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We Create Tech was founded in 2022 by a Title I Career and Technology Education teacher who was once told she wasn't college material, then watched brilliant students leave for college and come back home because the bridge wasn't there. So we built one. Today we close the opportunity divide in STEAM so students don't just learn technology. They create it, own it, and build careers and ventures from it.
We Create Tech exists to close the opportunity divide in STEAM. We build an ecosystem of hands-on programs, industry advisors, and career pathways where students don't just learn technology. They create it, own it, and build careers from it.
Before We Create Tech was a nonprofit, it was one sentence from a high school counselor. Here's what happened next.
When I started We Create Tech, it was more than a program. It was a promise.
A promise to the girl in that counselor's office, and to every student I watched leave for college full of potential. Some thrived and led their programs on day one. Others came home because the bridge wasn't there. They didn't run out of talent. They ran out of road.
Those years taught me something I build on every day: exposure alone is not enough. A field trip can open a door, but students still need a way to walk through it. They need skills, credentials, relationships, options, and a community that keeps showing up long after the workshop ends.

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Happy National STEM Day. 🤎 Last year on this day, AJC Her+Story featured our Founder & CEO, Shana Sanders, and the story behind We Create Tech. Her rule: when someone tells you no, ask someone else. And keep shooting. Today we’re celebrating six people shaping STEM: Dr. Patricia Bath, Dr. Ayanna Howard, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Mark Dean, Dr. Jelani Nelson and @aishabowe . Swipe to meet them. High schoolers, your name is next. CreativX Lab Afterschool starts Tuesday, Nov 10, 4 to 6 PM at the Best Buy Teen Tech Center. Link in bio. #NationalSTEMDay #STEMDay #STEAM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

Tag the friend you'd build an app with. 👇 Better yet, pull up together. CreativX Lab Afterschool starts Tuesday, Nov 10, 4 to 6 PM at the Best Buy Teen Tech Center. #ATLTeens #AtlantaTeens #TeensWhoCode #MetroATL #CreativXLab #WeCreateTech

No school today, so here's your reminder: the lab starts in 7 days. ⏳ CreativX Lab Afterschool · Tuesday, Nov 10 · 4 to 6 PM · Best Buy Teen Tech Center, downtown ATL Link in bio to get on the list. #ATLTeens #AtlantaTeens #TeenTech #DowntownATL #CreativXLab #WeCreateTech

New month, new opportunities. This week’s drop has internships, scholarships with deadlines, events in Atlanta and online, certifications, and global opportunities for our students in Nigeria and Malawi. Get the weekly drop at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #OpportunityDrop #Scholarships #Internships #StudentOpportunities #ATL

Your turn. How do you learn best? A: Watching tutorials B: Building something real C: Studying with friends Drop your letter in the comments. 🤎 #WeCreateTech #HowILearn #STEAM #StudentLife #ATL

Play what students built. Cyber Guardian: The Glitch in the Wires, built by Ezra. Neo-Kyoto is under siege by an exploit hiding in the weather, and you have the fog-cutter. Press play at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #StudentShowcase #GameDev #Cybersecurity #TeensWhoCode #ATL

High schoolers built this. It's on the App Store and Google Play. Your turn. 📱 ATLift was designed and built by Natan, Alexander and Bereket in our labs. It connects Atlanta families to shelter, food, health care and jobs. What will you build? CreativX Lab Afterschool starts Nov 10. Link in bio. #ATLTeens #TeensWhoCode #ATLift #CivicTech #MetroATL #CreativXLab #WeCreateTech

Your Opportunity Drop for the week: internships, scholarships, events, certifications and global programs, with Atlanta opportunities in every issue. Get the weekly drop at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #OpportunityDrop #Scholarships #Internships #StudentOpportunities #ATL

2,000+ students reached across 20 states and 6 countries. 🤎 Thank you to every student, family and partner who made that number real. See our impact at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #Impact #STEAM #KidsWhoCode #ATL

