Association of IT Professionals National Collegiate Conference 2015 in Omaha, NE

Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) made an impact at the Association of IT Professionals (AITP) National Collegiate Conference (NCC) this year March 26-29^th in Omaha, NE.  The AITP student chapter and our Southern Polytechnic Information Security Assurance (SPISA) Competition Team sent 8 students to compete in 8 of the 16 competitions at the national level.  The students who attended the NCC are Justin Bollen, Alex Durden, Scott Hurn, Brandon King, Michael DeMarco, Felipe Spinolo, Austin Wagoner and Morgan Willis. All of the SPSU students competed in at least 2 competitions each.   

The competitions the students participated in were the Code-A-Thon, Database Design, Enterprise Systems, Java Developer, Microsoft Office Solutions, Network Design, PC Troubleshooting, Security and the Web Design Project.   

SPSU did very well in all the competitions, bringing home Honorable Mentions in Code-A-Thon (Team: Brandon King and Felipe Spinolo-out of 23 teams), PC Troubleshooting (Alex Durden-out of 153 teams) and Security (Alex Durden-out of 70 teams).  The Web Design Project Team was asked to present their submission even though they did not place in the top 10 finalists.  Scott Hurn presented the project which is the only project that requires early submission.  The other students that participated in the Web Design Project that started in early September 2014 are Jennifer Moore, Yada Ratana-Opath, Viral Patel, and Ditsakarn Punyapab. 

All of the students took the opportunity to speak with (and some were granted on the spot job interviews!) with Union Pacific, Google, State Farm, and The FBI. 

Our students continue to represent us well!  I am very proud of how well they performed both in the competitions and at the conference.  Congratulations to all the students and next year we will bring it again in Chicago!

(left to right) Brandon King, Dawn Tatum, Felipe Spinolo, Alex Durden

(left to right) Scott Hurn, Michael DeMarco, Justin Bollen, Brandon King, Dawn Tatum, Felipe Spinolo, Alex Durden, Morgan Willis, Austin Wagoner