We have not posted in a while but we have been very busy! I am pleased to announce that we now have real, live, lockable lockers at the Technology Cooperative!!! We hope to open our doors to a few members who have access to our facilities any day of the week. More coming soon!
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We need your help.
As a nonprofit organization, we rely on public support to achieve our mission.
We are beginning to pick up a little momentum. But we have not yet hit full stride.
We are engaging young persons with unique, hands-on learning experiences. But we have a lot more children to reach.
We provide free space for nonprofit technology-focused groups to meet, share and grow.
To continue to provide this service, we need your help in the form of a monetary donation. Every donation is tax deductible. Every dollar donated goes directly to the support of the programs at the cooperative. Every donor will be recognized at our facility as a “Friend of Techco” and have your name placed on a display in our facility.
Please lend your support by clicking the donation link below
or send a check payable to the Technology Cooperative at the address below:
Technology Cooperative 130 W. Jackson Ave. Suite 101 Knoxville, TN 37902Thank you!
That familiar hum in the corner is gone. The water bottles are sweaty and warm.
Thank you for a year of service.
- KnoxMakers Monthly Open Hack
- 6 Mar 12
- KnoxMakers (KnoxMakers.org) holds a monthly open meeting to allow anyone interested in the MakerSpace movement to come see what our group is like.
- Open Lab
- 7 Mar 12
- Bring your stuff, your energy and your ideas and let’s see what we can make out of it.
- WordPress Knoxville
- 13 Mar 12
- Meet up with other WordPress users and enthusiasts to discuss a variety of topics. For more information about the program for a particular date, please visit http://www.meetup.com/wordpressknoxville/(and RSVP if you plan to show up).
- Knoxna bi-weekly meeting
- 15 Mar 12
- Knoxna is a Knoxville, TN based club that encourages people young and old to get involved with technology through XNA/C# game development for PC and XBOX 360.
- Open Lab
- 21 Mar 12
- Your Stuff. Your Time. Let’s create!
- Knoxna bi-weekly meeting
- 29 Mar 12
- Knoxna is a Knoxville, TN based club that encourages people young and old to get involved with technology through XNA/C# game development for PC and XBOX 360.
This custom artwork is yours for a $150.00 donation to the technology Cooperative. Come to Techco to take a closer look if that will help aid your decision.
Many thanks to Kelly, Karen and the whole family at the Oakwood Baptist Church in Knoxville Tennessee for your kind donation of printers for the Junkbotz cause.
Thank you for your responses to the article in the local Knoxville paper. I have received many words of encouragement. The question I was asked the most by those wanting to help is “What do you need?” The first thing that pops into my head is funding. Even though that is true, that is not what we need the most. After a lot of thought, I think the first thing we need are volunteers.
IF the technology cooperative is to reach its goal of touching the lives of 500 young persons this year, we need to keep our doors open a lot more than we are able to do today. IF we plan to offer quality interaction to these deserving future technologists, we had better have someone around to answer quesitons.
We need a volunteer corps. We need someone to open the doors and get the place ready to receive our guests. We need someone to watch over the young people as they dismantle printers (safely). We need someone to lead workshops.
We cannot bring in more students until we have a volunteer corps in place.
In a perfect world, we would have 5 to 15 volunteers.
I hope you are considering volunteering to help us at Techco. If you are, let me answer a few questions in advance:
Q: I don’t know much about robotics, mobile apps, or game programming.
A: As a volunteer there are many other things you can do that does not require leading a workshop.
Q: I only have a couple of hours I can spare a month.
A: Perfect! We will be grateful for any time you have.
Q: I like what you are doing, but I don’t like to actually interact with children.
A: That’s okay, maybe you can help us with PR, Marketing, or Fundraising
Q: I have a workshop idea that is more art/crafty than technology related.
A: We are big believers in the Maker Movement, where the creative exercise of making things by hands fuels the same drive and curiosity that is needed for careers in technology. The learning is in the hands-on experience. We have considered workshops on Movie Making, Instrument making, rocketry and making art from recycled materials. Any workshop that motivates youth in an engaging, challenging environment is exactly the kind of workshops we need at the Technology Cooperative.
Secondly, we need corporate sponsors. Brother and sister companies that would allow our future technologists to see what the working world has to offer. I would like to have our front window so filled with corporate logos that it looks like a NASCAR vehicle. Before we received our 501-c-3 certification, we were hesitant to approach corporations. We are now beginning to have those conversations. We are seeking any company that shares our vision.
The Technology Cooperative was featured in an article in the Knoxville News Sentinel on February 23, 2012.
You can read the online version of the article here.
Scans of the actual paper below.
The future of gaming has already started!
