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TAF has been around for 16 years now, and we’ve seen a lot of the area’s high-achieving youth of color off to college. We know you have stories to tell about your […]

It’s a familiar sight at lunchtime at any school: The recruiting table. Flyers, forms, enticing posters, a couple of chipper people wearing nametags and company t-shirts, shouting: [...]

Teacher: “An electron is a subatomic particle that is negatively charged” Class:  “YES!” “I knew it!” “Sweet!” Me: “…Wow” I’m new to TAF and visited my first TechStart classroom at […]

Last week, our high school students ventured to downtown Seattle for the NACAC College Fair. Our students were among over 1,000 participants visiting the over 300 colleges and universities [...]

We’re thrilled to announce that the Safeco Insurance Foundation has just committed $800,000 to TAF to help build the Bethaday Community Learning Space. This, combined with an earlier gift, [...]

Want to help TAF prepare students for engineering and programming excellence? Need to stretch your legs for an hour or so? Love Legos? Or none of the above? Please come […]

After June 9th’s TechStart Expo (see more Expo pictures here!), the TechStart team faced a daunting task: taking apart all 70 competing and non-competing robots and getting our 107 Lego [...]

Last Saturday, more than 150 TechStart students, nine teachers, and about 200 family members, TAF staff, program partners and supporters gathered at the Brockey Center at South Seattle Community [...]

They trained…they tested…they programmed…now they’re ready  to amaze you with racing robots, astonishing animations, and wonderous websites! This Saturday, June 9, 2012, [...]

Dr. Quintard Taylor, professor at UW, reached out to TAF to request some student help on updating and maintaining his side project, an online database for all things African American, [...]