About
Mission
Tech Under Twenty hopes to:
- Get students involved in the Halton tech community
- Develop your foundation of knowledge on how to be successful in tech
- Help you become a student leader
Goals
Our main goals are to engage students ages 15 – 20 to:
- Contribute to grow your tech community in Halton Region
- Develop a better understanding of your interests, goals, and potential career paths in tech
- Build passion projects in the tech space you are proud of
- Meet amazing people aligned with your goals and are focused on changing the world for the better
- Work on and get a better understanding of an area of interest
- Turn the idea into a piece of work you are proud of and could possibly commercialize
- Build a strong professional network
- Get summer employment
We are looking for people that:
- Are people and community focused
- Are eager to learn from all … peers and mentors
- Understand the importance of tech
- Demonstrate the importance of persistence and long term thinking
- Want to grow themselves
We do this by
- Recruiting students to run school chapters that develop tech ecosystems within schools
- Holding a C3 Workshop that kicks of our year by highlighting who we are and what we are planning for the upcoming
- Running the TU20 Cup that gets teams building and pitching a team tech project
- Running the TU20 Workshop & Pitch Night that helps students understand and build the skills they need to get a job in technology
If you are:
- A rockstar coder looking to form a team that’s ready to build the next google
- A budding engineer looking to build the next generation of inventions
- A graphic designer looking to inspire the community with your work
- A marketer looking to learn know the ins and outs of selling
- A student who’s ready to immerse themselves in the tech community
Connect With Us
We are a supportive and helpful tech/business community of youth under the age of 20. We are a division of Silicon Halton
– the grassroots technology community of people who make a living, make meaning, and make things happen in Halton.