About Us
Our mission is to provide computer resources for children and families to discover technology through hands-on activities. Please feel free to contact us with any requests you may have regarding our classes, private tutoring, special events, or consulting work.
We develop and implement a variety of programs, staffed by experienced technical instructors, to teach children about computers and programming. We offer workshops and classes to help build children's skills in math, art, puzzle- and problem-solving, music, computer programming, and language arts. Our classes, technology camp summer sessions, and computer-themed birthday parties all introduce children to computer operations and to creative uses of technology.
Additional services provided include technical writing, children's books, graphic design, and Web site design and development. Revenues from these secondary services help to fund our low-cost computer learning and technology enrichment programs for families. View a list of our recent corporate clients.
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Eileen Mullin
GenuineClass was launched by Eileen Mullin, a former Wall Street executive who has written five books on XML, Internet services and graphic design. Her most recent book is Programming the Web Using XML. As vice president of global HR Internet Strategy for Merrill Lynch, she oversaw human resources Web sites and applications for the firm worldwide. Previously she served as program director, content programming for ibm.com, where she managed all interactive content for IBM's corporate Web site.
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Huen (Alex) Wong
C tutoring, Java tutoring
Alex is going for his master's in computer science at Queens College; he has
taught at the National Urban Technology Center as well as a having served
previously as a private computer tutor.
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Russell Dale
Introduction to Programming and C/C++ tutoring
Russell Dale is not only a computer programmer who has taught programming and computer skills to many children, but also a musician who has taught children for many years. Russell led the technology group at WideLines, L.L.C., where he was chief architect of the firm's software and managed the programming group. As a project leader at Information Builders, Inc., he solved a number of difficult middleware server communication problems and security challenges.
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Joshua Kaden
VisualBasic tutoring
Joshua Kaden got his start in the computer business in 1991 as a temp doing data entry. Frustrated with the interface, he redesigned it, and went on to revamp and manage the whole database. He spent the next few years working with a variety of database applications, mostly in the DOS/Windows environment. In 1995, for a change of pace, he worked for a university as the network administrator, where he implemented an innovative process that configured the classroom computers automatically. While at the university he experimented with VisualBasic, and liked it so much that he went to work as a VB programmer in 1997. He's been using VB professionally ever since, along with Access and SQL Server. He currently works in Manhattan, and lives in Woodhaven with his wife, Jodi Shaw, and cat, Colette. |
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Lee Steele
Make Your Own Digital Caricatures
Lee Steele works in New York as an art director at a publishing company. His editorial cartoons used to appear in several newspapers in the area, and he also worked as a journalist and copywriter. He lives in Connecticut where he
spends most of his time looking in the mirror, watching his youth fade.
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Ross Rubin
Build Your Own PC
Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis at NPD Techworld, a division of market research and analysis provider The NPD Group. His areas of interest include digital television, wireless networks, personalization, Internet appliances, and data broadcasting. |
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Chippy
Chippy pens the Ask Chippy column on the GenuineClass Web site and parents' newsletter. |
We aim to enhance children's understanding and use of technology by utilizing well-equipped labs managed by knowledgeable staffers who are IT professionals. We offer classes in the metropolitan New York City area at three locations — two in Manhattan (at TechSpace in Union Square and at Netcom Information Techologies in the Empire State Building) and one in Long Island City in Queens. We offer flexible scheduling — to accommodate other after-school activities — in our extensive, diverse range of classes taught by instructors with extensive relevant professional experience.
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