The afterschool program your teen won't need to be dragged to. CreativX Lab Afterschool is a weekly hands-on STEAM lab for high school students: coding, AI, engineering, music tech, digital arts and robotics, with no experience needed. Tuesdays, 4 to 6 PM, starting Nov 10 Best Buy Teen Tech Center, Fulton County Central Library, downtown Atlanta Follows the Atlanta Public Schools calendar Know a teen who'd love this? Share it with them, or send their family to wecreatetech.org/upcomingevents #AtlantaParents #ATLStudents #AfterSchool #STEAMEducation #WeCreateTech

Student spotlight: Noel, age 11, built Neon Blackout, a cyberpunk game, and made a trailer for it too. 🎮 Play it on our Student Showcase at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #StudentShowcase #GameDev #KidsWhoCode #STEAM #ATL

5 things you could build before winter break. Swipe and tell us which one you're on. 👀 1. A game people actually play 2. An app that solves a real problem 3. Your own AI tool 4. A cyber puzzle that stumps your friends 5. A robot that moves on your command The games and apps in these slides were built by students in our labs. You're next. CreativX Lab Afterschool · Tuesdays 4 to 6 PM · Starts Nov 10 · Link in bio #ATLTeens #TeensWhoCode #GameDev #TeenTech #MetroATL #CreativXLab #WeCreateTech

Have you entered a HACKATHON before? First hackathon. Finals. 4th place. 🏆 Huge congrats to our TechRise student Xavier Hernandez, a Kennesaw State University student! About 450 people applied to HackATL 2026 at Emory. 30 teams got in, and only 6 made the finals. Xavier's team was one of them. The theme was "Designing the World After AI." Their question: if AI can do the assignment, how do we protect real understanding? Their answer was Xplain-it, a tool where students explain their code out loud so they can show what they actually learned. Xavier helped build it and opened the pitch as lead speaker. Then the tech broke mid-pitch. Instead of letting that be the story, he asked experienced competitors how they pivot, and he's taking it into the next one. That's the mindset we love to see. 🤎 This is exactly why you should be subscribed to the Opportunity Drop and join TechRise. Xavier found HackATL through us, and look what happened when he said yes. There is literally no experience like hands on. PERIOD. Companies and partners: our network is full of brilliant, ready-to-work students like Xavier. If you can offer an internship, mentorship, or a seat at the table, we want to connect you. DM us or reach out at wecreatetech.org. 🔗 Subscribe to the Opportunity Drop and apply to TechRise at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #TechRise #OpportunityDrop #HackATL #KennesawState @hackatl @kennesawstateuniversity

Black women have always been major contributors to STEAM. This series is here to prove it, and we’re starting with the OGs. Meet Katherine Johnson. Before STEAM was even a word, she was doing NASA’s math by hand. John Glenn refused to fly until SHE checked the computer’s numbers. She was the computer before the computer. Representation in STEAM isn’t new. It’s overdue. Stay tuned. There are so many more names you should know. Follow @wecreatetech so you don’t miss the next one. #wecreatetech #womeninstem

This week’s Opportunity Drop is here: internships and jobs, scholarships with deadlines, events online and in Atlanta, certifications, and opportunities for our students in Nigeria and Malawi. Get the weekly drop at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #OpportunityDrop #Scholarships #Internships #StudentOpportunities #ATL

“Totally. Trust me.” Prove it. AI is a tool, not the final answer. Our students learn to question it, test it and check the work: Ask, Investigate, Compare, Decide. What’s the last thing AI told you that turned out to be wrong? #WeCreateTech #ProveIt #AILiteracy #STEAM #CriticalThinking #ATL

Your Tuesdays just got a glow up. ✨ CreativX Lab Afterschool starts Tuesday, Nov 10. Every Tuesday, 4 to 6 PM, high schoolers pull up to the Best Buy Teen Tech Center in downtown ATL for hands-on STEAM: coding, AI, engineering, music tech, digital arts and robotics. No homework. No experience needed. Just you and your crew. Tap the link in bio to say you're in. 🤎 #ATLTeens #AtlantaTeens #TeensWhoCode #TeenTech #DowntownATL #CreativXLab #WeCreateTech

Homeschool families, this one’s for you. Join us for NextGen Homeschool Lab, where students stop playing games and start building them. Wed, Oct 14 | 11 AM to 1 PM | Atlanta Central Library Spots are limited. Register at the link in bio. #WeCreateTech #NextGenTechCollective #AtlantaHomeschool #STEAM #stem

Do you attend Frederick Douglass High School, Booker T. Washington High School, or Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School? Or know someone who does? 👀 🚨OCTOBER DEADLINE 🚨This is an opportunity worth sharing! The Bridge to Employment program, in partnership with @jnj (Johnson & Johnson )and @georgiatech , is recruiting high school sophomores for a FREE two-year experience focused on mentorship, STEM projects, college visits, leadership, field trips, and real-world skill building. 📅 1 Saturday a month ⏰ 9 AM to 1 PM 🎓 Open to sophomores Two years of experiences, connections, and opportunities that can help shape WHAT’S NEXT. Parents, educators, counselors, students, and community members, SHARE THIS with someone who needs to see it. 🤎 the direct link is in our bio. #WeCreateTech #TechRise #AtlantaSTEM #STEMEducation #HighSchoolOpportunities

This is Code the Culture — where our students merged two worlds that usually stay separate: music and engineering. Every station was equipped with an everyday item — a banana, buttons, pencils, anything that conducts electricity. Or a piece of foil with one of the artists above looking back at them. Touch it, and it’s not just foil anymore — it’s a working circuit built on tech that came out of MIT. @makeymakey From there, our students used a tool we built to actually trigger drum patterns from that circuit. They weren’t just learning how a circuit receives power — they were using it to build their own song, bar by bar. 🎛️🎶 Just for one second — what if one of these students is the next Tyler, the Creator? The next engineer at MIT? The next founder building the next Lovable? That’s exactly why we do this. We help students reimagine what they could be — and put the tools in their hands to get there. 🎤 Code the Culture — presented by @wecreatetech, in partnership with Georgia Tech College of Engineering’s Department of Outreach Initiatives. @feliciathegoat @sza, @doechii, @brentfaiyaz, @mitmedialab, @gatechengineers @lovable.dev #CodeTheCulture #WeCreateTech #STEAM #GeorgiaTech #mit

Your perspective makes everything better. Your Tech Career is waiting. Start with the link in our bio… you can start exploring today 😌 #stemeducation #steam #datascience #wecreatetech

Atlanta teens: pull up for a one-hour creator session where music meets real engineering. Turn everyday objects into instruments through engineering and coding. Just bring your ideas! Register today on our website or the link in our bio. @gatechengineers FOR AGES 13-18 WITH HIGH SCHOOL ID TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CENTRAL LIBRARY 1 MARGARET MITCHELL SQ NW ATLANTA, GA 30303 LIBRARYTEENTECH@FULTONCOUNTYGA.GOV #wecreatetech #atlteens #steameducation #atlanta

Have you signed up for TechRise? This program will help you get one step closer to a career in the gaming industry. 👾🎮 Click the link in our bio Today! #wecreatetech #workforcedevelopment #stem #steam #gaming

Once upon a time, a guidance counselor told our Founder & CEO she “wasn’t college material.” Welp… that didn’t age well. 🤣🤣 Today, she’s the Woman of the Year (WIT Awards), featured in the AJC on National STEM Day, and leading We Create Tech — a movement closing the opportunity divide and opening real pathways into STEAM for underserved youth. 🤎✨ Want to join the mission? • Become a member • Become an advisor • Volunteer • Partner with us • Support a student 🔗 Links in bio. #wecreatetech

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