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TOP-CAT. Yesterday, Today and Beyond! An Overview!. The Digital Divide. The gap between the rich and the poor related to: access to digital technology and the skills to fully explore the capacity of technology!. TOP-CAT THE VISION. TOP-CAT helping

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TOP-CAT

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  1. TOP-CAT Yesterday, Today and Beyond! An Overview!

  2. The Digital Divide The gap between the rich and the poor related to: access to digital technology and the skills to fully explore the capacity of technology!

  3. TOP-CAT THE VISION . TOP-CAT helping to close the digital divide in Durham! The TOP-CAT model in churches, community centers, and other organizations!

  4. TOP-CAT MISSION Provide access to and promote the effective use of digital technology so that under served neighborhoods in Durham, NC may work to resolve the many challenges that adversely affect their quality of life. Provide a technology gateway for the community serve by NCCU. Empower children academically. To empower adults to acquire more knowledge and thereby the power to improve their lives.

  5. The Program’s Goals: Provide technology that helps individuals resolve quality of life challenges. Provide a technology gateway for people in the Greater Durham Community.

  6. NCCU has challenged the digital divide for ten years! 1995 Tutoring-at-a-Distance! (TAD) 1999 Campus Of Learners! (COL) 2000 Power UP! 2001 TOP-CAT! 2006 TOP-CAT - Leadership 2006 TOP-CAT - Entrepreneurs 2006 TOP-CAT - Mentoring

  7. TOP-CAT PROGRAM Community Computer Labs! Technology Education Educational Tutoring Creative Partnerships Project Sustainability!

  8. Services Provided by TOP-CAT Community Computer Laboratories—From five planned to 18 completed by October 2006! 206 networked computers on WWW, available six to 18 hours weekly! 1,800 hours computer access on average! Potential to provide maximum hours of access with creative scheduling and partnerships with other community partners. The Tutoring At a Distance (TAD) model could lead to countywide homework centers!

  9. PARTICIPANT ACTIVITIES Participants learn how to use software, internet browsing and e-mail. Students are tutored in reading, writing, mathematics and test-taking Students gain reading writing, mathematics and test taking skills. Parents become better tutors for their children. Parents and others learn to use technology to improve their lives.

  10. Participant Support To improve educational performance! To increase high school graduation rates! To help high school graduates become better prepared for college! To position young adults for access to rewarding careers!

  11. We target . . . School-aged youth Their parents and . . . Grandparents Senior citizens Others who need to learn this technology

  12. Why this target audience? Senior citizens can use computers to learn more about: • Health and nutrition issues • Career opportunities • Much, much more . . . Parents can use computers to improve the lives of their families

  13. TOP-CAT PROGRAM Some Partners

  14. REFINER’S FIRE

  15. WEST DURHAM

  16. SOME CLIENTS

  17. MENTORING OPPORTUNITY

  18. Community Technology - NCCU

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