Yesterday was a busy day. Google announced at 3am EST their "GoogleGiveBack" program, listing grants they've made to support education, technology innovation, and the fight against modern-day slavery. Shona Brown, SVP of Google.org, posted on the company's official blog that "science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) open up great opportunities for young people, so we've decided to fund 16 great programs in this area...providing enhanced STEM education for more than 3 million students." We are included and are deeply grateful to receive a $250,000 Google grant to support the growth of the Globaloria learning network in San Jose/Silicon Valley. We've been working nationally and globally in the past five years, but the aim in Silicon Valley is to grow local talent by teaching kids game design and computer programming to cultivate a broad array of STEM knowledge and digital skills, improve community-wide civic engagement and regional innovation, and help ease Silicon Valley's talent crunch.
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