Community • Education • Technology
Where education,
community, &
innovation meet.
Tap Education helps schools, educators, and community organizations navigate emerging technologies, build capacity, and create more equitable learning opportunities.
The Challenge
Innovation shouldn't create another barrier.
Representation Gap
Black, Indigenous, women, and other underrepresented communities often face greater barriers to accessing, shaping, and benefiting from emerging technologies.
Technology Overload
New AI, immersive learning, and digital tools appear constantly, making it difficult to know what is useful.
Limited Capacity
Organizations may lack the time, staff, or expertise needed to properly evaluate and implement new solutions.
Tap Education helps carry that complexity so organizations can stay focused on the communities they serve.
What We Do
Helping organizations turn innovation into impact.
Technology is creating new opportunities at an unprecedented pace, but not every community has equal access to them. Tap Education works with organizations and institutions serving underrepresented communities to provide innovative education and programming that helps people participate, adapt, and thrive in the emerging technology economy.
Discover
Understand needs, goals, and opportunities.
Every organization starts from a different place. Tap Education works with partners to understand their goals, challenges, resources, people, and the communities they serve before recommending a path forward.
What this can include:
- •Needs assessment
- •Stakeholder conversations
- •Readiness mapping
- •Opportunities identification
Mission
Our mission is to provide innovative, technology-focused, culturally accessible education for people navigating the complexities of immersive learning and artificial intelligence.
Vision
A future where everyone has equitable access to high-quality, immersive and experiential learning that prepares people for meaningful careers, strengthens resilience, and builds technological capacity within communities.
Areas of Focus
Meet Our Board of Directors
Michael Avis
Founder, Educator
Charlene Dunstan
Educator & Facilitator
Ashleigh Egerton
Strategic Planning
Linton Garner
Non-For-Profit Consulting
Chaitanya (Chai) Deshpande
Program & Technology Delivery
Lyndsay Wilson
Higher Education & Instructional Design
Rob Wessseling
Financial Services & Co-operative Leadership
Kanem Noel
Cloud & Software Development
Education • Technology • Community
Let's build better pathways to innovation.
