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In this 2022 photo, provided by the youth-led nonprofit Your Tech Q, a high school volunteer is pictured helping older adults at one of the organizations workshops.
In this 2022 photo, provided by the youth-led nonprofit Your Tech Q, a high school volunteer is pictured helping older adults at one of the organizations workshops.Courtesy Your Tech Q

Your Tech Q is a youth-led nonprofit that gives free workshops and presentations on technology and digital literacy in various communities, with a focus on older adults. It’s run by 16-year-old high school junior Atef Siddiqui. He got involved with the workshops about a year after the organization was founded in 2022 by Portland students. At the time, he was in middle school and doing similar work tutoring Afghan refugees.

Siddiqui says he and other youth volunteers find the kind of one-on-one tutoring extremely rewarding. The feedback they get in real time, and afterward in written evaluations from participants, tells him Your Tech Q is providing a service that is in short supply. Your Tech Q now has chapters in San Diego and Houston. And Siddiqui says he’s happy to share the nonprofit’s knowledge base with any group of young people that would like to take on a similar mission. We talk with Siddiqui about Your Tech Q and his hopes for the organization and the mission as it grows.

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