computer graphics (through the Culturally-Situated Design tools website: http://www.csdt.rpi.edu). At the end of the workshop, we provide the youth participants with information packets that outline college options, information on salaries in creative careers, and potential career growth and paths in computer graphics (gaming, freelancing, etc.). Pre-test and post-test surveys examine whether or not the workshop has an impact on their career interests and math skills. Share your passion for design or math with youth. Volunteer to mentor a youth. See Schedule for DYF Summer ’10 at Albany Boy’s & Girl’s Club. |
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