Clear Donates Laptops to American YouthWorks

Clearwire

Clearwire Communications (CLEAR) will donate 10 embedded WiMAX laptops from Samsung and a year of 4G wireless service to American YouthWorks to support underserved students who would otherwise not have access to technology. The donation was presented at a launch event at the Arboretum in which Clearwire debuted their service in Austin which will provide 4G wireless access to a 420 square mile radius in the Austin area.

Casa Verde Builder  Trainer Levi Singleton was on hand to accept the donation on behalf of AYW. Levi and other service members look forward to using the computers to support service learning activities, especially in remote areas around Austin where members must travel to learn and earn service hours. Thank you CLEAR!

 

CCorp's First Podcast

A podcast is an audio recording meant to be downloaded from the internet. This podcast took us a long time to make. We used mics, a mixer, a guitar, a laptop, and several hours of revisions and recording to make this happen. It took us about a day and a half to research all the information before we could even write the script. CCorps members were split up into groups of four and every group was assigned to make their own podcast. Our group chose evolution because we thought it would interesting for a large group of people. The members of our group were Gabrielle Morales, Randy Moreno, Evan Hobratsch, and me (Sam Lindsey). We enjoyed making it and we hope you enjoy it too.

EVOLUTION

–Sam Lindsey, CCorps member

 

Help us honor our Fall 2009 Graduates!

Fall 09 AYW Graduation Invitation

Join us Thursday, December 17th at 1:30 pm for our Fall 2009 Commencement Ceremony for our summer and fall graduates, featuring a keynote address by Bobby Bones of 96.7 KISS FM’s The Bobby Bones Show.

AYW Graduation is always a momentous, life-changing event for everyone who attends. RSVP to mmiller@americanyouthworks.org to reserve a seat. Reception to follow in the AYW cafeteria.

 

Service Day with CCorps

On Saturday, December 12th, Computer Corps and some members of Green Energy Corps took out time on the weekend to go down to Blue Santa and helped wrap presents for families to open on Christmas.

We arrived at Blue Santa around 12pm and when we got there we almost had to leave because they didn’t have enough for us to do but they said they would take us on a tour. While they took us on the tour of the warehouse they explained some details about what exactly they do. After that they took us into a big room filled with cardboard boxes and taught us how to fold up the boxes and tape them together. We folded up about 50 boxes and stacked them on top of each other.

When we finished that they took us over to some tables with bags that said boys ages 3-4 told us all to grab a bag and go over to the boxes of toys and pick out, 1book, 1game, and 1stocking stuffer which was like a hot wheels toy or an action figure. Once we filled our bags with toys we grabbed a piece of blue wrapping paper and wrapped up our bags and put them in boxes to be shipped off.

The Blue Santa service day was a lot of fun. After we finished all of our service we all got to sign our names on a big long wall so we could be recognized for our help!

–Alicia Ward, CCorps member

 

Green Energy Corps: local and global change

The Green Energy Corps (GEC) program is a great part of Americorps and the Service Learning Academy. It teaches students how to weatherize homes for families who can’t afford the service or the monthly bill for electricity.

Weatherizing a house has a few benefits, for the resident and for the environment. For example, when a house gets weatherized it gets a complete makeover to keep the temperature in the house at a certain level—warm in the winter and cool in the summer. By doing this, the house reduces the usage of electricity anywhere from thirty to ninety-five percent which means the electricity bill will go down and the family can have more money in their pocket. This can also mean the energy plants won’t have to burn as much coal to produce electricity and prevent higher amounts of pollution or toxic waste from nuclear plants. Due to this we can have a safer environment for our children and our grandchildren. Not to mention, it is also a good way to stop global warming and less animals will die off or go extinct because of record breaking temperatures.

–Cesar Bautista, GEC Member

 

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