Celebrating the Achievements of our Digital Mentors!

On Saturday the 25th of May, we wrapped up our 2023 - 2024 Be Connected Digital Exchange Program with our Partners Day Celebration! This event was all about thanking our Digital Mentors for their efforts and celebrating their successes with awards and prizes. 

After the success of our Community and Intergenerational Digital Exchange program over the past few years we were very excited to be able to run this program again, made possible through funding support from the Good Things Foundation as part of the Australian Government Be Connected Program. The program termed cDEX and iDEX trains community members and high school students to become digital mentors to family and community members over 50 years of age, bringing digital literacy learning and support to those who need it. 

During this round of the program we trained students from 5 high schools as well as community members to become Digital Mentors. In total we trained 112 mentors and they invested over 89 hours of their time mentoring. This meant that 77 individuals were given a digital skills ‘hand up' which is a great achievement!

We are so proud of our mentors and the amazing work they have done in their community. Both student and community mentors attended the celebration along with family members and learners. Food was shared and awards and prizes were presented and it was wonderful to be able to thank our mentors and acknowledge their commitment to the program and their successes.

Congratulations to all the Digital Mentors who participated in our program, thank you for making a difference in your community and helping others to discover the digital world.