Highlights 

63% of all colleges with IT programs registered for this year’s IT Futures Summit.  60 IT faculty who were confirmed as registered attended the event! The event took place at the Mercer Island Community and Event Center on May 16^th/17^th.   The 1.5 day experience featured a number of presentations from IT Faculty Professional Development Scholarship Recipients, as well as talking tech with IT professionals.  Networking with colleagues, and, feedback on the CoEs proposed 2019-2020 workplan.  And, the Center Director updated the attendees on the BAS in Robotics/AI and Data Science.  The courses and degree specifics are available to all IT programs across the state for the first year of the IR4 project.  The Center mixed up the game round with an IT Shark Tank contest for the three groups.

Meet our 2019 IT Shark Tank Champions (right to left)

• Aleksandar Petrovic, Seattle Cancer Care, (CoE for ICT Advisory Board Member)
• Rick Dubois, Computer Science & Information Systems, Spokane Falls Community College
• Sandra Farley, Computer Information Systems, Olympic College
• Debbie Wolf, Computer Science, Columbia Basin College
• Carl Freeberg, Information Systems, IBIT, Bellevue College
• Sean Robinson, Pioneer Square Labs (CoE for ICT Advisory Board Member)
• Tanya Knight, Information Technology & Systems Administration, Peninsula College, (not pictured)
• Michael Panitz, Software Programming, Cascadia College, (not pictured)

The following are available to all WA State IT Program CTC Faculty from the Summit:

• Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education, Tina Ostrander, Programming faculty, Green River College
• The Foundations of Data Science: Inferential Thinking, Computational Thinking, and Real World Relevance, Meredith Stanislava, Seattle Colleges
•  IBM Blockchain Technology, Tanya Knight, Peninsula College (Presentation coming soon!)