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KidsTek continues its service streak at the following schools this school year:
-This is our fifth year working with Aurora COMPASS schools
-We'll be in all seven COMPASS elementary and secondary school program sites in Aurora
-Fifth year at Manual High School
-Fourth year at Aurora Central High
-Third year serving the Montbello neighborhood
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 | KidsTek in ICOSA
Check out this article on technology education and employment in the latest edition of ICOSA magazine here.
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Hardware donation has always been apart of KidsTek mission to serve students. Over the last three years, KidsTek has given away more than 250 computers to deserving students.
We will continue to give away new laptops to high school students who complete a full year of coursework.
If you would like to donate hardware, please contact us at info@kidstek.org
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KidsTek students from Manual High School show off their well-earned Oracle Solaris Associate certifications after a year of hard work and great instruction from Nina Amey.
Letter from Our New Executive Director
After 11 years as a founding board member of KidsTek, helping to build our non-profit into a premier provider of tuition-free technology education to youth in Colorado, I am honored to be named Executive Director, effective July 1, 2011.
We are making a difference in the lives of more than 900 kids from kindergarten to high school in Denver and Aurora over the past school year, and I am looking forward to expanding our reach throughout Colorado. I’m particularly excited about the growth of our workforce readiness programs, which are providing high school juniors and seniors with real world certifications in Cisco and Oracle technologies, enabling them to enter the professional workforce upon graduation. Our latest certification program is at the new innovation school, High Tech Early College in North Denver, which is a great example of a non-profit, public, and private sector collaboration, with Westwood College providing the funding and instructor support. Best of luck to all of our students in the upcoming school year!
Richard Liner
Mr. Liner came to Colorado in 1978 as a Software Developer, and then moved into Business Development as General Manager of Leardata Info-Services, which was acquired by Ajilon in 1990. He served as Vice President of the Western Region of this $300M IT Consulting company until 1997, opening new offices in Phoenix and San Francisco. Liner then joined Inteliant, a division of SOS Staffing, to integrate 16 acquisitions into this new IT Consulting firm. In 1999, he founded LinerGroup as a full service IT Staffing company, which is still in operation today. Mr. Liner is also a founding director of the Colorado Technology Association, which is the organization behind the founding of KidsTek in 2000.
KidsTek in the High Schools
High school students at four Denver and Aurora schools can pick KidsTek as an in-school elective this school year. We will be serving Manual High School, Aurora Central High School, North High School and High Tech Early College.
KidsTek is offering Cisco networking certification classes at Aurora Central High, North High School and High Tech Early College -- a new school in the far northeast Montbello neighborhood. KidsTek has been at Montbello since the spring of 2010 where we launched three semesters of the Cisco class during school hours.
When Manual High School reopened in the 2007-08 school year, KidsTek was right there to offer a business computer class. Since then, we have offered digital yearbook classes, two Sun/Oracle system administrator certification classes
and this year we are adding an A+ class.
KidsTek has doubled our high school offerings over the
previous school year and we're looking forward to continuing
to make Colorado students workforce-ready!
