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High School Charlotte Cyber Saturday - 09/13/14
When and where
Date and time
Saturday, September 13, 2014 · 12:30 - 4:30pm EDT
Location
Sheraton Charlotte 555 S. McDowell Street Conference Center Charlotte, NC 28204
Description
Cyber Saturday at Blend Conference
Join us for High School Cyber Saturday on September 13th. We are leveraging some of the Blend Conference ‘best of the best’ tech talent and have a cool hands-on session planned for you.
Date: Saturday, September 13
Time: 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm Note new starting time.
Location: Charlotte Sheraton Conference Center, 555 S. McDowell Street.
Map:http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/area/map.html?propertyID=3986
Parking: Hotel parking lot or garage.
Register:https://hscharlotteseptcybersaturday2014.eventbrite.com
Session A: Persistence of Vision (PoV) Rocket Badge! Build a PoV display in the shape of a rocket. You will earn how to solder electrical components to a circuit board. After the session, go to a website to customize the displayed message.
Session B: Code for America(Charlotte Team)Learn how you can become a part of the solution. The Code for America team in the City of Charlotte is working to increase citizen engagement with access to relevant and accurate information.
College Panel: Hear from college students in the field of technology. What’s cool? Why did they choose IT? What do they plan on doing after school? Do you have to have a college degree? …….
About Cyber Saturday. Cyber Saturday is a free monthly program run by IT-oLogy partners where students can learn more about IT. These creative sessions cover avariety of IT topics including hands-on activities as well as presentations from IT professionals.
About Blend Conference. A generalist conference featuring 60+ diverse speakers sharing ideas and conversations about user experience, design, front-end and back-end development.
For information, contact Kay Read, kay.read@it-ology.org
About the organizer
IT-oLogy is a non-profit collaboration of businesses, academic institutions and other organizations dedicated to growing the IT talent pipeline and advancing the IT profession. IT-oLogy has three main initiatives: Promote IT (K-12), Teach IT (Higher Education), Grow IT (Professionals and Businesses). For more information, please call us at 704-516-3633, visit us at www.it-ology.org, or follow us on Twitter @IT-oLogy.