In this episode of the Ed Gap Evolution Podcast we’re speaking with high school students Sydney McPherson and Kevin Kim about America’s tech gap that continues to prevent so many of America’s children from receiving a quality education, thus widening the Education Gap.
Sydney and Kevin are the perfect people to speak on this topic because not only are they students who currently attend public school in the U.S., but Sydney founded a non-profit called Tech Neutrality.
According to Sydney: Since the coronavirus outbreak, she had an excessive amount of time to be reminded of the severe inequities in the education system. She recognized the tremendous privilege that she had merely because she had access to a computer.
So, she created Tech Neutrality: A nonprofit organization that helps students who need computers in order to successfully finish school, get them.
With the Delta variant looming over the 2021- 2022 school year, there is no better time than now to listen to this episode. We’re talking:
- Why all students need access to working computers and why that’s (surprisingly) not an easy task to accomplish even if computers are available
- How they thought COVID-19 was going to affect their lives v. how it actually did
- What it takes to start and operate and non-profit as a student
- The many ways in which not having a computer in this day and age can negatively impact the trajectory of a child's entire lives
- And much more
If you want to learn more about Tech Neutrality and donate visit: https://www.techneutralitynow.org/
Instagram: @techneutralitynow
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