Computing a New Direction

"I didn't know anything about the computer, except it had a keyboard and you could type some stuff on it," Henry Sharpe, entrepreneur and former Osiris student.

David Hiel and Sally Mahmoud collaborate on a story about Osiris, a computer training program founded by Bill Roddy and his wife. The couple gave up six-figure incomes to introduce at-risk teenagers, many of whom were in juvenile jails, to the world of computers — and possibly a new lease on life.

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