11, 6th-grader at Sylvan Hills
Middle School
Isaiah doesn‘t talk as much as the other
Barnum kids, but he stays just as busy.
Isaiah helps his dad with his deejay
equipment and has learned about computers by watching his dad. ―It‘s pretty
easy to hook up,‖ Isaiah says about his
technical skills. When Cliff had a virus,
Isaiah saw him replacing his hard drive.
Then, when Isaiah‘s uncle gave him a
computer of his own, Isaiah took his
dad‘s hard drive out and put it in his own
computer, all by remembering what he
had seen his dad do, because his dad‘s
computer had music on it that he wanted.
Isaiah and his family like to use their
tech skills to make their own music. In
2009, Isaiah and his brother and dad
wrote and recorded their own alphabet
and counting songs for the kids in Little
Learners Child Development Center at
Our House.
Because of the interest that Isaiah and
other Our House kids have in technology,
our after-school program has increased
the technology activities available to the
kids. Our new Children‘s Center has a
technology room filled with equipment
like PCs, tablets, a sound recording room,
and e-beam with white board paint.