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Internationally celebrated artist Mark Bradford will visit and work with our students at the GENESIS @ Challengers Innovation Lab as they reimagine their community using art and technology.  After meeting directly with the artist, GENESIS students from 7 to 17 will create interactive art projects inspired by Bradford’s signature style.  GENESIS is planning to exhibit the students’ work to coincide with the artist’s exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in the fall.

BuddyBOTS – empathetic robots designed and engineered by youth for youth – is the latest project of the GENESIS Girls and Tech team from South Central Los Angeles.  The BuddyBOTS goal is to provide comfort and companionship to kids in hospitals.  This creative project was showcased for the first time to a group of corporate women convening at The Girls Lounge at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  The GENESIS Girls and Tech team was supported by adult mentors from the MIT Media Lab and the Art Center College of Design.

GENESIS  built and opened an Innovation Lab at the Challengers Boys and Girls Club offering the latest in state-of-the-art STEAM facilities, technology and programming to over 600 club members.   Classes and special events take place daily and will reach hundreds of students, parents and teachers throughout the community every year.

During the summer months when kids are out of school, GENESIS took its unique Mobile Innovation Lab into underserved areas of South Los Angeles, traveling to the LA’s BEST site at 49th Street Elementary School, the Challengers Boys and Girls Club and the South Bay Boys and Girls Club.  The Mobile Lab allowed kids to create their own SMART pinball machines using the latest in technology.

BuddyBOTS – empathetic robots designed and engineered by youth for youth – is the latest project of the GENESIS Girls and Tech team from South Central Los Angeles.  The BuddyBOTS goal is to provide comfort and companionship to kids in hospitals.

GENESIS  built and opened an Innovation Lab at the Challengers Boys and Girls Club offering the latest in state-of-the-art STEAM facilities.