Youth Technology Corps Clubs
City Kids Camp, 14253 East Epworth Spring Road, Lewistown, IL 61542
About
Youth Technology Corps Clubs involve teens in refurbishing computers, creating computer labs, and donating refurbished technology. Participants teach computer literacy, robotics, and Arduinos, and they offer instruction to the community through peer-to-peer synchronous mentoring. The program also runs annual 1-week overnight computer camps.
• Ages: 13–18 years old
• Schedule: Annual 1-week overnight computer camps
Youth Technology Corps operates a peer learning system rooted in education and social justice that has evolved since 1998. Its mission is to prepare youth for the technology-driven future through education and civic engagement. The clubs function as self-sustaining technology centers where youth learn technology by serving their community, and they are described as information and communication hubs and engines for growth. Youth Technology Corps Clubs are designed to train youth to help bridge the digital divide, and students become teachers of content to deepen technical capabilities while learning 21st-century skills such as communication, collaboration, and problem-solving.
Through its community involvement, Youth Technology Corps donates refurbished technology locally and globally and offers instruction to the community. The program donates computers and teaches classes in Chicago, New Orleans, North Carolina, Missouri, Galveston, and Durango, Mexico, and brings computers to Durango, Mexico with two-way exchanges. Youth Technology Corps has after-school programs in Chicago communities, and students have taught robotics hands-on, virtually, to other youth two months after total school shutdowns.
Youth Technology Corps leads the YTC GLOBAL ALLIANCE and runs Educate Without Borders, a peer-to-peer, synchronous mentoring effort. The organization has an “amazing relationship with the US Department of State, IREX CEE, and CSP Programs,” and has hosted CEE Fellows from Ghana, Cairo, and Namibia, and a CSP Fellow from Cameroon. The leadership team includes David Finkel, YTC President and Founder.
One student leader shared that serving as Co-President of YTC at ETHS involved working with many different personalities on robotics and computer refurbishment and growing skills in public speaking, collaboration, and organization, as well as improving knowledge of computer refurbishment and Arduinos and the ability to teach others, and stated that the club prepared her for engineering in college and beyond. Program information also quotes George Bernard Shaw: “Some people see things as they are and ask, why? I dream things that never were and ask, why not?” and John F. Kennedy: “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation …”.
Last updated January 11, 2026.
• Ages: 13–18 years old
• Schedule: Annual 1-week overnight computer camps
Youth Technology Corps operates a peer learning system rooted in education and social justice that has evolved since 1998. Its mission is to prepare youth for the technology-driven future through education and civic engagement. The clubs function as self-sustaining technology centers where youth learn technology by serving their community, and they are described as information and communication hubs and engines for growth. Youth Technology Corps Clubs are designed to train youth to help bridge the digital divide, and students become teachers of content to deepen technical capabilities while learning 21st-century skills such as communication, collaboration, and problem-solving.
Through its community involvement, Youth Technology Corps donates refurbished technology locally and globally and offers instruction to the community. The program donates computers and teaches classes in Chicago, New Orleans, North Carolina, Missouri, Galveston, and Durango, Mexico, and brings computers to Durango, Mexico with two-way exchanges. Youth Technology Corps has after-school programs in Chicago communities, and students have taught robotics hands-on, virtually, to other youth two months after total school shutdowns.
Youth Technology Corps leads the YTC GLOBAL ALLIANCE and runs Educate Without Borders, a peer-to-peer, synchronous mentoring effort. The organization has an “amazing relationship with the US Department of State, IREX CEE, and CSP Programs,” and has hosted CEE Fellows from Ghana, Cairo, and Namibia, and a CSP Fellow from Cameroon. The leadership team includes David Finkel, YTC President and Founder.
One student leader shared that serving as Co-President of YTC at ETHS involved working with many different personalities on robotics and computer refurbishment and growing skills in public speaking, collaboration, and organization, as well as improving knowledge of computer refurbishment and Arduinos and the ability to teach others, and stated that the club prepared her for engineering in college and beyond. Program information also quotes George Bernard Shaw: “Some people see things as they are and ask, why? I dream things that never were and ask, why not?” and John F. Kennedy: “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation …”.
Last updated January 11, 2026.
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