Person at computer

Here is a great opportunity we are offering to our amazing  LGBT+ community partners about our upcoming National LGBT+ Youth Summer Tech Camps.   Maven Youth is a national nonprofit which provides LGBT+ Youth to network, organize and educate for social change through technology.  We foster a rare safe space for LGBT+ Youth (14-24) to explore careers in tech while learning to code with other LGBT+ Youth across the country.

If you ever looked into sending a young person to a summer coding camp, you will note these camps average a cost of $1000 and up to attend.  We do this FREE and our camps are led by LGBT+ Youth. 

Below are the three summer camps youth can choose from:

  • National Summer Camp – LGBT+ Youth 14-19 yrs of age from around the country.  Learn game design, game development and game art creation.
  • National Systems-Impacted Summer Camp –  A safe space for LGBTQ+ youth ages 14-19 who have personally been or had their family impacted by one of the following systems:
    • Foster care / child welfare system
    • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers
    • Incarceration / jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers
  • Job Readiness Summer Tech Camp – LGBT+ young professionals 19-24 yrs of age.  Get your digital resume ready, build your interviewing competencies and learn coding to be ready to land a job in tech.

National LGBT+ Youth Summer Tech Camp

July 5-16th (2-weeks)

Zoom Live Camp

11am -3pm CST (4hrs a day M-F)

14-19yrs of age

  • Youth will learn to build a video game
  • Meet LGBT+ Tech Professionals and Game Developers in the Industry
  • Safe online space for LGBT+ Youth
  • Youth will discuss social media/tech impact on their lives
  • Youth will learn digital art, game design, coding, much more…
  • NO PRIOR CODING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED to attend our camp

National LGBTQ+ Systems-Impacted Youth Summer Tech Camp

July 19-30th (2-weeks)

Zoom Live Camp

11am -3pm CST (4hrs a day M-F)

14-19yrs of age

This free virtual Summer Tech Camp is focused on providing a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth ages 14-19 who have personally been or had their family impacted by one of the following systems:

  • Foster care / child welfare system
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers
  • Incarceration / jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers

Black and Pink National, in partnership with Maven Youth, is offering this FREE 2-week virtual summer tech camp for systems-impacted LGBTQ+ youth across the US.  This camp is led by amazing LGBTQ+ youth who walk participants through all the coding and digital art workshops.

Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support and organizing.

 

National Job Readiness Summer Tech Camp

August 2-20th (3-weeks)

Zoom Live Camp

11am -3pm CST (4hrs a day M-F)

19-24yrs of age

  • Learn to code a video game & mobile app
  • Meet LGBT+ Tech Professionals and Game Developers in the Industry to discuss careers in tech
  • Build your Linkedin Resume with the team the Pride Group @Linkedin
  • Network discussion on leadership, tech readiness for LGBT+ future workforce employee
  • Youth will learn digital art, game design, coding, much more..
  • NO PRIOR CODING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED to attend our camp