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Myra Stafford
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Myra Stafford is 73 years old. She signed up for the workshop to learn how to use her iPad.
"My daughter gave it to me. She"s been long waiting for me to use it."
Ms. Stafford says she is learning quickly about the device. "I am more confident today than I was before. Today I have more hands-on. Working with young people makes it wonderful because that"s all they know and they didn"t make me feel that I was old or dumb."
Menay Mccague
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Meridy McCague is the director of the 50 Plus Center. "As people are aging, their worlds get a little smaller. Some of them can no longer drive, some of them don"t get out to make long trips to see their relatives. And it brings them back out into Facebook, into Skype and just to be able to communicate. They can do everything from ordering things from Amazon now, to ordering groceries or meals."
Kerry Hannon
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Kerry Harmon is a career and retirement expert. "You have a huge growing population over 60 that"s just expanding, and offers an incredible opportunity to buy online, to research products that they want to buy, maybe not online, but they research them online. About a third of the Internet users in general are over 50. As seniors get more excited about using the technology, they"re going into the market place and buying it. So that"s a boom for economy fight there."
Madison Lain is a 17-year-old teacher for the technology workshop. "I think I"ve learned a lot on how to connect with people and work with them because I"m usually a shy person so I"m not good at connecting with others besides my family and friends. So I"ve learned to be more outgoing."
Satire Windley
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Safire Windley is head of the Youth and Teen Center that operates the program. "I find in this day and age, our younger people, they"re trying to explore and find out how they do they add value to life, just trying to find their way. This is something where they"re needed and their skill set is valued and it gives them purpose."
Now match each people"s name to the appropriate statement.
Note: there are two extra statements.
Statements
A. Young people gain more than just social skills from teaching older residents.
B. It is beneficial to help seniors for young people.
C. The young should take part in the activities.
D. This activity enables the old do more things online and enriches their lives.
E. It helps old people more confident.
F. Teaching senior citizens about technology can prove helpful for the economy.
G. The old have more money than they can spend.