Tech Team

Founded in 2001, the Tech Team provides teenagers the chance to learn valuable life and employment skills while giving back to their community.  Participants are hired to teach experiential, STEM lessons to over four hundred children living in three Denver Housing Authority neighborhoods.

Each year, approximately twenty-two teenagers are hired on the Tech Team. More than after-school employment, the program is a leadership incubator where participants learn lessons that help set them on the path to success in the classroom, on the job and at home.  In addition to their work shifts, the Tech Team meets weekly for professional development sessions. Topics, which are introduced and reinforced throughout participants’ tenure, include goal setting, professionalism, classroom management, emotional intelligence, leadership and learning styles, financial education, public speaking and business etiquette.

This program is a partnership with the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work’s Bridge Project, a free after-school and tutoring program that reduces educational barriers and improves academic and behavioral outcomes for young people living in Denver public housing communities.

To date, 328 participants have graduated from the Tech Team program.