AMERICORPS: TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION ACCESS FOR MICHIGAN (TEAM)

Update: This project is no longer in progress. The AmeriCorps project was completed in spring 2004.

Program Goals: With the assistance of AmeriCorps members and regional leaders, TEAM (Technology Education and Access for Michigan) will catalyze community volunteers to address the digital divide by:

1. Creating a detailed profile of the digital divide and a technology asset map in the state’s eight geographical regions. These are the City of Detroit, Metro Detroit, Southern, Western, Central, Thumb, Lower and Upper Peninsula.
2. Developing a plan to achieve community-wide awareness of the Internet; and,
3. Stimulating immediate and longer-term actions to reduce and eventually eliminate the divide.

TEAM AmeriCorps has seven locations and each site sponsors events each month to help encourage computer literacy. The TEAM AmeriCorps members are the people responsible for going into their communities to educate people in the world of computers.

TEAM AmeriCorps supplies their site supervisors with the resources they need to recruit members and make sure their locations are well prepared to fight the digital divide.

Michigan TEAM AmeriCorps' Initiatives

AmeriCorps Members & Alumni:
This is useful section of the AmeriCorps Web site that contains a wealth of resources to include, but not limited to: manuals, handbooks & forms; Interest Accrual Form; Loan Forebearance Request Form; and much, much more. . . (Opens in New Window)

TEAM Management, TEAM President, Program Manager and Site Directors.

TEAM AmeriCorps members, These are the people that make it happen it Michigan.

Photo Gallery, miscellaneous photographs of TEAM AmeriCorps members

Members' Accomplishments, This the list of accomplishments by our TEAM AmeriCorp Members

Learn about the TEAM AmeriCorps IT Asset Map Database 

Find out about Michigan's AmeriCorps