News

NCTT is holding the ICT Educators Conference on January 8-9 in San Francisco. Click here for more information.

NSF Supported Resources for STEM Teachers - "Teaching Technicians". Click here to visit the site.

BATEC's 4th Annual Outreach Summit held on June 11th at BHCC.

The Commonwealth Alliance for IT Education (CAITE) has launched a new student IT website. Click here to visit it!

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Upcoming Events

ICT Careers Day - Tuesday, November 25th

Last year, in conjunction with CAITE (Commonwealth Alliance for IT Education), BATEC held it's ICT Careers Day at UMass Boston in the Campus Center Ballroom. 470 students, teachers, and invited guests spent the day learning from industry experts about the careers that exist in Information Technology today.

Since this event was such a success, we will be holding it again this year on Tuesday, November 25th at UMass Boston in the Campus Center Ballroom. The day's agenda will run as follows:

8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Workshop Session 1
10:05 Workshop Session 2
11:15 Industry Speakers
12:00 Lunch and Raffle
1:00 Adjourn

Class registration:
If you are interested in bringing your students to this event, please fill out the class list registration form and email it to Dawn Zapata, BATEC Project Manager at dzapata@bhcc.mass.edu.

Presenter registration:
If you will be running a workshop for the students, please click here to register.

Volunteers:
If you are volunteering to assist during the event, please email your name, phone number, email and times available during the event day to Katie McGeary, Office Assistant, katie.mcgeary@umb.edu. Thank you in advance for joining us!

IT Futures Forum - Friday, February 27th

Please save the date for BATEC's IT Futures Forum, which will be held on Friday, February 27th at Staples Headquarters in Framingham. More information about this event will be made available here soon.

To register, please click here.

BATEC Publications and Presentations

Educational Pathway Strategies for IT Students: 2008 NCPN Conference Presentation

Jibril Solomon, BATEC Outreach Director, presented a talk entitled "Educational Pathway Strategies for IT Students: Lessons Learned by BATEC" at the National Career Pathways Network Conference on October 22-25, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Please click here for the presentation.

BATEC Releases "The Gap Guide"

BATEC has just released "The Gap Guide: A Resource for Educators Working with Industry" by BATEC Curriculum Director, Joyce LaTulippe. The guide was developed by LaTulippe with the input of several of BATEC's partners in education and industry. The guide outlines specific steps educators can take to partner with industry in their community.

Questions about the guide can be directed to Ms. LaTulippe at joyce@batec.org.

A copy of "The Gap Guide" is available for download by clicking here.

BATEC Releases Comprehensive Study on IT Workforce Skills

This year-long study presents data on current and future IT workforce skills requirements gathered from IT workers, hiring managers, and strategic planners from companies such as Raytheon, Staples, Partners Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Molecular, Whaleback Systems and many more. The study focuses on technician and technologist jobs in IT and will help community colleges, 4-year universities, and secondary schools provide an adequate supply of properly skilled IT professionals to domestic and trans-national enterprises whose operations are increasingly IT-enabled and more IT-dependent. This study was conducted by Peter Saflund of The Saflund Institute in Kent, WA and benchmarked our region's needs against several other areas across the country. For more information about the study, please contact, Deborah Boisvert, BATEC Director, at deborah.boisvert@umb.edu or 617.287.7295.

This report is available for free download here (please note this is a 5.5Mb file!) or in hard copy for $20 to include printing and mailing costs. For more information about copies, please contact Dawn Zapata, BATEC Project Manager, at dzapata@bhcc.mass.edu or 617.228.2388.

BATEC Releases Outreach Toolkit

BATEC has released a Community Outreach Toolkit, a manual that has been designed to assist community colleges in their outreach planning efforts. A hard copy of this toolkit has been sent to the directors of the IT and Enrollment Divisions of each community college in the area in hopes that it will help them outline effective strategies for successful outreach events.

If you have any questions about the toolkit, please contact Jibril Salaam, BATEC Higher Education Consultant, at 617-590-4908, jsalaam@techboston.org.

A copy of the toolkit is available for download here.

(Please note: the pagination of the printed copy differs from that of the electronic version that appears here. Blank pages necessary for printing have been removed here for the convenience of the reader).

Recent Programs & Events

Massachusetts STEM Summit V- Tuesday, October 28th

BATEC, along with 18 other academic and industry partners in Massachusetts, co-supported the STEM Summit V on Tuesday, October 28th in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. The Summit, held at Sturbridge Host and Hotel Conference Center, welcomed about 550 people including educators (both PK-12 and higher education), community and business leaders and state and local-level policy makers. The Summit addressed the state's current challenge of graduating enough students to fill the open STEM workforce positions.

The purpose of the STEM Summit is to explore and analyze the problem and its solutions, extend exemplary, extant practices, determine the roles of the various players and mobilize the Commonwealth's STEM community to:

1. Dramatically increase student interest in and preparation for careers in STEM and

2. Increase the number of highly qualified teachers in STEM and provide them with timely professional development programs support.

If you would like more information about STEM Summit V, please visit: http://www.massachusetts.edu/stem/

ICT Transfer Meetings at UMass Boston

BATEC and CAITE have held continuing ICT Transfer Meetings at the University of Massachusetts Boston. These meetings, taking place on Friday, September 26th and Friday, November 7th, have centered on discussions about pathways, outcomes and validation of student knowledge, skills and attributes, as well as on dual enrollment activities at each institution and the 2 year body of knowledge developed by SIGITE. Future meeting dates will be announced on this site and through the BATEC email list. To join the list, please email BATEC Project Manager Dawn Zapata, dzapata@bhcc.mass.edu.

Synergy 2008 - July 23-26 in Phoenix, AZ

Synergy 2008 was held on July 23-26 in Phoenix and was the third in a sequence of biannual conferences focused on technological education reform from the perspective of community colleges. Previous events were held in Nashville, Tennessee in 2004 and Boston, Massachusetts in 2006. These conferences bring together participants from across the country who are related to initiatives focused on addressing key aspects of technological education reform. Participants come to this event in anticipation of achieving synergy from their collective experiences and working together at the event. The conference themes have progressed from Problem Definition to Sharing of Innovations and ultimately to Achieving Scale in Technological Innovation and Transformation; the theme of Synergy 2008.

For more information on the 2008 conference proceedings will be made available at www.synergy2008.org. To read more about Synergy 2006, click here.

BATEC Summer Institutes: July 7-August 11th

The BATEC Summer Institutes were held from July 7-10 at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, from July 14- August 8th at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown, from July 21-24 at Bristol Community College in Fall River, and on August 11th at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Over 120 educators attended 16 different courses at four partnering locations. For information about what courses were offered, please click here.

College Fair - Friday, April 4, 2008

The 2008 College Fair was held on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at the Reggie Lewis Track and Field Center in Roxbury Crossing. Over 40 colleges and educational support service organizations were in attendance as well as over 850 high school students from the Boston-area.

Financial aid and admissions staff were on hand to talk about the process of applying for college. Students also learned about pathways to technology jobs after college. Advisors were on hand to counsel students about the pathways to higher education. With the generous donation of Microsoft, one lucky student received a Zune MP3 player. Other students were awarded video game packages, digital cameras, USB drives and other prizes.