206 SW 112th Street,
Seattle, WA 98146

TELEPHONE:  206-242-9505

DIRECTOR: David Youngs

EMAIL: dyoungs@wildtech.org

The headquarters of the Wilderness Technology Alliance is in the White Center area of Seattle, Washington. We occupy over 5500 square feet of wheelchair-accessible office and warehouse space consisting of executive offices, a conference room, a learge class room, desk space for up to ten volunteers engaged in technology service learning and a large warehouse for storing computers.

The WTA now serves the entire Pacific Northwest region from this location. WTA staff and volunteers as well as AmeriCorps and VISTA members operate a number of progarms including:

• Computer Refurbishing. The Washington Statewide-Hub for quality surplus technology shipments to schools and community organizations.
• Computer Refurbishing. Support international exporting of quality surplus technology to needy Pacific Rim countries to Bridge the Digitial Divide.
• WildTech in Schools. Established WildTech programs in dozens of Washington State Schools, then support the teachers and students in their technology service-learning programs.
• WildTech in Community Based Organizations
  • Partnership with the Jubilee Reach Center in Bellevue, WA. Provides a technology access labs, refurbished surplus computers for the needy in the Bellevue area.
  • Partnership with the TechReach program, a statewide initiative to train treachers in computer refurbishing and provide surplus technology.
• 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 progarms, contact the office above.