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Inner City Teens Unveil Web and Mobile Apps on Demo Day
Dateline Los Angeles – Teens between the ages of 12 and 17 participated in URBAN TxT’s Demo Day, a fast-pitch session presenting their web and mobile applications that address community issues. Before a filled lecture hall at USC last Saturday afternoon, 28 teens from South Los Angeles, Watts and Compton concluded their participation in URBAN Teens eXploring Technology (URBAN TxT) Summer Coding Academy by...
Urban Text Teens Impressed on Venture Into Culver City
Atom Factory and URBAN Teens eXploring Technology partnered this week to host a discussion on business development and leadership with founders and principals of top-level companies, like Facebook, for URBAN TxT’s 30 teens.
How Teens Contribute to Solving Community Issues
After 15 weeks of coding, web design, leadership and team building, the 28 teens in URBAN Teens eXploring Technology (URBAN TxT) will be ready to present their tech creations that tackle community problems. URBAN TxT, the only technology nonprofit organization in South Los Angeles, will hold its end-of-program event on Saturday, 12 noon to 3, at USC. It is free and open to the public.
South L.A. Teens Learn Business Development from Serial Entrepreneur
URBAN Teens eXploring Technology, a tech nonprofit in South Los Angeles, hosted Krishna Gupta, CEO of Sortfolio, to discuss lessons on business successes and failures as part of the organization’s 15-week summer coding academy. “Failure is not trying,” said Krishna Gupta, current CEO of Sortfolio and Bean Genius, two rising start-ups that mesh creative thinking and technology with profitable ideas.
A Huge Day for South L.A. Teens at Google Fireside Chat
Three members of URBAN Teens eXploring Technology received a private tour of the Google L.A. office, participated in a discussion with executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, and then met Google’s chairman at the organization’s Venice office.
