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Have you marked your calendar yet? TechStart’s biggest annual event, the TechStart Expo, is less than two months away! Please join us Saturday, June 9, 2012 at the Brockey Center, […]

TechStart’s classes for 1st-8th graders include robotics, programming, blogging, visual art, video game designing, building planning and other activities that prepare our students for a [...]

In preparing students of color for success in college and life, TAF partners with many foundations, corporations and businesses. Our partners are members of a special program known as the TAF [...]

Remember career day? Juicy Jobs is like that, but better. Professionals from different fields provide TAF Academy students with real-world context in which to apply their academic skills. The [...]

Highlands Elementary held its 5th grade parent night on Thursday, February 2. This year’s evening event had a new focus: 88 students from three classes demonstrated, competed with, or otherwise [...]

Last week, 15 TechStart classes proved that they can answer this, and many, many other questions about what they have learned in the Fall 2011 session of TechStart. The last […]

This coming Winter Session (starting January 9), TechStart After-School students in Seattle and White Center will transition from exploring Light, to Sound. Their main project will be recording [...]

As Lynda explained a couple of weeks ago, our classroom volunteers come from all over. Jean McMillin, our TechStart teacher at Hilltop Elementary, recently told us this story about her […]

I’ve met a lot of amazing people in my role as volunteer coordinator, and each year I’m surprised by the diversity of the folks who give back. So who volunteers […]

One of the pleasures of my job is to gather and read feedback on the TechStart program directly from current and former students. As part of our application process for […]