Youth

Mission Moment: AIM’s Youth In Tech Programs Inspire Creativity in Omaha Public Schools

January 23, 2025

AIM’s Youth In Tech program was chosen as a partner for Omaha Public Schools toenrich young minds. Recently AIM associates ignited creativity and innovation atseveral elementary schools while teachers participated in professional developmentopportunities outside the classroom.AIM’s Isaac Piper, Erin Lasiter, Andrew Ochsner and Sara Berkebile helped studentsconnect to literacy and reading. Using the story “Knuffle […]

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Hour of Code at Wilson Middle School on Dec. 17

December 17, 2024

AIM Institute teamed with Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Council Bluffs, Iowa to host an Hour of Code event Tuesday, Dec. 17 at the school for close to 900 students. Computer coding-related activities sparking creativity and problem-solving skills taught at the event will help introduce students to a rewarding tech career. Hour of Code is […]

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Over 100 Students Receive AT&T Laptops Through AIM’s Youth Academy

December 17, 2024

On Friday December 6, over 100 Omaha-area high school students part of AIM’s YouthAcademy Upward Bound and Talent Search programs gathered at the Ashton at Millwork Commons for aday of college and career exploration at the AIM Academies Winter College and CareerFair.At the fair, students received free refurbished Chromebooks generously donated byAT&T and Human I-T. […]

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Women in Tech: Evelyn Espinoza-Macias

May 11, 2021

Growing up in a low-income, Spanish-speaking household in South Omaha, Evelyn Espinoza-Macias said she always struggled with a language barrier.  Her parents, though supportive, could not speak English or provide the same level of help on schoolwork that many of her peers received. The Latinx young woman remembers spending countless extra hours at school working […]

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AIM Code School instructor Vanessa Kasun champions the transformational power of coding

September 4, 2020

Vanessa Kasun is debugging some code. The gregarious AIM Code School instructor is finalizing her presentation for the upcoming Heartland Developers Conference on Sept. 24. The topic? How to build a React app from the ground up.  Kasun will take HDC attendees from installation of the Node.js open-source cross-platform Javascript runtime environment to launching a […]

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