• About TMI

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    Teen Media Initiative

    is a social enterprise that brings tech-savvy youth together with tech-needy adults. Trained and managed by adults, we offer tech and telecommunication services at competitive fees while building leadership, financial, and workplace skills with our youth.

  • About Inside Out Community Arts

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    Inside Out Community Arts, the parent company of Teen Media Initiative, is a nationally recognized nonprofit that brings much-needed after-school arts and intervention programs to at-risk and under served middle and high school-school youth throughout Los Angeles. Our Teen Media Mentors have participated in and benefited from our arts programs and we are proud of all they have accomplished! As they transition into adulthood, TMI offers them an opportunity to develop professional and business skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives!

TMI in DaVinci School’s Monthly Newsletter!

Teen Media Initiative got some press this month in DaVinci Schools’ monthly newsletter! DaVinci Design students Danielle, Domonique and Miyko are three of our Summer Techies in Training, and are featured, along with Bob, in their school’s newsletter! Check out what the article has to say as well as the other DaVinci news by clicking [...]

Will Technology Change the World?

The Chiff.com posted an article, “Teens Predict Technology Will Change the World by the Year 2015.” The article was extremely optimistic. While I do think that technology is definitely becoming a lot more mainstream amongst everyone, even the older generations, I don’t think that it will help us end these major issues anytime soon. The [...]

Coming soon!

Hey guys! Updates are coming soon to your neighborhood Teen Media Initiative! Be sure to check back soon, and hear about all the rad things we’ve been up to! Surf safely! -TMI

The Birth of the Processor

By: Daniel Koster Many times you’ll see an ad in the newspaper or a commercial promoting a new computer with an Intel Core Duo or a Intel Centrino Processor, but what does that even mean? Many of those ads promote laptops that have well over 100 gigabytes of hard drive space, a nice and small [...]

People vs. Technology

By: Leslie Gauna Is being tech savvy really important in the world of today? Well let’s find out. In TMI we believe there is no better time than NOW to start learning about the World Wide Web. Not knowing about email and search engines can prove to be a problem which wasn’t there about a [...]

iPhone 3GS

When the first iPhone was introduced in 2007, with it’s colorful bright, multi-touch display, it was considered a “Revolutionary Phone”. Bringing in features that was not common on mainstream phones. Such as, full HTML web-browsing, the best touch-screen out there by far and the accelerometer (enables the phone’s on-screen menu and keyboard to landscape mode, as [...]

5 Reasons Why The Sidekick 08 is Better Than The iPhone

By: Aisha Abdul-Aleem #1. A Sidekick is Cheaper than an iPhone. You can buy a sidekick with no contract for way cheaper than you can buy a iPhone without one.If you buy a sidekick without a contract it’s $399 & If you buy a iPhone without a contract its $599. #2. The Sidekick has a [...]

Are You Taking Advantage of Today’s Technology?

Are You Taking Advantage of Today’s Technology? Technology has revolutionized the world and the way we move in it. Communication is instantaneous, information is everywhere, phones have become Personal Digital Assistants, and consequently, many of us find ourselves struggling to keep up. When you add in the fact that the game evolves at unimaginable speeds, [...]

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