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Better and more extensive education opportunities, so that everyone has more ways to realize their potential. Because of this, Apple is committed to providing more learning opportunities for people around the world through cooperation in more than 100 countries and regions.

Dr. Amanda Quintero

Global Hispanic Service Center for Fair Reform (Global HSI Equity Innovation Hub)

In her childhood, Amanda Quintero had no idea of going to college. Her parents are immigrants, who have neither received nor understood higher education. Their expectation for her daughter is to graduate from high school and then find a job. Until the last semester of senior three, a substitute teacher encouraged her to apply for college for the first time. This opportunity changed her whole life trajectory. It was from that moment that she began to believe that she was fully capable and belonged to the university campus.

Now, Dr. Quintero is committed to her career to ensure that the first generation of college students from other families can have the opportunities she has had. As a well-known content expert of Hispanic service institutions (HSIs) and a recognized reformer in the field of student achievement, Dr. Quintero currently serves as a senior adviser to the general director of Inclusive Excellence, and a justice reform commissioner of the Global HSI Equity Innovation Hub of California State University Northridge. The Center for Fair Reform of Global Hispanic Service Organizations was founded in cooperation with Apple, which has a significant impact on the first generation of college students in families across the United States, and also brings many opportunities for various talents. Under the visionary leadership of Dr. Quintero, this project aims to promote the transformation of Hispanic service institutions in the United States to promote students' success, and help Latinos, other ethnic minorities, and many students who have been marginalized to acquire the skills needed to develop in the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and art (STEAM).

"This cooperation with Apple will help us to open our hands, innovate boldly, and integrate the real place of the center with the virtual world," said Dr. Quintero. In addition to providing technology and funds, Apple will also send experts to help design space and plan plans, which is crucial to the success of scholars on campus and in the workplace.

The goal of cooperation is to vigorously provide necessary educational experience and skills to help most of the first generation college students at home become the first generation professionals in the STEAM field. To this end, the Center for Equity Reform of the Global Hispanic Service Agency connects itself with various resources, thought leaders and each other, shares the work results of promoting education equity, and cultivates a more inclusive and diversified future workforce. "Diversified talents are valuable assets that can benefit all of us." Quintero said, "Many students will be able to devote themselves to the community of their origin, and strive to break the intergenerational inequality, thus forming a virtuous feedback cycle."

"My family first entered the university campus on the day of my graduation," Dr. Quintero said. "I hope other students can experience something Different. "

The Center for Fair Reform of Global Hispanic Service Organizations marks a change in thinking mode, that is, from considering how students can achieve success to how organizations can serve students with a goal in mind. This requires the leadership to take responsibility and look at its own system, policies and practices fairly. It also gives students, teachers and teaching staff the power to reform institutions. Dr. Quintero said that this power is the key to an efficient education method centered on fairness. Another urgent task of the program is to attract the family members of the first generation of college students, who are often out of touch with campus life. "My family first entered the university campus on the day I graduated," Dr. Quintero said. "I hope other students' experiences will be different." Making plans for the whole family and extending services to students and their families will ensure that they can easily obtain higher education and complete their degrees.

Dr. Shayan Moshtael and Amanda Quintero, students of California State University Northridge (CSUN)

Eva Corbett

Terence MacSwiney Community college (Terence MacSwiney Community College)

Hollyhill in the suburb of Cork, Ireland, is not only located in Apple's European headquarters, but also the location of Terence MacSwiney Community College of Cork Education and Training Board School, which enrolls students aged 12 to 18. In 2015, the school leadership established a partnership with Apple.

As part of this cooperation, Apple volunteers began to work side by side with school teachers to help set up "everyone can program" and "everyone can create" series of courses, hoping to attract more students to participate in programming and creative activities. Not only that, Apple is also responsible for providing the necessary funds and technology so that students can learn by combining practice.

This partnership is a positive opportunity for the community. Terence MacSwiney's students were exposed to new technologies and ideas, and in the process of working with Apple volunteers, they began to understand some professions that they had never known before. "These people are very interesting. They came to our school, opening up students' minds, allowing them to see endless possibilities and have their own dreams," said Eva Corbett, a middle school teacher at Terence MacSwiney Community College.

