Work Session – Ohio Learning Standards for Technology (K-12)
The Greater Cleveland Partnership is convening a workgroup of industry professionals to review and provide feedback to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce on the revision of their K-12 Technology Standards. These standards haven’t been updated since 2017 and need input from Northeast Ohio employers to ensure that students are graduating ready with future proof technology skills.
Please join us on Thursday, May 30, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 at GCP for a work session to develop a set of recommendations on how the Technology Standards can be modified to create the next generation of a technology literate workforce. The results of the work session will be compiled and submitted as part of the ODEW’s public comment survey.
Join us at the Greater Cleveland Partnership building for a casual networking event. We’ll share info about our Tech Talent Programs and provide an opportunity for everyone to network and enjoy some food and beverages.
Passport to IT Careers is Northeast Ohio’s premiere youth IT talent event and a signature program of a regional portfolio of offerings available to local high schools.
The program, celebrating its 10th anniversary in October 2023, is a half-day career expo where over 700 high school students explore educational options, job opportunities, in their hometown to determine what it could mean for them to launch an IT career in Northeast Ohio.
Discover IT is a new activity for students to demonstrate their understanding of Information Technology roles and functional areas, the requirements for success in IT careers, and the education they will need to pursuit a career in IT.
Discover IT is a new activity for students to demonstrate their understanding of Information Technology roles and functional areas, the requirements for success in IT careers, and the education they will need to pursuit a career in IT. Students will work individually or in teams to create a unique representation of their understanding of the Discover IT knowledge assets website. The activity is designed for all levels of high school students with or without experience in IT/tech programs. Teachers/educators will be provided with a variety of strategies to facilitate the activity based on their student’s familiarity with IT careers. Also, any teacher/educator can facilitate Discover IT, no IT knowledge is required. Students completing the Discover IT will have the opportunity to submit their completed activity to win their class prizes.
Discover IT is a new activity for students to demonstrate their understanding of Information Technology roles and functional areas, the requirements for success in IT careers, and the education they will need to pursuit a career in IT.
Discover IT is a new activity for students to demonstrate their understanding of Information Technology roles and functional areas, the requirements for success in IT careers, and the education they will need to pursuit a career in IT. Students will work individually or in teams to create a unique representation of their understanding of the Discover IT knowledge assets website. The activity is designed for all levels of high school students with or without experience in IT/tech programs. Teachers/educators will be provided with a variety of strategies to facilitate the activity based on their student’s familiarity with IT careers. Also, any teacher/educator can facilitate Discover IT, no IT knowledge is required. Students completing the Discover IT will have the opportunity to submit their completed activity to win their class prizes.
This IT Career Conversation features information about how an IT Project Manager plays a crucial role in planning, executing, and overseeing information technology projects within an organization. Their primary responsibility is to ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet the specified requirements. They play a multifaceted role, requiring a combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, and effective communication to successfully deliver IT projects.
Data is in Progressive’s DNA. This IT Career Conversation features a team from Progressive’s Data Solutions Department and explores how data is at the center of their customer experience strategy. The team from Progressive will include IT professionals that have experience as Data/Business Intelligence Analysts.
This career conversation will feature information about how to understand business problems and opportunities and recommend solutions that enable an organization to achieve its goals by implementing an Oracle Cloud Module that focuses on accounts payable in Finance. Maanasa Humchad, an Oracle Applications Analyst will discuss supply chain management and the ways she implements Oracle Cloud at Sherwin Williams in IT Finance.
Democracy, by definition, is very participatory. Data Analysis can help. Join us for a career conversation focused on how large data sets can be used to foster civic engagement and positive change.
Blockchain technology is the foundational technology behind cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Join us for an IT Career Conversation focused on blockchain technology with Joe Ketcham, Senior Software Developer from the Federal Reserve Back of Cleveland to learn more about this dynamic and growing field of technology.
Join us at the Greater Cleveland Partnership building for a casual networking event. We’ll share info about our Tech Talent Programs and provide an opportunity for everyone to network and enjoy some food and beverages.
IT support is as essential to a small company as it is to large corporations. In this IT Career Conversation, you’ll meet with a local IT support company called NetworkinGuy’s, a small business IT support outsourcing company which has been in business for 20 years.
This IT Career Conversation is focused on augmented and virtual reality with the creator of Spherio, a customizable AR/VR creation app. The conversation explores AR/VR, the possibilities to become an AR/VR creator today, and the jobs/career opportunities associated with AR/VR in the future.
This IT Career Conversation features an engaging and thought-provoking conversation with Jeff Arko, from Sherwin-William’s Digital Innovation Accelerator. The conversation explores the dynamic landscape of digital innovation and its impact on businesses.
The GCP Tech Talent Program team would like to thank all of the schools that participated in our Cyber Combo Program! Our Cybersecurity Career Conversation went very well, and we had 86 teams from 10 schools participate in the Capture the Flag Competition.
