The Lansing-based non-profit Information Technology Empowerment Center (iTec) is on target to meet its 2008 fundraising goal of $150,000.
iTec
is a non-profit partnership that provides teachers who travel around the Lansing area offering students science,
technology, engineering and math skills.
“iTec
is really a model for a type of education,” says iTec's director, Kirk
Riley. “In many ways, it’s best to think of iTec as a project, and that
project can be carried out at any location.”
iTec recently announced an agreement with Lansing-based Spartan Internet to create an “IT hub” in the old Holmes Street School.
Spartan Internet is refurbishing the building. iTec will use the first
floor as its headquarters. Spartan Internet is one of several IT
companies that’s expressed a desire to expand efforts to keep IT talent
in the area.
“With them (Spartan Internet)
being in the building, there are a lot of companies, I think, that will
relish being in proximity to this facility,” Riley says. “It’s a very
well respected company.”
Riley says the
number of kids who go through the iTec program is contingent on
funding. During the 2008-2009 school year, Riley hopes to serve at
least 500 students.
Source: Kirk Riley, iTec
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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