Best Buy Boosts Commitment to Underserved Youth with Expanded Geek Squad Academy Season Launching Today
April 20 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
This year more than 8,500 teens nationwide
will receive tech tools and hands-on training at 40 two-day
camps
Best Buy is deepening its commitment to helping underserved
teens get access to essential tech tools by growing its flagship
Geek Squad Academy (GSA) summer program more than 30 percent to
conduct 40 camps supporting 8,500 teens this year.
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Teens attend Best Buy's opening Geek
Squad Academy camp in South Boston this week, the first of 40 free,
two-day tech camps that will reach 8,500 young people across the
country this summer. (Photo: Business Wire)
“It’s clear that the challenges facing underserved youth are
growing, with resources becoming more stretched even as the vast
majority of future jobs will require tech proficiency,” said Andrea
Wood, director of Community Relations at Best Buy. “The expanded
GSA schedule reflects our commitment to providing teens with the
tech tools they need for a successful future, with support from our
talented employees and community partners.”
Over the past decade, GSA has served more than 26,000 teens
through free two-day camps led by Geek Squad Agents and conducted
in partnership with community organizations. GSA camps feature
unique curricula that aligns teen passions with tech trends such as
3D design, HTML coding and more. New this year is a BB-8 Robot
class to help teens learn to program a robot to complete challenges
and solve puzzles. A pixel art session teaches teens to create
original pixel art and animation, beginning with the design of a
character. The basic principles of coding are inherently part of
this curriculum, providing teens with skills that lay the
foundation for a variety of careers.
Today, starting in South Boston, Mass., GSA begins what will
become the most impactful season ever. From April through Sept., 40
camps will be held in these 39 cities:
-- Beaverton, Ore. --
Jackson, Mo. -- Phoenix -- Bellevue, Wash. -- Jersey City, N.J. --
Pittsburgh -- Bessmer, Ala. -- Kansas City, Kan. -- Reno, Nev. --
Bronx, N.Y. -- Liverpool, N.Y. -- Sacramento, Calif. -- Charlotte,
N.C. -- Los Angeles -- Salt Lake City -- Chicago -- Louisville, Ky.
-- San Antonio -- Cleveland -- Milwaukee -- San Marcos, Calif. --
Denver -- Minneapolis -- South Boston, Mass. -- Desoto, Texas --
New Orleans -- Stockton, Ga. -- Eden Prairie, Minn. -- Newark, Del.
-- St. Paul, Minn. -- Hartford, Conn. -- Oakland, Calif. -- Tulsa,
Okla. -- Henderson, Nev. -- Oceanside, Calif. -- Wake Forest, N.C.
-- Houston -- Orlando, Fla. -- Washington, D.C.
Best Buy focuses on supporting programs that leverage technology
to inspire and engage underserved teens to help them prepare for
college and careers. This commitment to addressing the opportunity
gap among underserved youth is represented in programs such as Geek
Squad Academy and 11 Best Buy Teen Tech Centers now operating in
Bellevue, Wash.; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Jersey City, N.J.; Los
Angeles; Miami; Minneapolis; Oakland, Calif.; San Antonio; and
Washington, D.C.
For Geek Squad Academy 2017 dates, locations, enrollment
information and more, visit https://academy.geeksquad.com.
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