Cyber Café
The Cyber Café is a safe place for low-income middle school students to gain access to computers, complete homework with assistance of tutors, and build leadership skills through mentoring younger youth, college searches, and enrichment activities. The Cyber Café is open four days a week for 2 ½ hours each day.
The Cyber Café has 8 computers. A full-time Youth Coordinator supervises the Cyber Café. Tutors consist of Staff, Volunteers, and Interns. Participants typically do not have access to computers at home.
The only requirement is that the youth reside in Beverly and attends Middle School.
Scheduled Cyber Cafe Activities
Cyber Bullying
Working closely with the District Attorney’s Office we will be talking with the kids about what cyber bullying is, how they can avoid it and how to handle situations that they do encounter in an appropriate way.
Internet Scavenger Hunt
This activity consist of students finding the answers to questions on websites that are educational and informational. The scavenger hunt acts as an enrichment activity to show students how they can do research and find resources for their studying needs.
Tracking Spreadsheet
The students will be taught how to manage their very own excel spreadsheet that will be used to keep track of their grades for tests and assignments. This will not only help them become more familiar with Excel, but will also allow them to track their progress in each of their classes.
PowerPoint Project
The students will be asked to create a PowerPoint presentation about a topic of their choice. The students will be taught how to use PowerPoint and will then use their creativity to make their own presentation about anything they choose whether it be sports, music, or any other personal interest.
Sporcle
Using sporcle.com the students will have the opportunity to play engaging timed computer games. The topics of the games will be educational varying from the US Presidents to World Geography.
Gmail
We will help the students set up a free personal gmail account that will be professional in nature. There will be a tutorial on how to use gmail appropriately as well as how to use some of the organizational features such as the calendar and the documents.
Research Tutorial
A volunteer will come in and complete a workshop with the students on how to do appropriate research on the internet. This will include topics such as valid sources, citing sources, and research note-taking.
Photoshop Cards
During the Holidays, the students will create their very own Photoshop holiday cards. Using personal photos and computer software, each child will create and print a personal holiday card to share with their family and friends.