The Bay Area is largely characterized by an alarming trend of increasing gentrification. Here, tech companies attract money that spills over into surrounding residential areas, flooding the market and inflating living costs--especially for housing and food. For communities whose families aren’t involved in engineering or computer science, these price escalations can wreak havoc on living conditions.
This leads to devastating living conditions we would like to remedy. By working with kids from these communities, we hope to demonstrate to them that technology is not just cold numbers and logic but a creative medium in which ideas can be realized and imagination can brought to life.
By bringing together low-income families and tech companies, we then hope to inspire pursuit of technology as a career path, equipping them with the awareness and confidence to turn fear to excitement for technology.
Engineers and designers from such companies facilitate small-scale mentorships with these students. As students ourselves, we understand how inspiration can go a long way, and per our nationally-recognized advisers in social welfare, awareness can go a long way. Our vision is for Bit by Bit's mentorship programs to provide youth with the confidence and understanding needed to build interest in computer science--step by step, and bit by bit.