Overview by the Numbers:

Currently Serving: 253 students

Served to Date: 1,583 students | 11,081 families

*As of 2022

<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2024):

• $55,000+ in-kind support
• $30,000 in grant support
• 253 direct beneficiaries </aside>

Background:

<aside> 📌 Founded in 2008, MAIA Impact (MAIA)’s mission is to unlock and maximize the potential of girls to lead transformational change. Our vision is a new generation of female leaders who create a more equitable society.

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🤝Partnership Objective:

Team4Tech supports MAIA in defining curriculum standards, supporting content and curriculum coaching for tech educators, integrating sustainable Internet access, creating spaces with tech tools for girls to keep progressing to move forward, supporting integration of tech into pedagogy, and advancing the 21st-century tech skills needed for the workplace.

Grant Budget Analysis:

<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> The grant supported MAIA’s internet capabilities, which is a long-term goal of theirs. The grant also supported improving curriculum and content coaching through the Microsoft Platform Bootcamp and the Digital Security Camp, as well as through new designs for the school technology curriculum. MAIA also invested in their tech capacity which improves their Communications Room and aligns with their goal of creating spaces with technological tools girls need.

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Pro Bono Capacity-Building Projects:

• December 2021: Design for Impact Project with New Relic (drop down for more)
• Fall 2022: Virtual Strategic Project with Barracuda (drop down for more)
• February 2023: Design for Impact Project with Nintendo (drop down for more)

Impact: Each project done with MAIA builds on strengthening Girl Pioneers’ skills for future success. Both the New Relic Design for Impact (2021) and the Nintendo D41 (2023) built up educational resources to support workplace goals and establish a strong foundation for a diverse number of career paths. Also, the New Relic D41 and Barracuda Project (2022) provided Girl Pioneers with skills to protect themselves online, something that is crucial in the technology-dominated workforce and world.

Team4Tech Impact:

In the beginning of this partnership, MAIA was in the process of a complete redesign of their tech curriculum, looking to find ways to address issues of digital security after incidents with Girl Pioneers in risky situations online, and had a number of goals of increasing tech into all academic areas.