Results
Summary of Results: 2002-2005
TF environment for learning ensures success:
- High expectations
- Student counseling: teachers, administrators, advisors, parents
- Student leadership: students participate in setting policies and planning events
- Parent involvement
- Service learning
- Diverse student group working and learning together
- Excelent retention and attendance - students play a vital role
Higher Education
- Student retention over the two-year program is 81%
- 98% of graduates have gone to college: 67% to 4-year universities; 54% to UCs and CSUs
Job Placements
- tens of thousands of hours
- over $400,000 in earnings
- 216 student placements in well-paying IT jobs since inception
- 80 students have been placed in project based work; 72 as Teaching Assistants or Network Administrators; 64 have been placed as interns at Intel Corporation, Intel Clubhouses, Autodesk and other local area companies.
- 75% of TechFutures graduates have secured jobs that apply the skills learned in the program.
The above results reflect only TF enrolled students and TF graduates on TF payroll or placed directly by TechFutures.
