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“We have arrived!”

Last week, our Hardware Friday workshop was a bit weird: Family Night was over, but this was still session one, and on Monday (5/11) started a new four-week session. Despite this weird place, something wonderful happened. Miriam, Kenwood’s librarian, had another engagement to attend and Amy, Kenwood’s volunteer coordinator who had recently begun working with us, […]

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Two Quarters In — What we’ve been up to

The metrics for the second quarter were due in early January and we are happy to report the following numbers: General Access to computers (unduplicated):   * Target proposed in grant: 11325   * Q1 report: 4872   * Q2 report: 4728   * Current total: 9600 Training participants (unduplicated):   * Target proposed in grant: 780   * Q1 report: […]

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Halloween demystifying workshop at UNCC

Well it was Halloween 2014 and the Urbana School District didn’t have school. UNCC stayed opened all day and it was the perfect time to try out a workshop with the kindergarten through fifth grade students. Dressed up like Mary Poppins, Miss Hailley, the Community Ambassador for UNCC, brought in some desktop towers, old ball […]

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