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💾🌟Springfield, Massachusetts Tech 501(c)(3) providing refurbished devices to community organizations and free digital skills education to residents of Western Massachusetts. Visit https://springfield.community to learn how you can help!
Please join us at Make-It Springfield this upcoming Wednesday February 18th at 4:30 PM for a look at our students’ incredible DIY computer projects! Students will showcase their AMAZING Gaming PC builds! Press welcome! 📸 Visit springfield.community for more info!
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Your unwanted tech can make a MASSIVE difference in the life of a Springfield-area resident! To make a donation or learn more visit springfield.community
All donations are tax-deductible!
Huge thanks once again to Giovanni Basile from the City of Chicopee DPW for connecting the dots and helping us continue our mission with this AMAZING donation equipment! 👀👀WOW!! Greater Springfield is stronger together! 💪🏋️♀️💪🏋️🎉
15.01.2026 20:04 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
These thirteen laptops will be used in support of Strong Young Minds’ youth programming! Learn more at wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/local-organization-donates-laptops-to-empower-springfield-youth/
15.01.2026 19:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MASSIVE THANKS to Executive Director Abbie Gonzalez for her hard work getting these laptops ready for donation to Strong Young Minds’ Dream Center this past Monday! Truly a rockstar performance 🎸🎶
strongyoungmind.com
HUGE THANKS to Giovanni Basile from the Chicopee Department of Public Works for reaching out and supporting us with this AMAZING donation of laptops, desktops, and networking equipment! WE LOVE MUNICIPAL PARTNERSHIPS!!! 🥳💖🥰
15.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
HUGE THANKS to State Representative Bud L. Williams, Ward 6 City Councilor Victor Davila, Teka Jones and Asha Israel of Strong Young Minds LLC, Areta Odiah from WWLP22 News, Kim Rivera, Desi Jackson, Darryl Wilson, and everyone else who made today such a huge success! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8k0...
12.01.2026 23:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A huge thank you to Massachusetts State Representative Bud L. Williams and Committee Director Cynthia Lewis for helping us get the word out about the work we’re doing! Please join us 11AM Monday January 12, 2026 at Strong Young Minds LLC’s Dream Center 980 Bay Street Springfield MA to learn more!
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Huge thanks to Alice Rhodes for designing our newest flyer! alicerhodes.com
Accessibility is central to our mission, so we love using Abbie Gonzalez’s groundbreaking OpenDyslexic font whenever we can! opendyslexic.org
You can download it here: springfield.community/flyers/sprin...
Join us 11AM Monday January 10, 2026 at 980 Bay St. Springfield MA as we announce our support of Strong Young Minds LLC’s Dream Center! Event hosted by Massachusetts State Representative Bud L. Williams.
strongyoungmind.com
Flyer by Alice Rhodes, alicerhodes.com using OpenDyslexic, opendyslexic.org
Huge thanks again to Make-It Springfield and Mass Cultural Council for helping make this wonderful program (among others) happen! Be sure to check both out to learn all about the amazing things they’re doing in your community!
makeitspringfield.org
massculturalcouncil.org
We gamin’ 🥳🤙
06.12.2025 23:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Prepping the systems with the system preparation tool 👩🔧✨
06.12.2025 23:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Time to install Windows 11 🥳
06.12.2025 23:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
WE HAVE BOOT!!!!!!🥳🥳🥳
06.12.2025 23:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
one of the systems appears to need a little bit of debugging… 🤔
06.12.2025 23:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Good cable management is always important 🎓
06.12.2025 22:17 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our latecomer to the class mastered assembling and disassembling his miniPC and moved onto a spare workstation we had left over from the previous class. He’s a natural!
06.12.2025 22:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Cooler Master Masterbox Q300L case has a very unique power supply bracket!
06.12.2025 21:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We had a latecomer show up who wasn’t able to attend the first class so we set him up with a spare mini-PC and a personalized version of yesterday’s lesson! He’ll be joining us for the next class to share everything he’s learned when he builds his own PC!
06.12.2025 21:10 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Here we go! Time to open up our materials and get building! Thanks again to the Mass Cultural Council for providing the funding to make this incredible class happen!
massculturalcouncil.org
We reviewed everything from the importance of negative air pressure inside a desktop computer case to dividing power supply wattage by wall current voltage to figure out how many amps of power a power supply can deliver!
06.12.2025 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Second day of our Build Your Own PC class is underway! Here are Samuel Pascual of PCTV and Abbie Gonzalez of springfield.community leading our students through a quick review of yesterday’s classes.
Learn more about PCTV at pittsfieldtv.org
Hanging with a gaggle of #geeks #digitalequity @spflddot.bsky.social #alliancefordigitalequity
20.11.2024 04:26 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
👾✨MASSIVE THANKS to the Mass Cultural Council for funding our ongoing Build Your Own PC class! We’re turning love of gaming into tech self-sufficiency!🚀🪐
massculturalcouncil.org
springfieldmarotary.org
Day 1 of our free Build Your Own PC class at Make-It Springfield was amazing! Students disassembled and reassembled Dell Pentium 4 systems to learn the general layout and design of a desktop PC. They even got one to boot! Learn more at makeitspringfield.org or www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your...
06.12.2025 03:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Big thanks to Jim Kinney from the Springfield Republican newspaper for his amazing coverage of our class! Check it out on MassLive
www.masslive.com/westernmass/...
or Yahoo:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
or learn more about the event:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-innovat...
Our first class with Make-It Springfield, AI Innovators: Creating Your Own Free & Secure AI Platform was a huge success! Huge thanks to alliancefordigitalequity.org for providing the necessary funding!
springfield.community/news/2025/10...
