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TECH CORPS is grateful for the support it has received from the all the individuals, businesses and organizations. Thanks to their generous support TECH CORPS has been able to assist thousands of students and teachers in more than 300 schools, 46 school districts and 23 counties.
“Our investment in TECH CORPS Ohio is really an investment in the bright and talented youth in Franklin County. Working in tandem with TECH CORPS Ohio, our youth will be better prepared to pursue exciting careers in the field of technology.” – Marilyn Brown, Franklin County Commissioner
TECH CORPS Sponsors: American Electric Power, Ohio, American Electric Power Foundation, Battelle, Cardinal Health, The City of Columbus, Chase (Bank One), Chemical Abstracts, City Barbeque, The Cleveland Foundation, The Columbus Foundation, CompManagement, Commission on African American Males, Diversified Systems Inc., EMH&T Inc., Fifth Third Bank, Franklin County Commissioners, Franklin University, The Harry C Moore Foundation, Huntington Bank, Information Control Corporation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, ITSCO, Kroger, Lucent, Manifest Corp., McDonalds, Nationwide, NiSource, OCTA, Parker Hannifin, Quick Solutions, Sarcom, SBC, SemiCycle Foundation, Smoot Family Foundation, Sophisticated Systems, Time Warner Cable, US Dept. of Education, Wal-Mart, Wendy’s International, The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio, Worthington Industries and a number of individual donors.
The following companies/organizations have supported their employees as TECH CORPS volunteers: American Electric Power, American Assoc. of Blacks in Energy, Bank One, Battelle, Black Data Processing Assoc., Cardinal Health, CareerBoard, Chase, Chemical Abstracts, Children’s Hospital, Cintas, The City of Columbus (several departments), Columbia Gas, Crystal Technology, Dayo Security, Fifth Third Bank, Franklin County, Franklin University, Honda of America, Huntington, IBM, Information Control Corp., Manifest Corp., Microsoft, MindLeaders, Nationwide, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, NiSource, NSBE, OCLC, The Ohio IT Alliance, The Ohio State University, Park National Bank, Redemtech, Sarcom, SSTI, State Farm, State of Ohio (several agencies), State Farm Insurance, TechColumbus, Time Warner Cable, Wendy’s International and Worthington Industries.
Hi my name is Travis...The perfect job I would love to have is a software engineer. The number one reason why I would want to have this job is because I love building. I have been interested in constructing stuff all my life and now I'd love to learn how to build software.
Tech Corps was founded in 1995 by Gary Beach , Publisher Emeritus of CIO Magazine. Gary envisioned an organization which would challenge American volunteers to help K-12 schools build a technology infrastructure -- much like the Peace Corps challenges men and women to help developing countries build their infrastructures. Building from a state pilot in Massachusetts, Tech Corps developed and deployed technology programs and tech-savvy volunteers to assist K-12 schools and youth-serving organizations across the country. Since 1995, more than 10,000 Tech Corps volunteers have 