The Boys & Girls Club of Albany offers a seamless environment by integrating its core programming with expanding technology. Our most recent development, Club Pla.net (Partnership for Learning and Achievement '.net') encourages learning and achieving by covering basic computer concepts and general information systems. Students will disassemble and reassemble computers while learning the terminology and function of each component.

The process of hands-on experience and repetition will provide youth around the world with basic skills to utilize the benefits of technology throughout their lives. Once the computers are assembled and tested, they are stored on-site, and then distributed to youth at home and around the globe. The focus of Club Pla.net is to target the communities and cultures that would otherwise not have the resources and skills necessary for becoming self-sufficient, productive, and responsible adults.

The ".net" in Club Pla.net symbolizes a network of youth using a safe and protected means of communication (i.e. e-pals). This communication will not only educate the youth of other cultures by introducing them to communities across the world, but also create partnerships between them. Club Pla.net provide youth with a variety of topics from everyday living, global economic conditions, and an exchange of computer related skills.

Our intent is to provide youth with advantages as they make their way through the dawn of the technological age. The relationships built through Club Pla.net will be meaningful; inspiring our youth to make an impact in their world.