Meet a 35-year-old teaching tech skills to low-income youth through video games (via CNBCMakeIt)
, a nonprofit teaching tech and video game design skills, is making sure that underserved youth has the tools necessary to get jobs in the field.
Here's how Packwood started his entrepreneurship journey, how he looks at partnerships and his advice for others seeking to do work that they love.In 2011, Packwood started graduate school at California State University, and he says the tech diversity movement in California was just starting to kick off, citing the launches of Black Girls Code, Van Jones' #YesWeCode, and Impact Oakland."Nobody was focused on video games," Packwood says.
"When people volunteer their time, there's value in that. And there are some partnerships we have where they just give us books, laptops that they're not using anymore or video game consoles that they don't need anymore. That's 200-300 dollars [in equipment] for a young person who's trying to get into gaming, but doesn't have the resources."
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