"Many children did not realize their creativity before coming into contact with the course of 'everyone can create'," Corbett said. "From the moment they picked up the iPad to write and draw, they entered an unknown world full of innovation."

Corbett, who is responsible for teaching Apple related courses, has witnessed the impact of this partnership and is familiar with the success stories of students. One story comes from the "everyone can program" class, where students developed an app prototype called Food Fund. Corbett said: "This app is designed to help manage a social activity project also created by students, so as to reduce food waste in local schools, redistribute food to Penny Dinners, a local charity, and deepen our community's understanding of food needs."

Corbett also shared a story that a group of girls wrote an original song Live Out Loud in the class of "Everyone can create". This song is full of power and was successfully selected into the government led LGBTI+Youth National Celebration. Now this group of children are using the library band and iMovie clips to create their own music and videos. "If there is any impact on their future from this experience, it is to give them confidence to try new things bravely," Corbett said.

Corbett believes that the cooperation with Apple will eventually bring creative and innovative cultural atmosphere to Terence MacSwiney Community College. "Many children did not realize their creativity before coming into contact with the course of 'everyone can create'," she said. "From the moment they picked up the iPad to write and draw, they entered an unknown world full of innovation."

Students Michaela Fitzgerald (left), Sarah Thompson (middle) and Eva Corbett

For many immigrants and refugees coming to the United States, the process of integrating into the new environment may make them feel overwhelmed. Language barriers often become long-term challenges, especially when they are looking for work opportunities or continuing to study. Idaho's Onramp initiative aims to cultivate local labor force by expanding the state's educational workforce and providing more opportunities for students. This statewide plan is a unique cooperation between Apple, Boise State University, Idaho Digital Learning Alliance and West Idaho College (CWI). For CWI teachers like Sarah Strickley, helping immigrants and refugees improve their English communication skills is to help them get close to their communities and be able to improve the situation. Strickley believes: "In order to achieve fairness, we need to cultivate many leaders as colorful as the world."

CWI's "English Learner (ELL)" and "English as a Second Language" programs provide free English and digital skills courses for people whose native language is not English. With the support of the Apple Community Education Initiative team, the project ingeniously integrates the "everyone can create" series of courses, the "using Swift to develop" introductory course, and the devices that support learning digital skills. Strickley has been teaching in the ELL project for more than 10 years. She has also designed a course for this project, which uses English and coding as tools to teach each other. She teaches more than 150 students from 30 countries and regions. These students use at least 31 languages in total. Their educational level and technical experience are also uneven. Some people have never been exposed to the iPad before, while others hold relevant advanced certificates from their home countries. The common point is that there are communication barriers, which also limits their access to potential employment opportunities. Strickley said, "Our goal is to create a long-term project that everyone can join no matter what education stage they are in." Her teaching method of combining language and programming has consolidated the unique advantages and skills of each student.

Strickley said: "Integrate creativity, community and programming in harness, It will have a wonderful effect. Science and technology will play a particularly prominent role in helping students overcome language or learning barriers. "

Strickley believes that creativity plays an important role in bringing people closer to the community. She also integrates Challenge Based Learning, a method of solving practical problems by using technology. Many students often have their first interaction and contact with the community in this way. Students actively learn how to establish connections and solve problems creatively, while building self-confidence and accumulating valuable social capital. When they first arrived in Idaho, immigrants and refugees had no connections and could not find much support. The work of Strickley and CWI fundamentally enabled them to express themselves and open up their own world in the community now called home.

Strickley said: "Although the language, accent, background and situation are different, each of us has a certain amount of knowledge. Education can help us share knowledge and enhance understanding with each other." Strickley believes that technology can play a balanced role in helping everyone stand on the same starting line. With the equipment in hand and the technical knowledge learned, each community member has the potential to find and even create their own success.

Onramp Program Student Wahid Ahmad Rahmani

Katleho Letshae lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. When a friend told him that Wilberforce Community College had opened an Apple programming course, he immediately seized the opportunity.

