13605 Mills Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20904
TELEPHONE: 301-879-3331
DIRECTOR: Lambert Tchaptchet
eMail: maugust@wildtech.org
The Eastern regional office is located Silver Spring, MD, a northern suburb of Washington DC. The WTA Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington DC from this location. WTA staff and volunteers as well as AmeriCorps and VISTA members operate a number of progarms including:
- Computer Refurbishing. The regional hub for Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington DC for picking up surplus technology from donors and provdiing quality surplus technology shipments to schools and community organizations.
- Computer Refurbishing. Support international exporting of quality surplus technology to needy Atlantic Rim countries to Bridge the Digitial Divide.
- WildTech in Schools. Piloting a WildTech program in Washington DC Public Schools.
- WildTech in Community Based Organizations
- Partnership with the East Baltirmore Technology Resource Center to provide refurbished computers and training progams to needy families in Baltimore (see programs)
- Partnership with the Center for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) homeless shelter, the largest homeless shelter in the Unitied States. WildTech-CCNV is the world's first high technology compnay managed and operated by the homeless (see Locations)
- Teacher Training
- How to acquire and refurbish surplus technology and provide it to low-income families
- How to implement a web development curriculum then have students/volunteers create web sites for local non-profit organizations.
- How to perform technology service-learning in the context of a student or volunteer run company
- WildTech Annual Summit - A three-day conference hosted during the summer in a wilderness retreat center in the Cascade mountains
- Computer Recycling - Coming soon - Schools and community-based organizations can seperate junk computers in recyclable components, then deliver it to the WTA headquarters.
For more detailed information about our programs, see the "Programs" section. To enroll in any of these programs, contact the office above.