Year: 2016

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 and the two ITA’s Tribal Technology Institute (ITA-TTI) programs in Oneida and Lac du Flambeau. In addition to the 150 …

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 to Stefan Wahe who led nearly 120 ITA Madison students through best practices for passwords and mobile device security. Wahe …

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 on November 2nd, the “Protecting the Water: The Importance of the Protest at Standing Rock” presentation on November 14th and Indigenous …

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 Technology Services Manager AJ Daughtry Krill, E-line Media’s Research and Program Manager Allison Mishkin, and Madison Public Library’s Teen Services Librarian Jesse …

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 rising seniors. These activities were all part of a busy, student-centered summer for pre-college outreach program, the Information Technology Academy …

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 technology coursework, which included learning Scratch, a free programming language used to create interactive stories, games and animations. In this final …

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 to attend higher education institutions this fall, and eight of them will be attending UW–Madison. The graduation celebration was held …

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 June. In addition to excelling in academics, Saiz has established himself as a social justice advocate. A Ponca tribe member, …

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, Academic Instructor Brenda Gonzalez Vazquez, Administrative Assistant Cassandra McNeal, and Student-Employees Bobbi Skenandore, Eddie Ukoeninn, and Besma Aly, the conference …

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 and male will be named finalists for Wisconsin and travel to Washington, D.C. to meet finalists from across the nation …