Submitted
2025 Indigenous Communities Fellowship

Tipi Tech

Team Leader
Chris Cuny
Tipi Tech also represents a prototype geo-metric structure designed by myself Chris Cuny as to which was meant to help build a safer and affordable housing on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation utilizing the local work force. The new modern designed Tipi will help develop the future learning labs helping the community access GED curriculum and the trades intro for...
What is the name of your organization?
Tipi Tech
What is the name of your solution?
Tipi Tech
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Tipi Tech will help bring forward the necessary community learning labs to help further their life skills and job training portfolio
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Manderson, SD 57756, USA
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
USA
What type of organization is your solution team?
Not registered as any organization
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What specific problem are you solving?
The high drop out rate within the reservation for the last few generations has created a education gap for the community to help curb the social ills generated from the high rate of poverty and access to healthy foods that help with barriers to learning proficiency.
What is your solution?
Tipi Tech also represents a prototype geo-metric structure designed by myself Chris Cuny as to which was meant to help build a safer and affordable housing on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation utilizing the local work force. The new modern designed Tipi will help develop the future learning labs helping the community access GED curriculum and the trades intro for the person seeking a skill. The Tipi's modular structure design will be the template for a future site build which will be a representation of the peoples skills program once we reach that level of construction development.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
My current target market are the people from the ages of 12- 60 who are wanting to engage in an innovative solutions approach to a more sustainable life in self improvement. Our youth engagement is in need of a more hands on approach when building of an idea or dream that needs a support system to help develop their skills. The adults may have dropped out of high school because of personal and lack of a traditional social infrastructure that stopped them from pursuing their dream of doing something greater than themselves. Tipi Tech will build a team from the peoples skills program offered to the community who are willing to make that change in their lives and give them the ability to help their fellow person in the community by empowering them with a new set of life skills and hope for a more achievable future.
Solution Team:
Chris  Cuny
Chris Cuny
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