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31 Jul: Youth in underserved communities receive boost from best buy

 

Teen Tech Center network grows to 21 year-round training locations;

Local communities receive additional $20 million in funding; 

New public awareness campaign gives teens a platform for their stories

 

Minneapolis, July 31, 2018 – Best Buy announced today a campaign that will highlight teens from around the country who participate in the company’s Teen Tech Centers, a network of year-round programs designed to teach technology skills to youth living in underserved communities. This effort is part of a previously announced $20 million grant to the Best Buy Foundation to build out more than 60 of these centers and fund non-profit partners across the U.S.,

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31 Oct: 600+ Best Buy Stores to Open Late for ‘Call of Duty: WWII’ Release

The next chapter in the Call of Duty series launches this week, and you can pick it up at Best Buy as soon as it’s released at midnight ET.

More than 600 U.S. Best Buy locations will be opening simultaneously at 12:01 a.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 3, so you can play Call of Duty: WWII all night long. That means 9:01 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2, for those on West Coast; 10:01 p.m. for gamers on Mountain Time and 11:01 p.m.

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13 Dec: Best Buy to Confront the Oppportunity Gap by Nearly Doubling its Teen Tech Center Network

 

  • Best Buy issues call-for-entries to open nine new Teen Tech Centers in 2017, expanding national network to 20 locations in challenged urban communities
  • Year-round training will reach thousands more underserved teens, helping them leverage technology for a wide variety of future career paths
  • Accelerated outreach effort addresses projections that 77 percent of all jobs will require tech skills in coming decade

 

Minneapolis, Dec. 13, 2016 – More of the nation’s underserved teens will have access to free technology tools and training as Best Buy today announces plans to add nine new Best Buy Teen Tech Centers to its year-round support network in 2017.