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July
21-22, 2009, the first High-Impact Technology Exchange
Conference (HI-TEC)
was held at the fabulous Fairmont resort in Scottsdale,
Arizona.
HI-TEC gathered educators from across the country to learn and
benefit from a wide variety of efforts by National Science
Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
Centers and Projects.
NSF had provided an initial grant to seed the conference, with
the understanding that the event needed to become
self-sustaining. It met that goal with more than 600 paid
attendees, who teach more than 25,000 students in a year, and
next year’s HI-TEC conference will take place in Orlando, FL.
The event included two days of pre-conference activities,
including a workshop exploring the intersection of ICT and
biosciences jointly produced by
BATEC,
Biolink
and CSSIA.
That workshop visited the
Arizona
State University Biodesign Institute and observed how
advanced bioscience and biotech research and practice are
utterly dependent on ICT for productivity. Participants
explored opportunities for converged educational offerings
that meet the needs for a workforce with both ICT and
bioscience knowledge and skills.
MPICT participated in event planning, contributed as an event
Producer, manned a Technology Expo booth and presented the
benefits of industry/NSF/ education collaboration with the
story of how we collaborated with Juniper Networks to offer
Juniper courseware for the 1st time in North America at a
public educational institution. That collaboration has become
the global Juniper Academic Alliance.
The presentation is available on
MPICT’s website as MP3/4 downloads or as an Elluminate
session.
Mike Qassaunee, who taught iPhone Programming at MPICT’s 2009
Faculty Development Week, was awarded HI-TEC’s Educator of the
Year by Gordon Snyder, Executive Director of the National ICT
Center, which partnered with MPICT to produce our Winter 2009
ICT Educator Conference in San Francisco.
Attendees networked, socialized and made valuable connections
that will benefit their efforts to improve technical education
in America.
Other ICT related conference sessions included:
• “Green IT”
o by the
Convergence Technology Center
• “Introduction to Computer Virtualization”
o by
Valencia Community College
• “New and Emerging ICT Technologies”
o by the
ICT Center
• “Information Security/Information Assurance”
o by
CyberWatch
• “Information Storage and Management”
o by
EMC
Three great keynote presentations inspired attendees:
• “Tapping In: How to Use Social Media to Reach and Get the
Best from Your Students and Colleagues”
o Retha Hill, Director of the New Media Innovation Lab
at Arizona State University
• “Education Challenges in the 21st Century”
o Cathleen Barton, U.S. Education Manager Intel
Corporation
• “The Future Is Here: Emerging Technologies, Emerging Jobs
and Educational Strategies”
o Jim Brazell, Technology Forecaster Ventureramp, Inc.
For 2010, HI-TEC’s mission is “To create, implement, and
sustain an annual event that is national in scope, technically
focused, and industry endorsed, providing the tools and
knowledge required to be a guiding force for the new American
workforce.”
MPICT’s James Jones will chair the HI-TEC 2010 Business
Committee.
MPICT benefits from association with a large, national
conference focused on NSF ATE funded efforts.
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