JANUARY 2012 ISSUE =============== |
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Greetings!
I trust your new year is off to a great start. I am looking forward to a great year for the Tech Council and there are some exciting new opportunities that I want to share with you. This year is going to be about serious networking! We will be posting our event schedule on our website in the coming days and filling in the details as we get them. I encourage you to go ahead and put those dates on your calendar. Our 11th annual Awards Night in May is going to be proceeded by a half-day B2B conference with the theme to be released in February. You will not want to miss this event. We will be holding another LinkedIn Live event this summer in addition to a number of Wired Wednesday and Tech@Breakfast events. I am also excited to announce that we are launching two new roundtable groups for our members in addition to our CIO roundtable - Tech Lifestyle and IT Directors. If you own a technology lifestyle business or are an IT Director I would like to hear from you. Please contact me directly so I can share the details with you. We also have opportunities for you to sponsor events and even be a presenter. If you are interested in either, please let me know. And lastly, our Future Focus Foundation will be hosting several large STEM events for students this year in addition to numerous smaller activities. A sample includes a regional Jr. FIRST LEGO tournament, a FIRST LEGO Tournament, and Future Focus EXPO. If you would like to volunteer to help with any of our STEM events please let us know. I look forward to working with you this year to make it the best ever for our growing technology community. Sincerely, Jonathan
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GET THE RAW TRUTH ON SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING! Has the wave of Social Media crested or crashed? We're going to ask some hard questions to a panel of local experts. Bring your questions and get in line. Let's find out together what's really working and what's not and how you should really position your marketing strategy. Invited, local panelists include: Josh Quintero of Blair Marketing, Jennifer Bailey of The Social Media Institute, Abe Loper of the Young Professionals of Central Virginia, Phil Hamlett of B&W, and Jason Fowler of the Region 2000 Technology Council. Read More & Register Now!>>> |
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Sweet Briar College is hosting Spring weekend and Summer week-long engineering courses for high school (senior and junior) young women titled 'Explore Engineering' March 2-3, 2012 and July 22-27, 2012. These courses are built around hands-on, team based design projects that emphasize creativity. No engineering experience is needed to attend. Students have fun while working with engineering faculty and students.
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Randolph College's Science Festival and Science Day are coming in March. This is a great event for families, teachers and students in the Lynchburg area to have some fun while exploring issues and topics related to science. Check it out: "The Randolph College Society of Physics Students is proud to bring you the Fourth Annual Randolph College Science Festival, March 22-25, 2012. Begun as a Science Day for kids in 2005, we are joined by science, humanities and arts departments across the campus, and by numerous presenters to bring a weekend of activities for all. All activities are free and open to the public, and are for all ages. Only the Science Day activity on Saturday afternoon requires pre-registration..." Read More >>> |
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The Future Focus Foundation and the Region 2000 Technology Council are excited to announce the third annual season of the Lynchburg Regional Junior FIRST LEGO League beginning in early 2012. This year, we have a limited number of team sponsorships available so make sure to get your request in early. New teams in new locations will be getting priority for sponsored supplies.
Save The Date (Jr. FIRST LEGO Exp0 April 28) The 2012 Region 2000 Jr. FIRST LEGO League Expo is scheduled for April 28th at Timberlake Christian School. The theme for the 2012 Expo will be "Snack Attack". Participants in the 2012 Jr. FIRST LEGO League will take a "hands-on" approach to the topic of food safety by exploring how proper preparation and storage and help us keep healthy. Teams will learn about simple machines as they build a model made of LEGO elements with a motorized moving part, and will create a team Show-Me Poster to represent their Snack Attack findings.
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Google recently praised Liberty University for their success in mobile marketing: "Liberty University, the world's largest Christian college, is being noted by Google for its success in marketing the university's programs to prospective students via their mobile devices. More and more prospective students are utilizing their mobile devices to explore their options to further, or pursue for the first time, their education online. As noted by Google in their Mobile Ads Blog, Liberty's method of online marketing is effectively leveraging this trend, which is, according to Google's own search data, an increasing one..." Read More >>> |
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