UCTLI Update: Tech and Leadership Institute

GIIP, in partnership with the Center for Multicultural Cooperation in Fresno, is hosting the UC Technology and Leadership Institute for its 5th year. UCTLI is GIIP’s longest running and most successful project. This summer, the camp will host twenty high school students from Fresno.

The theme for the week long technology camp this summer is the high school drop out crisis and youth activism. The students will learn about applying to college and will work with staff from UCTLI and CMC to collaboratively launch an innovative, interactive online resource for students and educators containing youth created multimedia materials that expose the issue and their ideas for solutions.

This summer, the camp will focus less on creating GIIP videos and more on creating a sustained connection between the students and the GIIPers involved. This will include a new mentorship program that will pair three of the Fresno students with one GIIP mentor who will act as a personal college counselor for the students as they apply to college.