Oakland Technology And Education Center

Oakland Technology and Education Center is Community, College/University, Faith-based collaborative. Officially Founded in 2002 by a University California, Professor from the Graduate School of Education and a Community member, Documentary filmmaker and educational program designer. OTEC runs several programs under its umbrella including the in-school and after-school literacy program referred to as D.U.S.T.Y. Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth, which a literacy instructional program calibrated to State standards, and it includes digital music making, photography, and digital storytelling. In addition to this DUSTY runs a writing, literacy, and multi-media workshop for adults and seniors, a family literacy and technology program. Learning Through Laughter is another program that teaches the fundamentals of Stand Up Comedy and storytelling through any discourse of work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, in media, stand-up, books, novels, or any other medium of entertainment. Another program that is under OTEC is AfroComicCon. AFCC is a three-day event which is an innovative exciting, new interactive comic convention that combines, art, tech, workshops, gaming, cosplay, fashion, writing, creativity, film, AR/VR and FLASH. FLASH is Fit Like A Super Hero.