Amboy Neighborhood Center Opens Intel Computer Clubhouse

After-School Technology Program Enables Youth to Develop Work and Life Skills

NEW YORK, June 3, 2002 - Amboy Neighborhood Center and Intel Corporation today opened an Intel Computer Clubhouse in New York.

The Intel Computer Clubhouse is an after-school program that provides youth ages eight to 18 access to high-tech equipment, professional software and adult mentors to help them develop the self-confidence and enthusiasm for learning they need to create new opportunities. Youth who visit the Computer Clubhouse learn by doing. They create digital artwork, produce their own music CDs, film, write and edit their own short movies, and design Web sites. The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is a project of Boston's Museum of Science in collaboration with the MIT Media Laboratory.

"The youth follow their interests to create amazing projects," said Julien Grant, Amboy Neighborhood Center executive director. "Whether it's manipulating a digital photo, making a movie or composing their own music, the project helps to build self-confidence and enthusiasm. It creates a desire to learn that will aid them in developing job and life skills."

"Intel Computer Clubhouses are 'invention workshops' where youth can express themselves through their own interests to become designers, not just consumers, of computer-based creations," said Roma Arellano, Intel's worldwide community education manager. "Amboy has a great tradition of providing stability in lives of young people whose families are in transition. What impresses me most about this organization is that many adults who participated in activities at the Amboy Neighborhood Center as children, have now returned to volunteer. Intel Computer Clubhouse will enrich this tradition, both in providing a safe space for youth in transition and a venue for which mentors can return and encourage others to fulfill their dreams."

The Amboy Neighborhood joins two existing Intel Computer Clubhouses in Harlem at The Children's Aid Society and Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement. To date, the network includes 45 Intel Computer Clubhouses in 12 states, Washington, D.C. and six countries: China, Costa Rica, India, Ireland, Israel and the Philippines.

An evaluation panel of Intel employees, community representatives and educators selected Amboy Neighborhood Center to host an Intel Computer Clubhouse because of the organization's strategic direction and commitment to technology learning and support of underserved youth.

About The Amboy Neighborhood Center
Amboy Neighborhood Center provides temporary housing for families that become homeless in all five boroughs of New York City. The goal of the agency is to interview, assess and interact with the families in a planned and structured approach to obtain and maintain permanent housing. This 28-year old program provides quality shelter and social services to more than 224 families. Its activities include recreational programs, a youth development program, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and a 4-H Club, as well as Home Management and GED programs. Amboy Neighborhood Center is sponsored by Colony South Brooklyn Houses, a 98-year old non-profit organization that sponsors 17 daycare, after school and workforce training programs in Brooklyn.

About The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network
The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is based on the Computer Clubhouse learning model created by the Museum of Science, Boston, and the MIT Media Laboratory in 1993. The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network, based at the Museum of Science, Boston, serves as the center of innovation and technical expertise. Together with the MIT Media Lab, the Museum provides technical assistance, ongoing support and programmatic guidance for Computer Clubhouses around the world. Intel provides financial, technical, career, and volunteer mentor support to proliferate the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network globally. Intel will invest $32 million over five years to sponsor 100 Intel Computer Clubhouses.

In addition, Adobe Systems Incorporated, which provides the largest software donation, Macromedia, Hewlett-Packard and Autodesk Inc., have committed more than $10 million in software, hardware and services. Other organizations involved include the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the LEGO Company and Haworth Inc.

The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is part of the Intel® Innovation in Education initiative, a global, multi-million dollar effort to help realize the possibilities of science, math and technology in education. The goal is to prepare today's teachers and students for tomorrow's demands. Intel develops and supports programs that help meet the needs of students and communities worldwide by improving science and math education; increasing the effective use of technology in classrooms; and broadening access to technology and technical careers. For more information, visit www.intel.com/education.

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