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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91b442c8-7fff-4c1f-3d54-8d99500737f9"><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;">[[File:TedxMenloCollege.png|thumb|TedxMenloCollege.png]]</span></span>[[File:VenturesGolfTournanment.jpg.jpg|left|thumb|VenturesGolfTournament.jpg]]<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-91b442c89a8b129c-7fff-4c1f9ff9-3d544bbb-8d99500737f9ccaba0e17713"><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; a Qeyno Labs Hackathon, an Oakland California based tech company.</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-91b442c8-7fff-4c1f-3d54-8d99500737f9"><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;">​</span></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 style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Hofstetter Technologies Inc. encourages people to help change the worlds perspective on race through technology</span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">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> <divspan 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.<br/span>  <div>=Related Links= [[Menlo College|Menlo College]] [[Menlo College Student Priorities|Menlo College Student Priorities]]  ==University Innovation Fellows== ===Fall 2019=== '''George Hofstetter''' [[Christopher_Overkämping|Christopher Overkämping]] [[Rufus K. Pappy|Rufus K. Pappy]] [[Bianca Neme Barros|Bianca Neme Barros]] ===Spring 2018=== [[Ethan Moengchaisong|Ethan Moengchaisong]] [[Sachal Jogi|Sachal Jogi]] [[Brenda Flores-Reyes|Brenda&nbsp;Flores-Reyes]] [[JC Maroun|JC Maroun]] [[Lucia Casadei Parlanti|Lucia Casadei Parlanti]] [[Jonathan Garcia|Jonathan Garcia]] [[Ash Hunt|Ash Hunt]] [[Esther Funez|Esther Funez]]  ===Spring 2017=== [[Jessica carlson|Jessica Carlson]] [[Russell W. Perkins|Russell W. Perkins]] [[Yasmin Gomez|Yasmin Gomez]] [[MaxwellBarnes|Maxwell Barnes]] [[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]</div><div><br/></div>[[Category:Student Contributors]][[Category:Menlo_College_(2019_Fall_cohort)]][[Category:Student Contributors]]{{CatTree|Menlo_College}}