Category Archives: Promote IT

IT-oLogy partners with Code.org to deliver workshops to K-5 teachers in South Carolina and Texas

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In August, IT-oLogy’s own Alicia Thibaudet, Jon Bartschi and Lawrence Ford were invited by Code.org, with about 100 others, to attend an action packed professional development weekend in Las Vegas. The new Code.org K-5 Affiliate program, which is focused on coding curriculum for elementary schools, has developed 3 bands of…

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Blend Conference Cyber Saturday Brings IT Community Together with Local Students

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The following post was written by IT-oLogy Charlotte Executive Director, Kay Read. On Saturday, September 13th, Cyber Saturday offered the student track at the annual Blend Conference, a national user experience, design, front and back-end development conference. Over 80 Grade 6-12 students joined more than 400 IT professionals at the…

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Arts, Crafts, Robots! IT-oLogy and BirdBrain Techologies hold Hummingbird robotics kit workshops for teachers

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The Hummingbird Robotics Kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 13 and up (10 with adult supervision) that involve the making of robots, kinetic sculptures, and animatronics built out of a combination of kit parts and crafting materials….

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