Events/Conferences
NSF Shares Best Practices
The Department of Labor recently asked the National Science Foundation to provide technical assistance services to DOL “TAACCCT” grantees. (If you haven’t heard the term “TAACCCT,” the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant program was established with the signature of President Barack Obama in early 2010. It set aside $2 billion, which…
Read MoreA Look Into the Future of IT
Instructors from Convergence College Network (CCN) member schools recently enjoyed a special treat during the HI TEC conference in Portland, Oregon. NetApp – a multi-billion-dollar data storage and management company with 12,000 employees around the world – arranged a special presentation and facility tour at its new data center in Hillsboro, just 15 minutes west…
Read MorePHOTOS: Working Connections Think Tank Track Cisco Tour
As part of the special “Think Tank” track of Summer Working Connections, a handful of lucky IT educators boarded a charter bus one hot Thursday afternoon and took a trip across town to visit the Cisco Systems campus in Richardson, Texas. Cisco executives graciously allowed this “Think Tank” group to visit two facilities, including the…
Read MoreFour Things We Learned at the 2015 “HoNeST” Conference
We recently spent a day on the Ericsson campus in Plano, Texas attending the “Hot Topics in Networking and Security” conference, cleverly shortened to the acronym “HoNeST.” This event was coordinated by the University of North Texas’ Department of Computer Science and Engineering and featured both academic perspectives on networking and security as well as…
Read MorePHOTOS: HoNeST Conference
Recently, I attended the HoNeST Conference at Ericsson in Plano, TX. Short for “Hot Topics in Networks and Security, security was definitely the topic of the day, with speaking on everything from security as the “internet of things” develops to figuring out the best security methods for voting. This was my first conference to attend with…
Read MoreTen Things We Learned at MPICT 2015
I spent two days at the Winter 2015 ICT Educator Conference in San Francisco recently. In between my usual administrative duties, I was able to attend several conference breakout sessions that covered a variety of topics, from program development and best practices to the basics of cloud computing and cyberforensics. Below are ten things I…
Read MorePHOTOS: Winter Working Connections 2014
Another successful week at Winter Working Connections 2014! I was pleased to be an attendee this year in our Social Media track. I really enjoyed participating and got to see first hand why so many Working Connections attendees keep coming back year after year!
Read MorePHOTOS: ATE PI Conference 2014
Last week, the CTC grant staff, partners and students attended the 2014 ATE PI Conference in Washington, DC. Great sessions, great speakers and great conversations made this conference one of the best yet! It was wonderful to hear about all of the exciting things the NSF ATE centers and projects are doing. Having a yearly…
Read More2014 Fall Conference Previews
It is a great privilege to be involved with so many different, high-quality conferences each year. The opportunities to share information, meet new people and have really great discussions on different topics relating to IT education, are some of the many reasons we participate in these events. This fall will be busy for us as…
Read MoreCross-border Collaboration
Just last week, our very own PI, Dr. Ann Beheler presented at a technology conference unlike any other she has presented at in the past. What was so special about this conference, you may ask? Well, this particular event happened to be in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The Cybera Cyber Summit 2014 was a two day…
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