The Technology Youth Team is a collaborative team of partners, corporations, celebrities, and individuals working together to design effective programs that address the digital divide problem.

We would like to invite you to join the Technology Youth Team. This team will consist of thoughtful community leaders, celebrities, corporate leaders, governmental agencies representatives and educational institutional leaders who meet three times per year to advise the Delta Beta Lambda Foundation Board of Directors.

The responsibilities of Technology Youth Team members are to:

• Attend at least two meetings per year, each held on a weekday from 8:00 am to 9:45 am.(via web Conference, conference calls, video meeting)
• Contribute your expertise and thinking to the current and future work of Delta Beta Lambda Foundation
• Be available for four to five telephone calls each year from staff seeking advice
• Allow Delta Beta Lambda Foundation to publish your name as a member of the Technology Youth Team.
• Participate in a least 1 board approved event or program sponsored by Delta Beta Lambda Foundation.

In return, Delta Beta Lambda Foundation promises you:

• A complimentary professional level Delta Beta Lambda Fraternity Inc membership during your term on the Technology Youth Team.
• An appreciation of your time and a commitment not to abuse your time or your generosity Technology Youth Team terms are for two years. (Schedule of Events for Technology Youth Team) Coming Soon!

Please complete Technology Youth Team Advisory Board Inquiry

We will be calling you within the next few days to answer your questions and to give you a personal invitation to join the Team. Thank you and we look forward to talking with you.

Dyanne W. Lyles' professional career might be best described as educator. As a teacher, artist, and mentor she has devoted the last twenty eight years of her life to motivating and guiding middle school students to their highest potential. Her innovative teaching methods and creative strategies challenge students to perform to the very best of their abilities. She is a master teacher that reaches past the classroom walls to create opportunities for students to express themselves. Her philosophy: "The qualities and skills I bring to teaching enrich me and benefit others to make a positive difference in the lives of others."

In addition to teaching middle school, she is a devoted advocate for disadvantaged youths. She works rigorously in her church as executive director of their Discovery Summer Camp Program for children ages K4-11 years old. She has also taught in the Upward Bound Program for disadvantaged high school students.

Furthermore, Dyanne is a magna cum laude graduate of Claflin University with a BA in Art Education. She also attended the University of South Carolina earning a Master of Arts in Teaching with an additional 30 plus credit hours in education from Converse College, Furman University, and Limestone College.

As a woman and educator she is dedicated to helping solve the problems of cyclical poverty and chronic disadvantage by investigating and searching for effective local and state programs that strengthens families and improves the care and education of our youth. She believes that all concerned individuals must realize that investing in the futures of disadvantaged youth necessitates a significant financial commitment. This is why she firmly believes that the non-profit organizations are a crucial part of our society providing the help for the disadvantaged and education for a lifetime. Her job and goal is to seek and search for those fiscal sponsorships.

Dyanne was selected as Teacher of the Year for the 2003-2004 school years at her middle school. Dyanne is married and is the proud mother of two sons. They reside in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Stacey Blodgett is originally from Lincoln, Rhode Island and moved to South Carolina in 1989.

While working for a major Upstate corporation, Stacey was directly responsible for their contributions budget and grant awards designated specifically for worthwhile organizations within South Carolina. During that time she also became the liaison between the company and the school district, organizing events geared towards graduating seniors to assist them in planning for the future and making wise education decisions.

Stacey purchased The UPS Store in 2001 and successfully increased sales over 43% in her first year of business. Being a small business owner enabled her to become involved in community service and she served on committees such as the Red Cross planning committee for RetroFest and also became a sponsor of this event annually.

Today, Stacey joins our organization as an advisor and sponsorship leader and hopes to make a valuable contribution towards the education of Upstate youth.

Stacey's two children, Tyler (15) and Madison (11) have been fortunate enough to learn computer skills and under Stacey's direction, assist their friends in a "mentoring" capacity. We hope to carry this forward into our organization as we encourage other children to "mentor a friend" and become involved with educating others.

Mr. Whiteside has been working his entire business career in with small business environment. Working for others in the traditional business world in his early career, he was often challenged to correct specific issues and problems within small business. His areas of concentration in area commercial credit training, financial strategic placement, company structuring and project management. The rewards of these challenges and the successes that followed, led to the passion for a transition to a full-time, independent small-business advisor, management consultant, and change agent. The last 11 years have been spent as a change agent, implementing change management in a wide-variety of business environments, including family businesses and closely held companies; working exclusively with business owners and principals. He is a member of Project Management Institute, Risk Management Association and National Credit Management Association. He has received executive education training at the following institutions: Harvard Executive Education Program on Negotiations 1998, Columbia University 1997, and Massachusetts institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management 2002, Duke University Fuqua School of Business Executive Education Program on Financial Reporting for non Financial Managers 2002, and American Management Association Advanced Leadership Program 2004 and Project Management Training at Midland Technical College 2007.

