=== ***URBAN CODERS GUILD*** ===
Mission & Vision: Urban Coders Guild exists to provide computer science education, access and opportunities to youth from historically underserved, underrepresented and otherwise under-resourced communities. Its vision is a more inclusive, more diverse tech ecosystem with equitable access to career and entrepreneurship opportunities for Tulsa’s Black, brown, and female youth. This vision foresees tech careers and tech entrepreneurship as a means of transformative change in our communities and viable pathways to the creation of intergenerational wealth.
Our project: The program would have presentations on sustainability issues of e-waste, mining for rare earth minerals, right to repair, and teach our students' entrepreneurship skills. Our mission and vision is to elevate many of our low-income students through not only saving their families’ money on new electronics but paving the way for Black, Latino/a/e, and Indigenous-owned businesses in Tulsa.
Our organization would receive donations of broken phones from the community, and our students would learn computer architecture and hardware through fixing smartphones using iFixit tools, parts, and guides. This program will culminate in a presentation of a student's smartphone fixing business with a mockup of their logo, social media, and business plan.
Some of the iFixit tools that we would like to provide each one of our 20 students is an iOpener, the Essential Electronics Kit, the Magnetic Project Mat, Tessa Tape, as well as replacement screens and batteries for the phone model that we will select based on our community’s donations.
We had the pleasure of speaking with you a few weeks ago along with our Fall intern, Mariia Shevchenko.
We appreciate your interest in supporting this program. And we look forward to partnering with IFIXIT to offer this unique program in the spring.
More about us: ''www.urbancodersguild.org''
