TechYouth exemplifies CompuCorps' involvement in the community by providing youth groups with opportunities to interact with technology. YouthZoom is a project run under TechYouth: each summer TechYouth partners with the Ottawa Police and provides a group of youth with video equipment and video editing time in a professional studio. This month long program allows young individuals to get creative and produce a film on a topic of their liking.

The movies are judged at the end of the program and the winners are awarded with prizes.

This program relies on strong partnerships and volunteers. This is a very rewarding way to get involved in the community.

In 2006, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) was approached by CompuCorps to co-sponsor a video project with multi-cultural youth. Youth Zoom - capturing multicultural experiences on video - was created to engage multicultural youth in story telling and teach them about digital video technology. Click here to see the project results.

Ottawa Police Service has agreed to partner with CompuCorps on a project to develop and provide an Aboriginal youth program in the Ottawa area with the opportunity to learn how to make a video story with their community, including First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

The project is designed to:

• engage and empower Aboriginal youth,
• encourage greater understanding of Aboriginal issues and youth in the police service and community
• foster goodwill and corporate recognition for corporate sponsors to the project.