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Picture Gallery from earlier iFairs

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Presentations about iFair

STEMtech conference, October 31, 2010, Orlando, FL

Presentation: Developing IT and Engineering Careers: iFairs and Other Approaches

Larry Domine (MATC) and Joe Kmoch (WHSoIT)

 

Wisconsin STEM Conference, August 17, 2010

Presentation:  iFair:  IT and Engineering Career Fair with a Twist

Joe Kmoch (WHSoIT)

• Article on iFair (for Conference website)
• Presentation slides
• iFair movie (March 2007)

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Previous iFairs:

Washington HS of IT (Nov 15, 2011, Nov 16, 2010, Nov 17, 2009; Dec 2, 2008, Nov 2007, March, 2007)

2525 N. Sherman Blvd

 

NEW!  Summary of exhibitors, donations and schools attending for the first ten iFairs (through April, 2011)

 

Mission of the event

Provide valuable, informative, educational experiences promoting careers in Information Technology and Engineering focusing primarily on students in grades 7-10

 

Time:  9a.m. - 1pm at Washington HS,  9a.m. - 2p.m. at Harley-Davidson

(restrictions based on school bus availability and room availability)

 

Goals

Provide free bus transportation for about 400-600 students primarily from schools with grades 7-8 and 9-10 to visit business and post-secondary school booths set up in a trade-show like setting, experience robotics, interact with the students and opportunities at WHS of IT, and talk to young professionals in these fields during a panel discussion. The invited students are currently taking a course using either the MPS-sponsored IT curriculum or the Project Lead The Way curriculum at the middle or high-school level. Visiting students will be on campus for approximately 1-1/2 hours.

 

Other visitors will include about 50 WHSoIT students, guidance counselors at middle and high school levels, the WHSoIT Advisory Board, various dignitaries including city, county, state and federal officials and politicians.

 

Working definition of IT

IT includes programming/software engineering/computer science, interactive media including the web, networking systems and information support and services. This definition is based on a IT Career Cluster brochure developed by the US Dept of Education in conjunction with various Business and Industry organizations and the US Dept of Labor. Other broad definitions could also be used.

 

Business and Post Secondary School Booths

• Booths will be set up in a tradeshow-like atmosphere
• The focus of each booth sponsor is to sell the excitement of careers in Information Technology and Engineering
• Each booth will be staffed by young IT and Engineering professionals interacting with students about their careers in these professions at these companies.
• Booth sponsors and other business supporters at various iFairs: Ability Connection, Advanced Wireless, American Family Insurance, Apple, Aurora Health, Badger Meter, British Computer Society, CH2MHILL, Construction Challenge, Dedicated Computing, Destination Imagination (Assoc of Equipment Manuf), Dimension Printers, Direct Supply, Enterprise Systems Group, Federal Bureau of Investifation (FBI), GE HealthCare, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Controls, Kohls, Metavante, Microsoft, Milwaukee Dept of Public Works, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, MPS Learning Technologies, MPS Tech Department, Munger Technical Services, Northwestern Mutual, Paragon Development Systems, Quad-Graphics, QuadTech, Rockwell Automation, Society for Information Management (SIM), Strattec Security Corp, TEKsystems, Time-Warner, United Water, Versifit Technologies, Wells-Fargo Financial, West Bend Mutual, Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare along with Great Lakes Higher Ed Council, Marquette University, MATC Web Design, MATC Visual Communication/Gaming and Simulation, MSOE, Project Lead the Way, UW-Whitewater, Computer Science Teachers Association and WHS Robotics Team (FIRST Robotics)

 

Activities during the visit

• Interact with vendor and post-secondary booths
• WHS Robotics team large (FIRST Robotics) and small robot (Scribbler, Turtle) demonstrations
• Student Project Lead the Way lab demonstrations and IT demonstrations
• Panel Discussion

 

Panel Discussion

• Duration of Panel:  30 minutes (maximum)
• Students from each arrival group (9:30, 10:30, 11:30) will assemble as their last stop on the tour in rooms 481/482
• Five to six young IT or Engineering Professionals
• Asking companies to offer individuals paying attention to diversity (gender and ethnicity)
• After a very brief introduction (including title and responsibilities), each will address one or a couple of the following areas:
• When you started thinking about working in IT
• What subject you focused on in high school
• Where you attended college and what made you successful in completing college
• How long you've worked in this field
• Advice you have for the students interested in this field

 

 

Agenda for the visiting classrooms of students

• Students will be provided with a passport which will describe the agenda, display logos of the companies and institutions involved, and include a sheet of questions for students to answer as they visit the booths.
• All students will visit each of these areas in some order while on campus: Trade Show Booths, Robotics Demonstrations, WHSoIT classroom and lab exhibits and demonstrations
• Students from schools will arrive at either 9:30 or 10:30, be greeted in the cafeteria and receive their Passports and a sharpened pencil, be escorted by a pair of WHSoIT students to their first location on the fourth floor and move at approx 1/2 hour intervals to the other two locations.
• As students leave, if they complete the questions on the passport, they can register for the technology prizes (which include a digital camera and an iPod), be given a bag of goodies provided by the sponsoring companies and escorted to their buses.

 

Budget

This is currently set at $4000

WHSoIT is seeking monetary sponsorship

 

Steering Committee Representatives

Robert Horton (hortonb@uww.edu); University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Lauren Baker (bakerlc@milwaukee.k12.wi.us); MPS Coord of Career and Technical Ed

Freda Bell (fowlkesbell@sbcglobal.net); Washington HS of IT, retired

Larry Domine (dominele@matc.edu); MATC IT Programs

Scott Kempen (kempensp@milwaukee.k12.wi.us); Washington HS of IT

Joe Kmoch (joe@jkmoch.com); JK Associates

Antonio Rodriguez (rodrigax@milwaukee.k12.wi.us); MPS CTE

Brock Sarnstrom (Brock.Sarnstrom@harley-davidson.com); Harley-Davidson

Idella Thomas (thomas.idella@yahoo.com); Harley-Davidson, retired

Dorothy Valentine (DorothyValentine@att.net); Harley-Davidson, retired

 

 

 

 

Documents related to the development of iFair

 

iFair planning documents - overall

iFair planning documents - by task (zip file of following)

booths, publicity, schools.doc, venue, other

 

From April 2010 iFair

flyer

agenda

exhibitor letter and booth registration form

letter to teachers bringing a student group - sample student question list

information for panelists

student passport (from Nov, 2009 iFair)

 

 

Photos from iFair at Washington HS of IT, November 17, 2009:

 

iFair Poster Session at NECC 2008 in San Antonio:

specific wiki pages for WHS iFairs:  March 2007 and November2007