Students were able to engage with Cybersecurity experts from companies like KeyBank, Sherwin Williams, and ASGMI. Students who participated in the Capture the Flag competition had the opportunity to compete with other schools and catch as many flags as they can on a website with many different challenges.
Looking for a hands-on Challenge to introduce cyber? Join us virtually for Capture the Flag! Use your own computer and tools! Teams of up to 4 students will attack systems and solve cybersecurity, networking and programming challenges! Schools can enter multiple teams, no maximum on total teams participating. Teams will have a total of 2 hours to capture as many flags as they can.
Note – Once you team starts the clock they cannot pause, so the commitment must be a consecutive 2-hour time frame over the course of the competition dates.
Teams will be graded on score and time (time will be looked at should there be a tie).
To enroll in Capture the Flag, please contact Joy Childress (jchildress@greatercle.com)
Enrollment closes on Friday, October 20, 2023.
This IT Career Conversation features panelists Yasmin Abdul-Khaliq, Tim Thompson, and Melissa Jolly sharing their knowledge and experiences in Cybersecurity.
A one-day intensive program where students rotate through a series of interactive experiences including speed networking with IT professionals from a wide array of companies, researching and interviewing college and university reps to learn about regional educational options, and exploring NEO/local employment opportunities. Passport to IT Careers happens as part of the GCP’s All In for Tech Day and will be held at the Renaissance Downtown Cleveland.
Join David Brown (Co-founder of NexGen Interactive and Founder of the Minority Tech Alliance) in an engaging session as he dives into the world of Electric Vehicles. This session will provide valuable information about IT careers in the rapidly growing electric vehicle sector.
Discover the journey of women in IT during this IT Career Conversation. Our panelists Aerin Kerbs, Jennifer Zacharia, Gwen Davis, and DeAngela Townsend-Brooks will share their journeys and insights about the Information Technology industry. Join our session to gain valuable information to fuel your own success.
To kick off the 2023-24 school year we invite secondary teachers, educators, counselors, and administrators to join us at Market Garden Brewery for a casual networking event. This is an opportunity for everyone to network and enjoy some food and beverages. This event is free and open to all educators interested in engaging their students in IT/Tech related career exploration.
Headlines in 2019 declared Cleveland to be one of the “worst connected US cities” for access to high-speed broadband. Digital C, a local non-profit fixed wireless Internet provider is working to build networks in unserved and underserved neighborhoods in Cleveland. In this IT Career Conversation, you’ll meet Digital C’s Lead Network Technician discussing networking solutions they are using to reduce Cleveland’s digital divide.
It’s estimated that we take around 93 million selfies each year and that 2/3rds of them are taken on smartphones. That’s a lot of data moving from smartphones, through cellular networks, to data centers worldwide. In this IT Career Conversation, you’ll meet a team from Verizon who design the networks and engineer the data centers that move and store all those selfies.
Will advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) make knowledge workers obsolete? In this IT Career Conversation, members of Hyland Software’s Innovation Team (who started their careers as software developers) discuss how AI is changing the IT world. They also discuss some of the practicalities of using AI tools like GPT-3 and DALL-E.
Web Developers Anyone can build a website, right? Well, that might be true, but to do it right, you need a lot of behind-the-scenes people working to make sure the site runs smoothly. In this IT Career Conversation, you’ll meet a full-stack developer and a Quality Assurance engineer that are graduates from Urban City Codes, a community-based tech training company that is working with under-represented, under-resourced individuals to teach them how to be competitive in our tech-driven economy. These graduates from Urban City Codes will explain how they design websites and keep them humming long, error free.
Virtual Reality game developers share their experience of developing and releasing their award-winning VR Game Straylight in early 2023.
The shift to remote work has created new challenges for IT professionals providing help desk and technical supports to employees that now work at home. Learn how the Technical Support Team from FIT Technologies employs critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to support a growing remote workforce.
CyberSecurity Career Conversation featuring Austin Schweikert, Student Moderator from Baldwin Wallace University, Grace Hannaman, Manager, Incident Response from Eaton, Tracey Touma, Senior Cybersecurity Specialist from Cleveland Clinic, and Nathan Walker, Enterprise Security Analyst from Avient
IT Career Conversations V with Essense Doucet Lead Information Technology Program Manager, KeyBank, Bill Cook, Senior Director, IT Operations & Service Management, General Electric, and Nadia Heard, IT Project Manager, Eaton.
IT Career Conversations IV featuring with Katie Starr, Information Assurance Analyst, Case Western Reserve University; Jennifer Zacharias, Information Security Senior Manager, KeyBank; and Latrecia Hunter, IT Security Project Manager Lead, Progressive Insurance
IT Career Conversations III featuring with Roleen Crane, Manager, Site IT Support, Eaton Corporation and Anusha Kandel, IT Global Support services, The Sherwin Williams Company.
IT Career Conversations II featuring Grady Burrows, Executive Director, HIT in the CLE; Alicia Stone, Senior Vice president, KeyBank; and William Fudge, VP Software Engineering, OEConnections
