In the summer of 2015, Michael Malachi was working in sales at West Elm, a furniture store in Center City. The job paid the bills but it did not provide Malachi with a fast-paced career and the upward mobility that he longed for.

That’s why he became a Digital Service Fellow as part of the Urban Technology Project’s IT pre-apprenticeship program with theSchool District of Philadelphia.

Malachi, 25, is wrapping up his yearlong term of service where he learned skills like how to reimage Macs and PCs and how to use Google applications.

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