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<span id="docs-internal-guid-9a8b129c-7fff-9ff9-4bbb-ccaba0e17713"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">​</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-9a8b129c-7fff-9ff9-4bbb-ccaba0e17713"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George is a 19 21 year-old Oakland native, Menlo college sophomore, computer programmer, CEO, motivational speaker, and mentor.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">George has participated in various tech events beginning in the East Bay area and now across the world. At the age of 13, George began his love for coding at&nbsp; Qeyno Labs Hackathon, an Oakland California based tech company.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the age of 16 George had found his passion, combining social justice and technology. George then decided to start a tech company at 16 years old, in hopes to help other kids of color gain entry into the world of technology as innovators not just consumers.&nbsp;</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-9a8b129c-7fff-9ff9-4bbb-ccaba0e17713">[https://www.georgehofstettertechnologies.com/ <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Hofstetter Technologies Inc.</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">encourages people to help change the worlds perspective on race through technology.</span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George's most projects/events include </span>[http://www.uptocode.academy/ <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Up to Code Vol. 1</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a computer science curriculum sponsored by Capital One Dev Exchange, Head of Technology and Experience at </span>[https://www.tedx.menlo.edu/blog/2019/7/3/menlo-college-hosts-first-tedx-event-on-september-21-2019 <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TedxMenlo College “This is America”</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, speaking at </span>[https://www.tedxyouthseattle.com/ <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TedxYouth</span>]&nbsp;<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, and travelling traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa to teach computer science and design thinking at 5 LEAP Science and Math schools.</span>  <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic George took a gap year to expand the company. Since then GHTech has grown their team of engineers and designers and has partnered with The Gates Foundation and a non-profit organization in Oakland [Kingmakers of Oakland] to develop a mobile app to empower students of color across seven school districts in the United States.</span>
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==University Innovation Fellows==
== University Innovation Fellows == === Fall 2019 ===
'''George Hofstetter'''
[[Bianca Neme Barros|Bianca Neme Barros]]
=== Spring 2018 ===
[[Ethan Moengchaisong|Ethan Moengchaisong]]
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