Mentorship and STEM: Dallas organization encourages innovation for youth with upcoming robotics event

Maya Angelou said “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” In today’s tech-centric society, where we’re always connected, yet somehow more isolated, how one makes others feel can go a long way. Society’s new ways of connecting (or isolating) people through technology has meant putting away old ways and stepping into the present. Especially when it comes to impacting young people.Combining mentorship with innovation can open doors for young minds and unlock new opportunities for growth and inventive thinking, past what they’ve been exposed to in their own communities. Today, organizations like Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS) help to bridge the gap between effective mentoring and revolutionary technology by providing young people with life-changing guidance and enriching experiences that show them anything is possible, regardless of the cards dealt; potentially evoking a spark and desire that many didn’t know existed.David Williams knows this life-hack all too well. Williams credits BBBS for being the first organization that showed him that his future reaches well beyond his circumstance. David is the assistant vice president of hyper-automation at AT&T, leading one of the largest robotic process...