Computing Day 2006
- Computing Day 2006 was held on Friday, March 10, 2006, from 8:30 to 10:30 am.
- About 65 to 70 students from area schools, grades 6 through 12, attended.
- This program was designed to introduce students to various areas of computing and to encourage
students to consider a possible career in this field.
- The program was as follows:
- A Computer Crime Scene Investigation, Br. David Carlson, CIS Dept Chairperson
- Graphics and Animation in Visual Basic, Ms. Colleen Carr, CIS Dept Assistant Professor
- Computers and Biology: Like Oil & Water?, Dr. Michael Sierk, Assistant Professor
(Bioinformatics)
- IT Positions - What is Being Off-shored and What Skills are Still Here,
by Dane Swartz of Breakaway Technologies
- Computing Day 2006 was presented by the
Computing & Information Science Department
at Saint Vincent College.
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During 2002 - 2006, Computing Day was organized in part as an outreach program in conjunction with
a scholarship program supported by the National Science Foundation's
Computer Science,
Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships program under grant DUE-0122934.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material
are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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