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Tech Pals enrich your life embrace technology
Technology Trainers
- Device Set Up
- Technology Training
- 1:1 in Person and Groups
- Books, Games, Zoom, Facebook
- Virtual Reality
Enrich your life. Embrace technology.
VR Silver
Tech Pals 2023 VR Silver is a program that improves the quality of life of older adults through meaningful, shared experience in virtual reality that stimulates memory and cognitive function, provides fun non-traditional exercise, recreation beyond physical limitations, reduces isolation, and brings joy.
We are delivering Virtual Reality Experiences. Brought to you in part by Arrow Electronics and Reality Garage for their generous donations of VR equipment.
It doesn't matter if you don't know your name anymore and you can't walk... you know you want to go scuba diving! We're providing those otherwise impossible experiences that enrich lives. ~ Leah Baum, President
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics (NYSE:ARW) guides innovation forward for over 175,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers. With 2019 sales of $29 billion, Arrow develops technology solutions that improve business and daily life.
Learn more at FiveYearsOut.com.
Grow with Google Partner
Tech Pals has been a Grow with Google vetted partner since 2022. The Grow with Google Partner Program offers resources to teach digital skills.
Over the Phone
Call in we will teach you with no contact entirely over the phone.
- Video calling
- Digital books and library card apps
- Groceries delivery apps
- Music entertainment and game apps
One on Ones
Need more individualized help? In addition to workshops and presentations, Tech Pals offers one on one in home help. We've fixed and installed printers, downloaded new operating systems, installed the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, given Facebook tutorials, connected people to cloud based photo storage and set up smart lights and smart assistants.
Workshops
Tech Pals offers over numerous workshops teaching older adults how to use technology. Workshops are hosted at The Boulder Age Well Centers, online, at retirement communities as well as in libraries. We're also available to come to your retirement community or facility. Get the most out of a workshop by bringing your device (charged with passwords on hand). Contact us today to set up a schedule of events. Leah@thetechpals.org
Contact Whitney Garcia in Boulder Age Well Center for information on workshops and schedule of events for older adults at The Age Well Center, Boulder, Colardo.
Presentations
Serving the Front Range, general Boulder, Colorado area. Don't have a device? Still want to learn about the technology out there? Want to learn how to use your computer but you only have a desktop? You can attend our presentations to gain valuable information without needing to bring a device.
Videos on YouTube
No matter where you are on what time you are available and ready to learn, a variety of our training videos from our virtual online help is recorded for you to watch at your leisure. You can also find recorded virtual reality experiences for real older adults playing in VR. Please subscribe to our You Tube Page By going to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1r0ifX3JyjlOZzU70E2rCg
About Us
Started in Boulder, CO in 2019, Tech Pals realized a great need for teaching technology. Technology can enrich lives by increasing safety, providing conveniences for comfort and entertainment, maintaining and monitoring health and staying close to family and friends. Tech Pals founder is a millennial. Technology grew as these millennials grew up and they were raised on technology. Tech Pals recognized that others who were not raised with technology struggle to embrace it. Through one on one in home training, group workshops and presentations, virtual drop in helps, virtual game nights, and recorded tech training YouTube videos, Tech Pals is enriching lives, enabling all generations to embrace technology.
In December of 2019 Tech Pals became a non profit 501(c)(3).
In December of 2020, Tech Pals was awarded a contract with the Boulder County Area Association on Aging. We have been contracted to give away Chromebooks, connect hotspots, provide one on one technology training, and conduct presentations. A list of upcoming presentations will be made available. Click the link below to head on over to our YouTube Channel.
Tech Pals currently contracts with the City of Boulder hosting workshops at the Boulder West and East Age Well Center. Workshop have included basic smartphones, search better with google, and staying safe online.
Tech Pals is currently reaching out to marginalize communities whom historically we have been unable to reach due to geographical location, lack of financial resources, and lack of access to a facility set up for technology presentations and workshops. Since 2023, we have been bringing them life enriching technology and virtual reality experiences, known better as VR Silver. Brought to you in part from Arrow Electronics with their generous equipment donation, with special thanks to Reality Garage for additional support and equipment.
Our Mission
Our primary mission is to bring older adults and everyone together with technology to enrich their lives.
Tech Pals believes a basic understanding of technology is a fundamental right, not a privilege. We strive to reduce social isolation and frustration and aim to make older adults and everyone more independent and help them to maintain their dignity and improve the quality of their life throughout the aging process.
“Enrich your life. Embrace technology.”
Workshops
We offer over workshops and presentations in the Boulder Front Range. We can teach anything tech related you can think of. For some course ideas, click on the link below for the catalog. Our most popular workshops are listed below.
- Staying safe online
- Connecting to friends and family
- Health and health monitoring
- Navigating the internet
- Entertainment
- Emails and Google accounts
- Google Docs
- Apple learning
- Technology buying guides
- Basic computers
- Basic smartphones
- Smart technology.
For full course catalog click the button below or check out the preview below.
Gold Level SPONSORS ($3,000 & up)
Arrow Electronics
Huge thanks to our 1st Gold Level Corporate Sponsor, Arrow Electronics.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics (NYSE:ARW) guides innovation forward for over 175,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers. With 2019 sales of $29 billion, Arrow develops technology solutions that improve business and daily life.
Learn more at FiveYearsOut.com.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Are you passionate about empowering older adults to embrace the digital age? Look no further than Tech Pals, a groundbreaking 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to enriching the lives of older adults through technology education and support. By becoming a sponsor, you can join our mission to bridge the digital divide and bring joy, connectivity, and independence to older adults. Your partnership will enable us to provide personalized training, workshops, and ongoing assistance, ensuring that every older adults has the opportunity to thrive in today's digital world. Join us as a Tech Pals sponsor and make a profound impact today!
View a list of current sponsors here