About DIGI

We Don't Just Teach Technology.
We Create Global Impactors.

DIGI International Society is on a mission to reach incoming 8th graders in South King County and co-design a holistic, immersive, and innovative experience over the course of five transformative years.

The goal is bold and specific: disrupt digital divides, develop servant leaders, create global citizens, and graduate the next generation of Digitally Innovative Global Impactors.

This is not a summer camp. It is not a drop-in program. It is a sustained, five-year commitment to every student who walks through our doors, beginning in 8th grade and continuing through high school graduation.

What DIGI Stands For

D
Digitally fluent in the tools shaping the future
I
Innovative thinkers who solve real problems
G
Global citizens with cross-cultural competency
I
Impactors who serve their communities and lead change

Our Mission

To equip underserved youth in grades 8-12 with technology access, sustained mentorship, cultural immersion, life skills, and community engagement through one integrated, five-year developmental experience that transforms potential into impact.

Our Vision

A world where every young person, regardless of zip code, has the tools, relationships, global exposure, and confidence to lead. Starting in South King County. Expanding to communities everywhere that share our need.

Five Pillars. One Experience.

Tech Access & Enablement
Community Outreach
Cultural Immersion
Life Skills Development
A-Team Mentorship

The Urgency Is Now

The World Changed. Our Students Need to Be Ready.

AI is not coming. It is here. The job market your students will enter in five years will look nothing like the one that exists today. DIGI is building the bridge between where underserved students are and where the economy demands they be.

7x
Growth in demand for AI fluency in just two years
39%
Of current workforce skills will be outdated by 2030
56%
Wage premium for workers with AI skills
60%
Of all workers will need additional training by 2027
AI Literacy Is No Longer Optional

Demand for workers with AI fluency has grown from 1 million to 7 million in just two years. Prompt engineering, AI tool integration, and responsible AI use are now among the fastest-growing skill requirements across every industry, not just tech.

Workers with AI skills already earn a 56% wage premium over their peers. Skills demanded by employers are changing 66% faster in AI-exposed jobs than in any other category. The gap between those who understand AI and those who do not is already a gap in economic mobility.

DIGI does not wait until these students reach college to introduce AI. We build AI prompt training, responsible AI literacy, and hands-on tool proficiency into the program starting in 8th grade, because by the time they graduate, fluency will not be a competitive advantage. It will be a minimum requirement.

Why It Matters for South King County

South King County students come from 181 countries of origin. They speak 189 languages. They are among the most diverse, resourceful, and resilient young people in the Pacific Northwest.

But without targeted intervention, the digital divide becomes an AI divide. Students without internet access, without devices, and without exposure to the tools reshaping every industry will be locked out of the fastest-growing career pathways before they ever apply.

DIGI's five-year model ensures that every student who enters in 8th grade graduates not just digitally literate but AI-fluent, globally aware, and workforce-ready at a level their peers in wealthier districts take for granted.

By 2030, 39% of today's workforce skills will be obsolete. DIGI students will not be catching up. They will already be there.

World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report
Every young person deserves to know that someone chose them, that someone believed in their future before they could see it themselves. DIGI exists to be that someone.

What Drives Us

Built on Belief. Measured by Impact.

💙
Access by Design
Every decision we make begins with the question: does this reach the students who need it most? Access is not an add-on. It is the architecture.
🌎
Global Perspective
We prepare students for a world without borders. International travel, cross-cultural collaboration, and global service are not extras. They are core.
🧠
Whole-Student Development
Technology without mentorship is incomplete. Mentorship without life skills is insufficient. DIGI delivers everything at once because students need everything at once.
🌱
Servant Leadership
DIGI students do not just receive. They serve. Community outreach, peer mentoring, and civic innovation ensure every student graduates as both beneficiary and contributor.
📈
Evidence-Driven
Built on the 40 Developmental Assets, CASEL's SEL Framework, and Positive Youth Development theory. Validated by external university evaluation. We do not guess. We measure.
🤝
Community-Rooted
Founded by someone who grew up in South King County, attended its schools, and returned to build what she wished existed. This is not charity from the outside. It is investment from within.