Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee’s Mary Ryan Club recently unveiled its new Best Buy Teen Tech Center in the Sherman Park neighborhood.
The new center was created out of a partnership between Boys & Girls Clubs, Best Buy and the Clubhouse Network, and will provide local teenagers free, hands-on access to state of the art technology. In addition to new computers and furniture, the space has a recording studio, 3-D printer, t-shirt press, green screen and access to creative platforms like Adobe Suite.
- Jake Broge, a Best Buy volunteer, works with a teen in the new tech center.
- Yara Zabihi, a Best Buy volunteer, works with a teen in the new tech center.
- Charlysse Baker discussed how she plans to use the new teen tech center.
- Charlysse Baker, Mayor Tom Barrett and Best Buy and Boys & Girls Clubs representatives cut the ribbon on the new tech center.
- Jennifer Johnson of The Clubhouse Network, Charlysse Baker, Kimberly Walker of Boys & Girls Clubs, and Stacy Fisher of Best Buy.
- Mayor Tom Barrett
- Sean Boston of Johnson Controls and Karen Hung of Silver Rock Consulting.
- Asia Carter and Kofi Abaidoo of Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals.
- Percy Dorsey Jr. and Wanda Montgomery of the Brown Deer village board.
- Mark Sain of the Milwaukee Public Schools board and Shannon Reed of United Way.
- Daniel Artone of WI Group Enterprise Holdings and Daryl Hudson of UPS.
- State Rep. David Bowen and Hyacinth Nembhardt of Wells Fargo.