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Brothers in Technology inspires teens to see their future selves unlimited

If the crusade to get more young men of color into engineering careers was just a matter of dazzling them with gadgetry, the Brothers in Technology Conference lit up all those buttons. But the heart of the B.I.T Conference had something much bigger inside.

Urban TEC drives an 'HBCU Girl's' rebel mission

Ina P. Montgomery, creator of Urban TEC, is still the tempest who – after a white suburban Kansas City guidance counselor told her she probably wasn’t college material – declared with great Black pride that she’d storm the world in business for herself right out of high school.