Hands On! Technology is a nonprofit organization providing technology mentoring programs for seniors and middle/high school youth in the North Louisiana area. The program will form partnerships with community centers and local school districts. Hands On! Technology's goal is to foster a commitment to both seniors and young people that will promote educational and mental growth, develop strong interpersonal skills, and reassert a sense of confidence instead of fear in the future of technology. Only through hands on interactions with technology can a sense of individual knowledge and individual growth be established that will give youth the commitment to follow through on path to adulthood as well as providing mental physical therapy to seniors to help take on both the challenges and the opportunities of longer life, of aging.

Through repeated failures in the classroom and the development of destructive habits, at-risk young people have lost faith in the possibilities that await them if they are successful in putting their lives together. To accomplish this goal, young people must be in a caring, inclusive learning environment that promotes their best effort and reinforces personal respect.

Hands On! Technology is a program that is in direct response to the growing number of young people that are either falling through the cracks at school or are already entangled with the juvenile court system. The goal of the program is to identify youths who are going to have a turbulent transition to adulthood and offer positive support system to avoid the pitfalls that can derail their lives. The focus is slightly different at each level but the goal remains the same; empower the young person to make positive changes in his/her life.