An innovative non-profit sector/public/corporate partnership model the Digital Bridge Technology Academy is co-located at YouthSource in Renton and Learning Center North in partnership with Interconnection. Digital Bridge provides a comprehensive 4-month technology training program that is a highly successful model for re-engaging at-risk out-of-school youth (age 16-21) in our community. Only 55.6% of south Seattle's high school students graduate in four years. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation recently reported that there is a national high school dropout epidemic in America. Time magazine has called us A Dropout Nation. According to the recent report released by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation