Five things a contribution buys.
Each area below has a clear job, a clear recipient, and a clear price. Together they take a young person from a borrowed phone to a finished project that pays. We fund them in order of need and budget, and we say so when the budget is the limit.
Laptops and internet
A refurbished laptop, a charger, a month of internet, and a setup session. Nothing else on this list works without a machine that works.
Young people who are learning on a phone, a shared family computer, or a school device that has to go back at the end of the day.
The laptop itself, the setup, the first month of internet or a hotspot plan, and a short session on keeping the machine healthy.
A short application and a conversation. Devices go out first because every other area depends on them.
Courses and certifications
Course fees and exam vouchers for coding, AI, cloud, data, and cybersecurity paths. We pay the provider directly.
Young people who have picked a direction and are stuck on the fee, not the work.
Tuition for a course or bootcamp, certification exam vouchers, and the books or software a course requires.
Applicants show us what they have already finished on their own. The fee goes straight to the provider, never through the student.
Build with AI, keep your judgment
Free sessions on building real things with AI tools, plus mentors from industry who answer the questions a search engine cannot.
Anyone young and curious. No experience required for the first session. Mentorship is for people who keep showing up.
The room, the materials, food, transit help, and the time of the people who teach and mentor.
Workshops are open. Mentors are matched after a second session so the pairing fits the project and the person.
Paid first work
A stipend while a young person does a real project for a real business: a website, a CRM cleanup, an automation, a data report.
Participants who have finished a course or a workshop track and are ready to ship for someone else.
The stipend for the project month, a mentor who reviews the work, and the write-up that goes on a resume.
Vertex works with field-service businesses every day. Those businesses have real small projects. We match the project to the person and pay the stipend.
Help for teachers and clubs
Equipment, guest sessions, demo-day judges, and a path from the classroom to a finished project.
Teachers, clubs, and after-school programs in Georgia that already have the students and need the extra hands or gear.
Club equipment, guest teaching time, prizes for demo days, and transport for students to visit a workshop.
A teacher or organizer emails us. We start with one session and grow from what works.
In order of need and budget.
This is how every contribution gets spent, and it does not change based on who asks.
Devices first, because nothing works without one. Then course fees for people who have already done the free part. Then workshops, mentors, and paid projects as the budget allows. Schools get help whenever a teacher asks and we have the hands or the gear.
Sponsor laptops, courses, or a whole workshop.
Say which area in the Zelle memo or by email and we will honor it.
Youth in Tech is a program run by Vertex Acquisitions LLC, Georgia. Vertex Acquisitions LLC is a for-profit company, so contributions are not tax deductible.