Mission
About Us
DOT4Kids (Discover Opportunities in Technology for kids) is youth-led organization increasing diversity in STEM through exposing kids of different underrepresented backgrounds to STEM careers and opportunities through original STEAM curriculum.
DOT4Kids started its first workshop in Scratch Programming partnering with Girls Scouts of Western Washington.
Since then, it has conducted multiple workshops in Scratch, MIT App Inventor in and around Olympia partnering with ThurstonTogetherWA, Thurston County EYH, Lewis County EYH, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Lewis County Expand Your Horizons.
DOT4Kids is fiscally sponsored by TogetherWA!
Media Coverage:
ThurstonTalk : Aug 22, 2019 – DOT4Kids has one goal: expose kids of all socioeconomic levels to … DOT4KIDS
TheOlympian : Aug 15, 2019 – Teen’s nonprofit DOT4Kids teaches Thurston County youth how to write code, make apps … Smriti Somasundaran, 14, started DOT4Kids to expose kids underrepresented ….