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PHOTOS: Summer Working Connections Texas 2014
Summer Working Connections is wrapping up today. Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and helped make this event a great experience for everyone! Here are some photos from the week.
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Summer Working Connections South was held at the Advanced Technology Center on the campus of Florida State College at Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida. Day one, attendees dived right into hands-on labs and training in one of the three tracks offered: Citrix, VMWare vSphere 5.5 and Advanced Network Analysis, Troubleshooting and Security (Wireshark). There was also…
Read MorePHOTOS: Summer Working Connections North 2014
Summer Working Connections North was held at the campus of Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin. Over the week, attendees enjoyed the hospitality and facilities, while getting their hands dirty in one of the three track topics that were offered: Intro to Digital Forensics, Ethical Hacking and NDG NetLab+ Setup and Operation. In…
Read More2013 Highlights
2013 was the first full calendar year for the Convergence Technology Center acting as a National ATE Center. It was a busy twelve months of conferences, professional development, special projects, and meetings. Lots of meetings. We decided to take a moment to reflect on last year and asked some of our grant partners to…
Read MoreSummer Working Connections by the numbers
Every Summer Working Connections attendee is required to take three surveys during the five-day training event. A short survey on Monday afternoon helps with any necessary course corrections. The two longer, more comprehensive surveys at the end of the training event on Friday afternoon provide an overall look at the program’s success. Together, these surveys…
Read MorePHOTOS: Summer Working Connections South
Enjoy these photos of the wonderful attendees who were at Working Connections South in Jacksonville, Florida. It looks like everyone had a great week!
Read MorePHOTOS: Summer Working Connections Texas
Summer Working Connections 2013 is officially in the books. Thank you to everyone who joined us last week in the Texas heat. The final tally included 108 attendees from 18 states, 65 free textbooks (and, sadly, 20 loaner textbooks), 15 raffle prizes, 8 staff members, 7 tracks, 4 lunches, 3 buildings, and 2 very important…
Read MorePHOTOS: Summer Working Connections North
Summer Working Connections North Ann Beheler and Jen McGarvey were recently in Michigan at Lansing Community College to attend the most recent Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute. It was a great week, offering three excellent tracks (Mobile App Development, Ethical Hacking and EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services) and networking opportunities with exceptional people. Congratulations…
Read MoreA big summer for Working Connections
Working Connections – a cutting-edge, cost-effective professional development program for IT faculty – continues to thrive as one of the National Convergence Technology Center’s crown jewels. This summer we’re celebrating the 12th year hosting our version of Working Connections. Since our first event all the way back in 2002, we’ve trained more than 875…
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