David E. Glover Emerging Technology Center

We are excited to welcome back creative technologist as our inaugural Design Justice Fellow! We are looking forward to helping cultivate her vision for justice and care-centered technology spaces. You can read more about her process for the fellowship at our link in bio.

Join us in welcoming her back to the David E. Glover Technology Center family! 🎉🎉🎉

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Which questions resonate with you the most?

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Slide 1: “What if we remembered the past and allowed it to guide us in imagining the future?”

Slide 2: “What if we studied and learned from the freedom dreams and actions of our elders and ancestors?”

Slide 3: “What if we all reclaimed our time and space for imagining beyond the current reality?”

Slide 4: “What if we reclaimed our right and responsibility to dream wild and articulated a bold and powerful vision on behalf of our future descendants?”

Slide 5: “What if we spent this month reflecting, resting, and dreaming wild as a way to nurture bold imagination?”

We are excited to be sponsoring two virtual classes led by the amazing !

Are you a musician interested in learning animation? Have you been hearing all the hype about the metaverse, NFTs, and Web3 and wanna learn what they are? Join Monday and Tuesdays this month for these donation-based classes.

These classes are designed for young creatives ages 24- 35. Learn more at taramoves.com/learn

We have some exciting classes in store in 2022!
'Fundamentals of Technologies' is an ongoing workshop series presented by the David E. Glover Center in collaboration with Proper Technovations

All classes take place online and are free to Oakland and East Bay residents. There will be drone kits that students will need to pick up at The Glover Center beforehand.
Classes are designed specifically for ages 12-19.

Topics will be covered:
-Fundamentals of Flights
-Drone Technologies
-Drone Operations and Flying
-Drone Applications

WHEN: January TBD
TIME: TBD
WHERE: David E. Glover Center
FREE for Oakland Residents

Interest link is in the bio!

We had a blast this summer for our Fundamentals of Technologies workshop series presented by x
Students were exposed to Drone Technologies + Applications.

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Summer Programming is back by popular demand 🦾☀️

Register for the upcoming ‘Fundamentals of Technologies' workshop series presented by the glovercenter in collaboration with Proper Technovations.

All classes take place at our technology lab + lot in East Oakland, CA and are free to Oakland and East Bay residents. Classes are designed specifically for ages 12-19

Topics will be covered:
-Fundamentals of Flights
-Drone Technologies
-Drone Operations and Flying
-Drone Applications

To enforce the safety of staff and youth we will strictly following health hygiene guidelines advised by the County of Alameda Health Dept 😷

Snacks, masks, sanitizer, gloves and other PPE supplies will be provided.

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OCCUR offers in person & virtual tutoring sessions every Monday and Wednesday from 2pm-5pm. Sessions are available for K-12 students. In person sessions will have necessary COVID precautions and will be socially distanced. For questions, please contact [email protected] or (510)493-5863

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Celebrating the completion of an awesome prototype our students put together for the 🥳 Shoutout to our team of youth creatives who conceptualized and designed the first prototype of the Scraper Bike Team’s bike lending app 🔥 Best part is that we were able to pay our students for their incredible work this year! Thank you to our outstanding instructor Erica Nwankwo () for working in the virtual classroom with our students. This was a dream collab for our Director Olivia Cueva (.world) and we are so thrilled to that the Scraper Bike Team was our first commissioned client with our program! You can read more about this project in our link in bio 🔝

Let’s give major 👏🏽 to our youth:

• Jeremiah Bailey, designed the navigation experience and hardware
• Solyana Beyene, designed the bike rental experience and overall graphic design
• Solomon Glover, designed the bike safety and user incident reporting protocol
• Hesten Parrish, designed user login, avatar creation, and social engagement map

And that’s a wrap! Summer of Innovation wrapped up last week with a virtual community showcase displaying animations, video games, and coding projects created by youth ages 7-15 ✨Now we are on to planning our program for the Fall working with schools and families to make this virtual learning the best it can be! Stayed tuned and see you soon ❤️

TURN UP FOR THE TEACHERS! This we’re throwing it back to this Spring (right before COVID) where we finished our second round of professional development training for OUSD teachers at Rudsdale and Sojourner Truth Schools. It was an incredible experience training teachers across disciplines how to incorporate and into their lessons! Interested in our PD services, hit us up: [email protected] (email in bio).
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As we head into this new school year we want to continue to support and celebrate the teachers of Oakland in all the ways that we can! We look forward to partnering and assisting our teachers, students, and schools with their technical needs and growing the next leaders and experts in tech and design. Thank you Teachers of Oakland! We love you we see you ❤️! Have you thanked a teacher today? Have you advocated for a teacher today? Lets gooooo 🔥 @ David E. Glover Emerging Technology Center

Join us tomorrow 9AM PST at for a conversation with our Director Olivia Cueva (.world), Evangeline Elder () of , Kai Frazier () of .xr, moderated by Meghna Mahadevan () about our ongoing work in the movement for Black lives. This is a free event held on zoom! Link in our bio to register ⚡️ @ The New School