At Patino high school, we focus on a new style of teaching, going in depth within entrepreneurship and creating innovative ideas. This year we were given a new mentor (Rick Gomez) who gave us an idea of a charity that gives technology to teens in the Central Valley who otherwise couldn’t afford it. After our whole class agreed upon it, Tech4Teens Fresno was born.

We’ve spent months creating content, coding our website and landing pages; all the while learning lifelong skills. In our class we’ve been creating a systematic way of running the charity, digging deep in coding learning new styles of using social media, and networking with individuals to achieve the vision of Tech4Teens.

Currently in Tech4Teens we have received our first sponsorship from Protechnet , a Public Benefit Corporation that provides technology support for local Nonprofit organizations, including hardware acquisition, web design/maintenance, social media support, training, and system setup and repair. Protechnet will help us with receiving, repairing, and restoring the tech donations.

After being sponsored, we launched the first version of our site on October 29th, 2016. The first version of the site updates the public about our benefit event on December, 17th, 2016 at (Bitwise). Check out the (Tech4Teens Fresno) site. To get updates on Tech4Teens Fresno, join our newsletter from the site. http://www.tech4teensfresno.org/newsletter/

This blog was written by Zachary Villasana, the Head Project Manager of Tech4Teens Fresno, as well as student of Phillip J. Patiño School of Entrepreneurship. You can find him on twitter @ZacharyVill_572