News
The MassNetComms 2009 Scholarship Application is now available
Massachusetts Life Science Center has launched the Life Sciences Internship Challenge
NSF Supported Resources for STEM Teachers - "Teaching Technicians"
Visit the Commonwealth Alliance for IT Education (CAITE) website for students interested in IT careers
BATEC is a partner in the new NSF Broadening Participation in Computing Grant with University of Massachusetts Amherst
Events
Spotlight
Upcoming Events
Register Now! - BATEC Summer Institutes,
July 1 - 31
The BATEC Summer Institutes will be held between July 1st - 31st this year at Bristol Community College, Bunker Hill Community College and the University of Massachusetts Boston. Topics will include: Cisco, Dreamweaver, Flash, Java, Innov8, Microsoft Office, and many others. For a full list of courses, the schedule and registration 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
Community College Fair - Friday, May 8th
The Community College Fair took place this year on Friday, May 8th at the Reggie Lewis Track and Field Center. Approximately 250 high school students attended the event and learned about programs offered at six area colleges. Students also had the opportunity to learn from keynote speaker Chesterfield Coppin, who is an RCC alumnus and current adjunct professor. Students also had the opportunity to learn more about programs like City Year and the Accuplacer test. For information about past community college fairs, please contact Jibril Solomon at jsolomon@techboston.org
6th Annual BATEC IT Regional College Fair - Friday, April 3rd
BATEC's sixth annual IT Regional College Fair was held on Friday, April 3rd at the Reggie Lewis Track and Field Center in Roxbury from 8:00-1:00 pm. For more information about the College Fair, please contact BATEC Outreach Director, Jibril Solomon via email at jsolomon@techboston.org.
ICT Futures Forum - Friday, February 27th
The BATEC ICT Futures Forum was held on Friday, February 27th at Staples Headquarters. David Brown who is an independent IT and Business Consultant served as this year's keynote speaker and shared his thoughts on "The Future of the IT Organization".
Presenters will joining us from Bio-Link, Cisco, Convergence Technology Center, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, Norh Shore Medical Center and VMware.
For more information on the ICT Futures Forum, please click here.
ICT Careers Day - Tuesday, November 25th
In conjunction with CAITE (Commonwealth Alliance for IT Education), BATEC held it's ICT Careers Day at UMass Boston in the Campus Center Ballroom. 350 students, teachers, and invited guests spent the day learning from industry experts about the careers that exist in Information Technology today.
Joining as presenters were representatives from Bunker Hill Community College, EMC Educational Services, IBM, Microsoft Corporation, nTag, Recombinant Data Corporation, Suffolk Technology Partners and the University of Massachusetts Boston. Students had the opportunity to attend two workshops sessions, which included topics such as: biomedical informatics, entrepreneurship, gaming, GIS, RFID, information and storage management, and others. The day's agenda ran 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
If you are interested in being a presenter for next year's ICT Careers Day, please email Dawn Zapata, BATEC Project Manager at dzapata@bhcc.mass.edu
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/
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.
