Archive for July 2017
Student Feature: Michael Cyrus
After being fed up with a slew of dead-end, low-paying jobs in everything from the retail and food industries to moving companies and foundation repair, Collin College student Michael Cyrus picked up a book on ethical hacking. He couldn’t put it down and immediately after went online to look for colleges that offered a cybersecurity…
Read MoreIntegrating Data Visualization Tools in the Curriculum
Today’s post comes from guest writer, Rajiv Malkan, professor at Lone Star College in Montgomery, TX, a partner school of the National Convergence Technology Center. Big Data Analytics and Data Visualization are becoming a norm in business today. Data visualization allows the organization to interact with data to identify business trends and insights. As Internet…
Read MorePHOTOS: Summer Working Connections 2017
Last week we wrapped up Summer Working 2017. This annual event remains one of the National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) crown jewels. Over seventy IT instructors (including 18 first timers) from 18 states gathered at the Frisco, Texas campus of Collin College and enjoyed a hot North Texas week of the summer. Attendees chose to…
Read MoreTop Skills the Top Companies Want
LinkedIn recently released a list of the top companies to work for in 2017. Almost all were linked to IT in some way, whether they were an IT company, an Internet company or a company with IT needs. Over the last decade, technology has transformed almost every major company in the world. While leadership, collaboration…
Read MoreA Success Story for Virtual Labs
One of the benefits available to “Level 1” members of the National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) Convergence College Network community is access to free Network Development Group (NDG) online virtual labs to support A+, Net+ and Security+ courses. Since 2016, these CTC virtual labs – hosted by grant partner schools Collin College, Georgia Southern University,…
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