Letshae said: "In developing countries, it is difficult to find such Course. "

This course is based on the "Coding and Creation Plan of Traditional Black Colleges" (HBCU C^two ）”Is realized. The program, launched by Tennessee State University in cooperation with Apple, aims to help traditional black colleges (HBCU) bring opportunities for their campuses and surrounding communities to learn programming and creation. HBCU C^two The plan promotes innovation and educational equity, and is committed to solving the challenges faced by the community through app design and Apple's Swift programming language.

Apple helped launch the program and participated in it at different levels, including providing the funds and technology needed to expand the scale of the program, and designing the curriculum system and content. In addition, the Apple team also provides Apple Teacher training courses to help lecturers prepare for teaching.

So far, the program has been extended to 46 traditional black colleges and universities. These colleges and universities are committed to becoming innovation centers in their communities. Their tasks include establishing "innovation teams" responsible for implementing the plan locally, and opening at least two courses that meet the requirements of C^two Strategic courses are also targeted at primary and secondary schools, extracurricular educational institutions and local community organizations, so that all ages can experience learning programming and creation outside school. This joint commitment has played an important role in creating opportunities, promoting the diversified development of scientific, technological and creative talents, and bridging the gap in the field of digitalization between the neglected minority groups.

HBCU C^two At present, the plan has achieved great success. Recently, it has expanded from the United States to three schools in Africa to enroll high school students and students from two-year or four-year colleges. This includes Wilberforce Community College, where 88 students completed the courses in the project in the first year.

Letshae is one of them. During the course, he designed an app called Seasons, which allows people to control the temperature of the electric blanket with the Bluetooth function of the iPhone. During the learning process, he actively looked for problems that he could solve for his community, which led to this idea. Letshae said: "I want to create a more relaxed and safer way for people to use electric blankets, no matter how old they are." Although this app is still in its infancy Nestling But he believed that one day it could bear fruit. At the same time, Letshae is also planning his next action. In addition to his courses, he used to continue to understand programming knowledge through online search out of curiosity. Now he is considering returning to school to formally pursue a degree in computer science or information technology. Because "education is the foundation for improving oneself and achieving goals."

Telayne Keith

Southeast Michigan Boys and Girls Club
(Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan)

Telayne Keith, who was born in Ohio, said: "I have full confidence in my students and believe that they have excellent abilities. No matter whether they are aware of this, I have no doubt." Keith is full of enthusiasm for education and community no matter where he is. In this era of technology driving everything, Detroit is emerging a group of talents to open up new roads. Keith is also one of them. She once served as the instructor of the South East Michigan Boys and Girls Club (BGCSM), teaching the people-oriented design concept and app prototyping standard.

In July 2021, Apple, together with the club and the "Grow Detroit's Young Talent (GDYT)", launched a project to help students develop skills to obtain employment opportunities or participate in higher education. This project is called Code to Career, and it lasts for six weeks. It gathers 20 students aged 18 to 24 to work together to meet community challenges in a sustainable and flexible way.

Apple's Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a way to use technology to solve practical problems. As a counselor, Keith included it in his teaching to guide each group of students to identify community needs and develop creative solutions. Keith said: "If we want to make progress on the existing basis, we must expand our knowledge reserves, and curiosity is particularly important." Her students perceived the creativity hidden in the heart, and also realized that everyone can make a difference. Keith also recalled her growing experience and how her mother used CBL like methods to encourage her to find answers through research and field visits to museums.

Keith said: "Education is not necessarily about immersing yourself in the classroom and books, but about learning from people around you who are different from you from the outside to the idea."

Although her students had no coding experience, they were able to confidently show their app prototypes to the judges and Michigan legislators at the end of the project. Some students have been able to use their problem-solving skills and cooperation experience to play a role in the community, while others continue to participate in the one month basic courses of Apple Developer Academy to learn how to program and design, and even can apply for the annual courses of the Academy.

The Apple Developer Academy has strongly promoted the development of Detroit. This is an entrepreneurship and creativity center, which provides training for students to integrate them into the iOS app economy. Keith's enthusiasm prompted her to join the college as a tutor of user experience and user interface (UX/UI) design, leading and inspiring students to explore new opportunities in the field of technology. With this drive, she went to Kent State University to continue her studies, and received a UX/UI master's degree in August 2022. From BGCSM Club to Apple Developer College, the power of technological change is helping Detroit cultivate more talents.

Keith firmly believes that "we can always find a way to open up our own path in life, and education makes it possible." Now Keith is working with the Apple teacher training specialist in the club to promote positive circular development in various communities in Detroit. Students from Apple Developer College will also return to their alma mater to share their experiences and inspire the younger generation. GDYT plan hopes to adopt the six week Code to Career project of the club and expand it in an organized way so that primary and secondary students can participate in it all year round. Keith firmly believes that "education is the real power", and education can enhance the ability of every member of the community to jointly build a better future for Detroit.

Jaelen Mayberry, Developer College student

Renee St. Germain

Aboriginal Convention

Until recently, content about Aboriginal history began to be incorporated into Canadian school curricula. The Indian Act of 1876 tried to assimilate all the aborigines with large population and different races into the non aboriginal society. Those provisions that continue to be implemented from history to the present have affected several generations. The boarding school system has suppressed 150000 children, making them unable to inherit their own culture. People often turn a blind eye to its impact. The last boarding school in Canada was closed in 1997, further promoting the movement to teach more aboriginal culture and history today.

At the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) in 2015, aboriginal education leaders gathered from all over Canada. AFN displayed a series of cultural relics, maps of boarding schools and other materials to help educators teach Canadian history from the perspective of aborigines. This set of materials was in short supply.

Inspired by this, Apple has promoted the cooperation with AFN to expand educational opportunities for indigenous and non indigenous students. AFN's Language and Teaching Director Renee St. Germain, an aboriginal member of Rama, said: "It is difficult for teachers and students to find reliable information about culture and history." She participated in Apple's current cooperation project, produced available digital resources for aboriginal history, and finally completed a set of practical teaching tools around aboriginal rights, culture and history, which have been downloaded. This set of free "Time is not waiting for me: aboriginal assembly education tool set" (It's Our Time: The AFN Educational Toolkit) 》It contains increasingly rich interactive Apple books, so that both aboriginal and non aboriginal educators can bring new and diverse perspectives to the classroom, and cultivate the spirit of cooperation, mutual understanding and practice.

St. Germain believed that "we should solve major problems and eliminate Institutional Racism and discrimination, education is the fundamental policy. Everyone has a complete education, and the system must be changed so that it can be true Positive support Today's society and culture. "

Apple has helped AFN create 15 Apple books in English and French. Today, thanks to the joint efforts of Apple's outstanding educators, Apple's community education initiative, educational experts, aboriginal education leaders and lobbying organizations, educators can more effectively teach aboriginal history. St. Germain said: "It's never too late to start a dialogue, no matter how old you are." Teachers can finally incorporate knowledge about indigenous people into the curriculum and carry out more discussions around this sensitive history. She said: "Everything AFN does will put fairness first, and this toolkit is developed by aborigines." She also stressed that it is very important for aboriginal students to be treated correctly. "There are aboriginal students in almost every classroom." Institutional changes are surging in Canada, and the toolkit has also continued to help, so that aboriginal students and their descendants can accept more equitable Education.

At present, St. Germain is committed to establishing cooperation with local school boards to make this set of tools benefit more regions. Because of the ethnic diversity of indigenous people, Apple and AFN will continue to work with indigenous education leaders to develop a version of the toolkit for specific regions, so as to better reflect the traditions, languages and Culture.

St. Germain said that there are still many things to do for the majority of indigenous people, from housing, equal rights, to the cultural security of students and teachers, and education is a part of this process. She said, "If there is no fairness in the field of education, where will it be What about it? "

Ya'an, Sichuan Province, is the first place to plant artificial tea recorded in Chinese. There are four winding rivers and mountains, which together create an ideal environment for tea growth. Ya'an's specialty tea is world-famous, and the valuable talents cultivated locally will also shine.

In 2015, Apple began to provide support to the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) to help the foundation organize farmers to establish cooperatives and train them to sell products more effectively. Cooperative leaders help train farmers to develop a full set of skills, so as to promote entrepreneurial growth in the entire Chinese e-commerce ecosystem. In 2020, Apple supported the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to establish the Mengdingshan Cooperative Development Training Institute, providing digital skills training for thousands of rural cooperative leaders every year.

