Conexiones, an ambitious and innovative community-outreach program, is helping the children in under served communities gain a high-quality education.

Conexiones is the product of work undertaken by the Applied Learning Technologies Institute at Arizona State University. Its primary aim is creating technology-infused educational spaces for young learners. With its implementation, students can master the technology in order to become proficient media content users and developers. In turn, its beneficiaries are able to incorporate this knowledge into their personal and academic lives. Conexiones offers these disadvantaged young people the opportunity to use their creativity in ways that make learning relevant and exciting. With state-of-the-art, yet readily accessible, technology at hand, students can master a variety of media skills. All of these are connected to their education and future professional lives. This entails creating works that require analysis, verbal skills and the ability to differentiate fact from opinion; finally, they have the opportunity to use their projects to educate a wider audience about pertinent topics, i.e., peer pressure, educational perseverance, smoking and underrepresented cultural perspectives.