Thirty-four students from the Information Technology Academy’s Tribal Technology Institute (ITA-TTI) Oneida and Lac du Flambeau programs recently spent three days in Madison for the ITA-TTI 2017 Spring Leadership Conference. After months of planning, the conference was held from March 31 to April 2. The Spring Conference is part of an effort to connect tribal students with each other, introduce …
The Information Technology Academy (ITA) is proud to announce that the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) honored four ITA Madison students in the 2017 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC) competition. NCWIT is a non-profit community of nearly 900 universities, companies, non-profits, and government organizations dedicated to increasing girls’ and women’s …
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, …