Wang Ying is the president of a cooperative, where she learned how to use technology, iPad and other devices to plant more scientifically. She said that everything used to be written down on paper, and the iPad could make it easier for them to understand the information and skills needed to improve tea production. Many tea farmers have never seen or used tablet computers before entering the training college, but Wang Ying and others will take the lead in mobilizing their enthusiasm for learning, because she firmly believes that technology is a powerful force to promote regional progress.

"The chairmen of each cooperative are like seeds, which take root and sprout locally." When talking about the impact of education, Wang Ying repeated her teacher's opinion. The courses of the training institute cover a wide range of topics, including seasonal production efficiency, supply chain knowledge, marketing, and ultimately how to better sell products. Tea farmers and entrepreneurs can use the digital skills they have learned to cultivate higher quality tea for export and flourish in the local economic environment. Wang Ying also said: "Now is no longer the world of traditional agriculture. We live in the information technology era, and we need to train talents to help us complete the transformation." Before the establishment of the training institute, many young people in Wang Ying's village went to big cities to find employment opportunities. Today, the increasingly mature local industry standards, convenient innovative technologies, and more practical training are attracting them to stay at home. Wang Ying was very pleased to see young people staying here. She also hoped that new talents could come here and jointly build a more prosperous place. At the same time, the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation is also promoting the excellent example of training colleges to rural areas in more provinces Region.

Wang Ying said, "Education affects the Every step. "

As the president of the cooperative, she actively studied and studied how to better manage the cooperative and unite its members. Thanks to her efforts, the income of cooperative members has increased, and their digital skills have constantly improved product quality. With the careful cultivation of every talent, the reputation of Ya'an Tea is getting better and better. Wang Ying said, "Everyone is the same at birth, Muddleheaded Know nothing. Only education can give you the ability to shape yourself. From now on, you can feel free to explore and try boldly to enjoy your own Journey. "

As a saying goes, "The best time to plant trees was twenty years ago, followed by now." In Birmingham, Alabama, Ed Farm is committed to developing digital skills and cultivating relevant talents in the entire field of science and technology for future generations. At the beginning of 2020, Apple launched Ed Farm in cooperation with Birmingham City Schools, Alabama Power Foundation and TechBirmingham, aiming to promote education equity and cultivate the future workforce. In this community driven education ecosystem, people can more easily access opportunities and technologies.

Residents of all ages in Birmingham can participate in various projects of Ed Farm in many ways. Teacher Fellows is a project supported by experts from Apple's teacher training specialists, committed to developing educators who are passionate about learning and innovation, and helping them incorporate Apple's "Everyone Can Program" series of courses into their teaching plans; The Student Fellows program cultivates the skills of junior and senior high school students through "CBL", which focuses on solving practical problems through scientific and technological means; There is also the Pathways project. In this free course, you can learn the Apple Swift programming language, which also enables more people to obtain college degrees. Ed Farm relies on the community to serve the community and is closely connected with Birmingham in a unique way, only to reshape the education pattern through technology.

"It's never too old to learn. You can't grow and progress without learning." Nikia Hackworth, a participant of Pathways project say.

Hackworth believes that Pathways changed their family's life. She used to work in finance for a long time, and her interest was aroused by the information about Ed Farm on social media. When talking about her experience in Pathways and how to constantly absorb programming and technology related knowledge, she said: "It's never wrong to learn something new." At the same time, she began to use these digital skills to transform into a new career as a business analyst. Hackworth's responsibility is not to write code, but to build a bridge between the technical team and the business team in a language involving coding. Ed Farm not only teaches coding knowledge, but also makes people realize that there are many development paths in the world of science and technology, from product owners, project managers to business analysts like Hackworth. She firmly believes that "education can help you grow. The more knowledge you have, the more significant progress you will make."

Ed Farm has had a positive impact on primary and secondary schools, higher education and the workplace, helping Birmingham develop into the "Silicon Valley" in the southern United States. This partnership has enabled Birmingham residents to explore opportunities they have not yet realized, and has opened new avenues for growth. Hackworth believes that "to develop, we must get out of the trap Fence , step into another world, go there and show it to your heart's content, and grow into towering trees, that's what we should look like. "

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