Uncrowned Queens Institute establishes 2nd Affiliate in Western New York with CAO

The Uncrowned Queens co-founders are working with Community Action Organization CEO, L. Nathan Hare to develop plans to establish the second Uncrowned Community Builders affiliate with the CAO. Thanks to Mayor Byron D. Brown’s offer of funding for two Kiosks, one at the Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library and a second at a CAO site, we will have two UCB Affiliates in the Buffalo/Western New York area. The Institute will be working with the CAO’s after-school program for high school students to develop a digital literacy, family history and self-exploration program, using technology and the extensive history on the Uncrowned Community Builders websites. The proposed program will make use of the Institute’s innovative technology to promote career pathways in computer programming and engineering. The program will be initiated in Fall 2009.