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2010 IT Careers Camps
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For the fifth straight year, the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati conducted multiple one-week sessions of its IT Careers Camp program in July for twenty local high school sophomores each week. One hundred twenty high school sophomores from thirty-nine Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky high schools were selected to participate in this intense, behind-the-scenes, week-long problem-solving experience hosted by the University of Cincinnati’s College of Business, Miami University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, or Northern Kentucky University’s College of Informatics.
Once again the business community rallied to support these young people. Local corporate sponsors this year included A.M. Kinney, Atos Origin, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cintas, Citi, Comair, Fifth Third, GE, Great American Insurance, L&T Infotech, Lexis Nexis, Kroger, Messer Construction, Microsoft, P&G, PMI, Pomeroy IT Solutions, SAP America, Sogeti, TiER1 Performance Solutions, Toyota, and Trivantis.
In each jam-packed, week-long session, four corporate-sponsored teams competed in daily “problem-solving Olympics” with the students proposing IT solutions for real-world business challenges. This year’s capstone “Technology Optimized Business Enterprise” (“TOBE”) Competition required each team to come up with a business plan for a new business enterprise that employs people with disabilities.
The “TOBE” Competition was designed in concert with United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cincinnati, Abilities First in Middletown, OH, and Redwood in Ft. Mitchell, KY. Each team’s business plan was presented to a panel of “celebrity judges” from the service agencies and corporate sponsors, and included such creative new business ideas as a manufacturer of foreign language speaking animal dolls, a personalized cupcake bakery, and a specially equipped amusement park for people with disabilities, staffed by people with disabilities.
This year, thirty-nine local high schools were represented at the IT Careers Camps from all over the region, including Anderson, Calvary Christian School, Centerville, Cincinnati Country Day, Clark Montessori, Elder, Hamilton, Indian Hill, Lakota East, Lakota West, La Salle, Little Miami, Loveland, Madeira, McAuley, McNicholas, Milford, Archbishop Moeller, Mother of Mercy, Mount Notre Dame, Oak Hills, Purcell Marian, Randall K. Cooper, Ryle, Seton, St. Ursula Academy, St. Xavier, Summit Country Day, Sycamore, Taft IT, Talawanda, Turpin, Ursuline Academy, Villa Madonna Academy, Walnut Hills, Western Hills University, William Mason, Woodward, and Wyoming High School.
Kenneth Li, 11th grader at Loveland High School, said the IT Careers Camp was very timely for him. “This camp was just what I needed to make an informed decision.” Li says he is considering IT as a career as a result of the INTERalliance experience. “Overall, this camp has made me rethink my future and now I believe an area in IT might be a great possibility for me.”
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