Friday Workshops Return for Spring 2023
This spring, the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) will host another round of its popular Friday Workshops series, which deliver cutting-edge professional development for IT faculty nationwide. The Friday Workshop series was developed as a companion to the long-running Working Connections professional development series. But whereas Working Connections runs across consecutive days, the Friday Workshops offers a weekly class model – five Fridays instead of five back-to-back days. Since 2022, the National CTC has offered five-day Friday workshops covering AWS, Azure, PowerShell, and Python topics for over 80 attendees.
This spring, we’re offering four new topics in two separate sessions. Registration is open now.
SESSION I – February 3, 10, 17, 24 and March 3
* “Scripting for Networking Professionals” will use hands-on labs to demonstrate Python scripts used to manage, manipulate/configure, and monitor network devices.
* “AI Awareness and Essentials” will explore fundamental AI and digital competency concepts and skills utilized for classification algorithms (supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning), data preparation, training/using learning models used for Data Analytics, Image Processing, and Natural Language Processing.
SESSION II – April 14, 21, 28 and May 5 and 12
* “Teaching Applied Python Topics” will introduce Python programming skills needed for advanced courses in IOT, Game Development, Data Science (Predictive Analytics) and text file parsing.
* “Learning PowerShell for System Administration” will teach attendees how to use PowerShell – a command line interface (CLI) and a scripting language – to automate common system tasks.
Learn more here.