DBLCLAN an online gaming community was established in 2003 by Mr. Whiteside and co founders Wayne Hayton, John Lewis, Don Johnson and Larry Clark. The purpose was recruit mature gamers that all had a common goal of mentoring to the youth that played online. The initial member age range was 28-38 years old and the goal was simple have fun in playing on XBOX Live and provide positive reinforcement for youth exposed to online. Mr. Whiteside personal goal is to provide mentorship to online gamers through positive goal directed online communities with a purpose.

Mr. Hayton is currently licensed in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina in the Life and Health Insurance industry and is currently appointed with four nationally known Insurance Companies. He is also a Certified Police Officer in State of Tennessee and has spent the last fourteen years as either a full time or reserve officer and was the first sworn Reserve Officer for the City. Mr. Hayton was the Vice President of a Commercial Real Estate Development Company for six years developing numerous Shopping Centers throughout Tennessee and Virginia as well as overseeing the leasing and property management of close to one million square feet and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Mr. Hayton is a Veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in the Dental/Medical field aboard the submarine tenders USS LY SPEAR, USS EMORY S LAND, and the USS HUNLEY of which Mr. Hayton received numerous letters of accommodations. Mr. Hayton has a passion for video gaming even though he is a few years older than the traditional gamer, and is proud to have developed friendships as well as business relationships through what you would refer to as a video game. Mr. Hayton believes it is more than just a game.

Mr. Lewis has spent the past 10 years of his business career working in the executive management and operations of the mortgage finance industry and the last 3 years in the real estate industry. His areas of expertise are in mortgage underwriting, secondary market mortgage portfolios, branch management, residential and commercial lending, and residential real estate sales. Mr. Lewis is a member of the National Board of Realtors, Spartanburg Board of Realtors, Mortgage Bankers Association, Risk Management Association, National Association of Sales Professionals, and American Management Association. He received his executive educational training at the following Project Management Training, Midland Technical College 2007, Darden School of Business Minority Business Executive Training Program, University of Virginia 2005, and Advanced Leadership Training, American Management Association 2004. Mr. Lewis has spent several years speaking before various youth organizations about the importance of business leadership and mentoring. Video gaming and the industry has always been and will always be a passion of Mr. Lewis.

Mr. Van E. Staggs Jr., is vice president of Public Relations for Delta Beta Lambda Fraternity, the first online video gaming fraternity that provides mentoring and full academic scholarships in the fields of video game design and technology to disadvantaged and deserving youths throughout the United States and abroad. At an early age growing up in Norwalk Connecticut, Mr. Staggs found the love for video gaming. He and his friends would meet every morning at the local arcade before classes, after school, and on weekends; not to mention playing at home on the Atari 2600. Twenty-five years later, he still has the same love for video gaming.

Mr. Staggs is a cum laude graduate of Benedict College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. While at Benedict, Mr. Staggs was active in Benedict's upward bound program whose activities were to all designed to provide holistic experiences to enhance academic, social, and cultural development while establishing and cultivating partnerships and relations within the community. Over the past 12 years, he has held various upper management positions in several corporations. He is very active within his community volunteering his time to various social service organizations. He has also been very successful in the field of Real Estate as an investor and Commercial Real Estate consultant. Prior to his current position, he was employed as a loan officer with SunTrust Bank and Blue Ridge Savings Bank respectfully. He is the loving husband of Michele and decided father of two girls Abriella 5 years, and Aavyn 1year.

Mr. Williams is the youngest out the group but is a prime example of the type of leadership qualities that DBL brings out in today's youth. Charlie B Williams III (27) is a creative professional in the Gaming entertainment industry and is quickly making a name for himself in his chosen field of profession. Charlie Graduated from the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg IL. Upon Graduating in 2004 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts and Animation. This Eventually lead him to land his first Job with Electronic Arts where he had a pivotal role in creating assets for numerous titles thus having credits with Some of EA' s Biggest titles such as EA sports Fight Night Round 3 For XBOX 360 play station 2 Xbox and also being Credit on other block buster titles like EA DEF Jam Icon for the Xbox 360 Play station 3. After Charlie time at Electronic Arts-Chicago he then moved on to his current position at Independent studios by the name of High voltage Software and there sister company Red Eye Studios where he is Now a Lead Environment Artist.. Being a well round artist allows him to do to everything from corporate identity to brand management, as well as graphic and web design. Charlie brings over 6 plus years of artistic and technical knowhow to the DBL brand.