Pennsylvania's YET Project
The purpose of the YET project is to enhance 400 young peoples, marketable skills (especially those related to information sciences and technology), social skills, and prosocial skills. The idea is to use technology as a vehicle through which people are engaged in learning and contributing to their community. The primary audience is high school youth who have contextual factors that place them at risk. The program structure is an after-school club conducted at the high school. The major focus of the meetings will be on technology projects (e.g, robotics, GPS/GIS, webpage development, nana-fabrication, etc.) However, club members will also be involved with community services activity related to technology. By enabling youth to contribute their ideas, their competencies, their energies, their compassion and their caring attitudes, YET is increasing the likelihood that youth will be successful and have a sense of belonging to their community. The underpinning theoretical framework of the YET project is Community Youth Development; therefore, the program’s major elements include skill development and learning, relationship building, and opportunities to contribute.

The goal of YET project is to develop and deliver educational programs within in extension that equip limited resource families and at risk youth to lead positive, productive, contributing lives.

Goals
By participating in YET, youth are anticipated:

1. to increase their knowledge and use of technology;
2. to improve their academic skills related to math and science;
3. to increase their sense of mattering in the community; and
4. to increase their connection to their community.