TL;DR: Geeking out is building its business infrastructure to be sustainable and geek out more kids. We need your help! Look at ACTIVITIES below then check off what you are interested in.  Click on turqoise button that says "Sign up" and then "shifts" on the top right of this page. 
 

Geeking Out Kids of Color has successfully completed its first year as a non-profit organization.  Through staff and volunteers like you we have geeked out over 200 students, helped over 60 families, raised money to start two new programs, one focused on Grrrls of Color (WOC in Tech) and have had a lot of un raising money at our social events, like the one at Lagunitas! The students also learned about computational thinking through dance, told their personal counterstories through coding, and they build their own machine learning model through a Black Panther Curriculum. Its been a fun year!

This year our focus is to make Geeking Out Kids of Color sustainable through applying for more grants, have more intentional FUNraising social events and building tech products that can produce an income to offer more free programming for new students. Below are some activities that include helping build our business infrastructure and projects that work with our families we geek out: 

ACTIVITIES:

• Revamp/design website to include donor friendly data - (2-4 people)
• Search and input grant data to grant calendar (2-4 people) 
• Devs to finish items on building phone app and database  (2-4 people) 
• Clean up, fix program laptops and install unity (2 people) 
• Clean up, inform & possibly fix computers for families that can't afford or don't know how to repair their electronics (2-4 People) 
• Grrrls of Color & VR. The girls in our WOC in Tech program are really interested in trying out VR. We want to setup a time for them to play with VR programs and then do an afternoon career talk. We would need VR headsets and computers. (4-8 people) (4-8 VR sets, we have a couple already) 
•  Creating pre-marketing announcements on social media for the rest of the year (2-4 people)

We will be offering Ethiopian food (Veggie friendly) & Ethiopian coffee & Snacks for our volunteers :) 

Date: Friday April 12th. Two shifts 9am - 2pm and 12- 5pm 

Location: Bethaday Community Learning Center 605 SW 108th St, Seattle, WA 98146

Thank you and I look forward in seeing you at our volunteer event and throughout  the year!