Announcements

• Employment and Collaboration Opportunities in Computer Science and Education    April 21, 2008
  Tuesday April 22nd, 10:00­ 11:00, Ballroom C
  
  Murugan Pal, co-founder & President of CK-12 Foundation, will present employment and collaboration information pertaining to CK12 Flexbook project.
  Using an open-source, web-based model termed the "Flexbook," this presentation will address efforts to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational webtexts that will serve both as source materials for a student's learning and, as well, provide an adaptive environment that scaffolds the learner's journey as he or she masters a standards-based body of knowledge.
  
  Murugan is currently the co-founder & President of CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organization launched in 2006, that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Pal has worked on real-time enterprise technologies, composite applications, service-oriented architecture runtimes, relational databases, object databases, and robotics and manufacturing automation. Pal holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, affiliated to Madurai University in India, a Master's in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, a Master's in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and was a Doctoral Candidate in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University.
  

• Association of Information Technology Professionals Phoenix Chapter    April 15, 2008
  April Technical Meeting
  Who: Citrix
  Where: Enterprise Technology Services, 730 N. 52nd St., Ste. 100, Phoenix, AZ 85008
  When: Wednesday, April 23rd – 11:30am to 1pm
  What: Server Virtualization
  

• Summer Internship     April 9, 2008
  Our team is working on a symantec web project in San Francisco and we are looking for students interested in a summer internship to do some coding for us. More info

• Software Engineer, Entry Level at ASM    March 28, 2008
  ASM is a profitable company in the dynamic semiconductor industry. ASM manufactures capital equipment for the semiconductor industry. ASM is publicly traded on the NASDAQ (ASMI). The US headquarters is in Phoenix Arizona. ASM International is headquartered in The Netherlands. More info

• The Hispanic College Fund scholarship programs    March 17, 2008
  The Hispanic College Fund scholarship programs are currently open. To apply to the scholarship programs please go to http://scholarships.hispanicfund.org/applications/
  
  Eligibility Requirements –
  Students must...
  • be Hispanic
  • maintain a 3.0 Grade Point Average (on a 4.0 scale)
  • be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
  • reside in the U.S. or Puerto Rico
  • be a current or rising undergraduate (some programs accept grad. students) student or a high school senior enrolling at a college or university in the U.S. or Puerto Rico
  • demonstrate financial need
  
  *Some HCF Programs also require that a student be pursuing a certain area of study.
  * Students studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Pharmacy and Nursing are highly encourage to apply
  
  All applications can be found at http://scholarships.hispanicfund.org/applications/
  
  For more information, please contact Auri Duarte, Scholarship Program Manager, at aduarte@hispanicfund.org or 1800-644-4223.

• You can (pre)register on the Web! See ways to register at:
  http://www.asu.edu/register/

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