DYGI
Disinvested Youth Gaming Initiative
Game-based Development: Unlocking Human Potential
****We are transforming the esports landscape into an opportunity for young minds to develop real-world skills in coding, game design, AI, and technology.
Our Mission Is Clear
DYGI meets young people where they are at, not where traditional education puts them, in spaces they engage with every day. Our goal is to provide youth with a place to explore their passions and hobbies and show them how those skills translate into the workforce. By leveraging gamification of real world skills, we aim to Inspire, Train, Engage and Mentor them in career paths and technology.
Who Do We Help
We help communities, schools, and families level the education and technology gap. DYGI believes your current economic status should not hold you back from attaining a career in technology.
No matter where you live, what you look like or how you feel, DYGI prides its self on providing the best training possible.
How Do We Help
DYGI makes learning what it should be — a fun process. Our youth gain skills every time they play a game or interact with technology. DYGI hones these skills and turns them into a gamification training track.
DYGI provides the technology, trainers, mentors, and programs they need to gain access to career paths they otherwise didn’t know existed.
DYGI’s Core Beliefs
There are many talented young people across our country. From Rural to Inner-City, from Indigenous to First Generation, every race, orientation, and gender, there’s no lack of talent and drive. DYGI’s outlook is simple:
Our Youth Need A Clear Path To Success.
DYGI closes the gaps of educational and financial obstacles through our programs. DYGI leads clear educational and career-oriented training by gamifying these skills. We believe that no matter who you are or where you come from, we will provide you with skills and experience in a field you are interested in that will provide you with a solid career.
For Everyone
DYGI programs are for everyone.
We bring the same level of excellence no matter where we’re engaged and we include everyone that wants to learn.
Hands On
DYGI’s programs are not just speaking, they are doing.
We believe that the best way to train is by putting the material in your hands.
Closing Gaps
DYGI brings the whole package.
Many areas across the nation do not have the technology or educational experience to provide training.
Passion to Profession
We create an on-ramp to technical skills that feels accessible and achievable by focusing on something that many young people already love – gaming.
Education Through Gaming
Our founders were inspired to seek careers in technology and other fields through gaming 25 years ago.
Children and young people are online more than ever before. It has become a significant part of their day. We also know that almost every job requires skills and knowledge of technology and this trend is only growing. DYGI believes in leaning into this trend rather than trying to fight it.
Today, many top technology and corporate companies use “gamification” to train their employees from processes and procedures to full stack development.
DYGI brings this process to our youth by identifying games they enjoy playing and relating the skills those games require into real-world skills.
DYGI packages training tracks into ITEMS. Much like the items in your in-game inventory, DYGI’s ITEMS are a toolbox of real-world technology skills learned through gaming.
ITEMS
Inspire
The first step is to inspire our youth to see they can do it. If someone does not believe it is possible then they will not succeed.
DYGI interacts with them at their level, showing them a path they see is attainable.
Train
By utilizing their time gaming and interacting with the technology they already have the hard part down, deciding a path.
DYGI strengthens those skills and fills in the gaps to make them hirable in their chosen field.
Engage
Once trained, we utilize their skills in real world areas of focus. Through our internships, apprenticeships, and in-house incubator.
Engaging the skills while learning and after cements their newly found skills into their memory.
Mentor
DYGI believes mentorship is a major area lacking in our current educational system. Almost every highly successful person has a mentor.
Mentors give their knowledge and provide access usually not accessible to our youth.
Success
Seeing others succeed that are just like them is highly influential. DYGI leverages the power of success in every training track.
Bringing past success stories into current training sessions furthers this powerful psychological tool.
Contact DYGI:
DYGI wants to help and we are also looking for others that want to help as well. Whether you are looking to donate to the programs financially or with your time and expertise, a student or parent that wants to participate in a DYGI run program, or someone from the community, government, or media that wants more information, please do not hesitate to contact us!