| The Southside Community Center, local residents, community agencies, and several staff, students, and faculty members from Cornell and Ithaca College are in the planning stage of a community–based computer lab for Southside neighborhood youth and young adults. This effort will address the “digital divide” by providing computer access for homework help, to instruction from basic keyboarding to 3-D animation and programming. Youth will be encouraged to participate in every aspect of the planning and implementation | |
| process including lab set-up and maintenance. Other program areas that are being explored are computer training programs for teen parents, and special job placement and/or internships and micro-enterprise training for more skilled participants. In addition, other community organizations including Ithaca’s Sciencenter are creating or already have operational labs. The possibility of building a city-wide consortium in the future with these other entities is being explored. |  |
If you are interested in
participating in any of these efforts or would like more information, please call or email
Professor Graeme Bailey (607) 255 9210
bailey@cs.cornell.edu