A 24/7, 365 Resource to Create the Next Generation of STEAM Warriors
This educational initiative is designed to introduce technologically disadvantaged and under represented youth to programming, (or "coding"), and other digital and computer technologies.
Our program includes field trips and life skills education designed for middle and high school youth to help them develop critical thinking and decision-making, communication skills, self management and self-discovery. We want all youth to see the possibilities they can have by making smart choices in their lives.
Newark Kids Code participants gain a variety of STEAM skills and valuable enrichments through this program including:
- Career exploration
- Goal Setting Frameworks
- Education Guidance
- The ability to explore their own feelings, goals, and decision making processes
Tech Talks from The Tech House with Audible
The Urban League of Essex County's Tech House has teamed up with Audible to host a series of "Tech Talks."
The "talks" will range from getting the most from your Internet browser to the wide applications of Block Chain and how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy.
Previous Tech Talks included:
- Prompt Engineering: The practice of carefully crafting inputs to get the desired outputs from large language models like Claude and ChatGPT.
- Design Thinking: Dive into the world of design thinking and transform your approach to challenges.
- Generative AI: Discover how this cutting-edge technology is transforming industries, from art to healthcare and beyond.
- Technical Program Management (The Science and the Art): Driving innovation in the ever-changing world of technology.
- Tableau Practical Tutorial: a powerful data visualization tool.
- Excel Productivity Tips: A presentation on productivity tips for working in Excel including Excel functions and an intro to pivot tables/charts.
- Chrome Browser: Tips and Tricks with Ian Moraes VP Software Development, Audible
- Content Discovery in Media with Sureshmi Shlapakovsky, Head of Growth and Content Discovery Product Management
We conduct a survey at the end of the "Tech Talks" to find out what future topics you would like us to discuss or classes you would like us to teach at the Tech House.
The Urban League of Essex County's Tech House will be offering FREE weekday and weekend computer literacy classes to Newark residents. These classes will also be offered to Urban League staff and Urban League program participants.
The Tech House was established to be a valuable community resource for Newark residents seeking to acquire valuable technology and computer skills. The digital divide impacting Newark and other technologically underserved communities is not only limited to newer computing devices or faster internet access. It is also about narrowing the technology skill. The more technology skills you acquire, the more competitive you will be in a world that will only become more technical each day.
Please take this brief survey so we can find out what kinds of technology Fairmount Heights residents would be interested in learning more about. In case you don't know, the boundaries of Fairmount Heights are South Orange Avenue to the South, Central Avenue to the North, South 12th Street to the West, and Bergen Street to the East.
In The News
Urban League of Essex County to Celebrate Completion of Tech House with Ribbon Cutting (ULEC.org; September 2021)
NJIT Joins Urban League of Essex County to Teach Kids How to Code (NJIT: December 2017)
District and Charter School Students Come Together to Learn Coding (NJ Tech Weekly; November 2015)
For more information:
Darrin S. Sharif
ULEC Chief Technology Officer
Program Director, Newark Kids Code + Tech House
(973) 624-9535 x204