Hundreds of Information Technology Academy (ITA) community members attended the 18th Annual Holiday Luncheon on Saturday, December 10, 2016, where students showcased their work and CIO Bruce Maas gave the keynote address. ITA includes the ITA Madison program …
Year: 2016
Office of Cybersecurity Visits ITA Madison
The UW-Madison’s Office of Cybersecurity staff visited the Information Technology Academy (ITA) Madison session on Saturday, November 19 in a four-part educational workshop series on cybersecurity. Chief Information Security Officer Robert Turner introduced the series before handing it over …
ITA-TTI Champions Native November on Campus
In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Information Technology Academy’s Tribal Technology Institute’s (ITA-TTI) Program Manager, Christopher Kilgour, helped plan UW-Madison’s Native November events. Highlights of the month include Academic and Career Advising for Native Communities …
ITA & Partners Host Sesame Street Workshop
This summer, the Information Technology Academy (ITA) had the fortune to host the Sesame Street Workshop, a nationally renowned workshop designed to help “teach to empower” students through the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. ITA’s …
ITA’s First Residential Experience a Success
Nearly forty-five 60-hour student internships on campus and at community organizations. Three orientations for 51 new students. Six two-week day sessions for 98 students across three locations in Wisconsin. One two-week residential session for 40 …
ITA Madison Juniors Take on Internships and Scratch
We’re in the first summer session’s final week of the Information Technology Academy summer internship program. For the past two weeks, rising ITA Madison juniors have spent mornings at internships on UW-Madison’s campus and the afternoons doing …
ITA Honors Class of 2016
On Saturday, June 4, twenty-six Madison high school students were honored for completing UW-Madison’s Information Technology Academy (ITA), an intensive technology training and college preparatory program. All twenty-six students in this year’s graduating class are planning …
Gabriel Saiz Named Presidential Scholar
The Department of Education has named Gabriel Saiz, an ITA Madison student, a U.S. Presidential Scholar. He will travel to Washington, D.C. to receive a medallion at a ceremony sponsored by the White House in …
ITA-TTI 2016 Spring Conference: A Success
Twenty-eight students from the Information Technology Academy’s Tribal Technology Institute (ITA-TTI) Oneida and Lac du Flambeau programs recently spent four days in Madison for the ITA-TTI 2016 Spring Leadership Conference. After months of planning by ITA-TTI Program Manager Christopher Kilgour, …
ITA Student Named Semifinalist for Presidential Scholars Award
Gabriel Saiz, a senior at West High School in Madison and student in Information Technology Academy’s Madison program, has been named one of the 12 Wisconsin semifinalists for the 2016 Presidential Scholars award. One female …