Planning for the 2016 BDA is well underway. More than 60 volunteers are engaged in marketing, the program, awards and nominations, judging and sponsorships. The celebration will take place the evening of March 1st at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The BDA recognizes IT innovation in the Charlotte region, builds…
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Since we celebrated teaching our 100th student what seems like such long ago we are now looking beyond and to our great lineup for Fall classes. We are continuing strong in the Upstate with our Cyber Studio Classes and hope to reach more children in the coming months. Thanks goes…
Congratulations Greater Columbia BDPA HSCC Team for placing 3rd in the country at the 37th National BDPA High School Computer Competition held in Washington, DC. August 18th – 22nd, 2015 Pictured: National BDPA Vice President, Mike A. Williams; Briana Abraham, Braxton Robinson, and Jalil Peterman The three HSCC team members did…
Join IT-oLogy and the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce for a free special teacher training session on Saturday, September 19. Teachers will be teaching teachers how to deliver focused training modules for high school students. No experience necessary! The course is for teachers in Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester counties.
On August 14th, your company representatives have the opportunity to meet 200 college students representing more than 40 colleges/ universities from across the country – all pursuing computing and IT related majors? These students are in Charlotte to attend the annual STARS Celebration of Broadening Participation in Computing national conference,…
On June 16-18, we hosted students from the Carolina Alliance for Technology. As our President Lonnie Emard said, these kids are future IT stars. The camp, which took place in our Portal, focused on different aspects of robotics. The intimate setting, only about 10 students, allowed for the students to…
The Spark Conference 2015 attracted hundreds of developers and more than 80 high school and middle school students to Uptown Charlotte’s UNC-Charlotte Center City Campus on June 6th. The Conference offered a student track of sessions. Dan Thyer, co-founder of Logical Advantage, led one of the sessions in the IT-oLogy student…
Last month, we highlighted young high school women across the state who were recognized by the National Center of Women in IT (NCWIT) during the North Carolina Aspirations in Computing Awards celebration. Talazia Moore, a former Aspirations winner, and Phllip O’Berry, Technology School alum, received their second NCWIT Aspire IT…
On April 24th IT-oLogy WISE presented the annual National Council of Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) North Carolina Aspirations in Computing Awards. Fifteen young high school women from across the state and a state technology educator were honored at the One Bank of America Conference Center. The event was sponsored…
The team at IT-oLogy would like to take a minute to thank everyone one last time for helping make 2015 the most successful POSSCON ever! Never before have so many people attended, volunteered, and participated as did this year. Just a few of the numbers we’ll be aiming to…