The Intel Computer Clubhouses around the world enable young people in underserved communities to acquire skills necessary for personal and professional success. The Clubhouses were an ideal way for youth to collaborate on the mural and create a dynamic and unified piece of art that represented a global worldview. The project also provided an opportunity for Intel employees to volunteer at the Computer Clubhouses and helped answer Intel CEO Paul Otellini’s challenge of giving back one million employee volunteer hours in 2008 to celebrate Intel’s 40th anniversary.
Each Clubhouses in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa submitted one entry, which included a visual creation accompanied by a six-word summation of what computers will empower us to do in 40 years. Each creation was developed by a collaborative group process, and the project weaves together each submission into one expansive and exciting digital mural. Intel engaged renowned digital muralist Favianna Rodriguez to oversee the creative process and provide guidance to the Computer Clubhouse youth and Intel volunteers as they worked on their respective submissions.
The result is one of the world’s largest youth-created digital murals, one that showcases the powerful voices of the young people participating in the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network. It is through projects like this, Intel Learn and Intel World Ahead that Intel provides technology literacy and problem solving skills to underserved youth around the world, helping to inspire the next generation of innovators and a vision for the future.