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Designing Summer Programs to Increase Enrollment and Engagement

Karen Ahern

Lawrence Rodis

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Computing and Information Technologies

College of Southern Nevada

karen.ahern@csn.edu

Lawrence.rodis@csn.edu

Funded by NSF Advanced Technician Education Grant # 2055781

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SUMMER PROGRAMS AGENDA

  • Purpose
  • Target Audience
  • Agenda
  • Projects
  • Industry Participation
  • Expenses
  • Evaluation
  • Improvements

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PURPOSE: TO INCREASE RETENTION AND COMPLETION

    • Increase female participation in IT programs to 25%

Increase

    • Connect students with local employers

Connect

    • Get students certified in AWS Cloud Practitioner

Certification

www.csn.edu/cloudcomputing

The project is increasing the IT skilled workforce in Nevada by training students in the latest Cloud technologies from AWS and Microsoft Azure to meet local employer demand for skilled technicians.

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There is now a Cloud Systems Administration AAS

and Certification of Achievement -30 credits

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TARGET AUDIENCE FOR CLOUD COMPUTING BOOTCAMP

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Current CIT students with at least one introductory networking class completed:

  • 39 initially interested
    • 25 qualified to attend

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June 19-23rd 2023

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TECH EMPLOYMENT OVERVIEW IN LAS VEGAS�

  • In Las Vegas metro area 216 jobs were posted requiring or preferring cloud skills on indeed.com

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CLOUD COMPUTING LABS AND GAMES

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https://youtu.be/RgyG6UUEtXM

CloudQuest Game Video

Students completed AWS “quests” with embedded labs and quiz games to learn AWS Cloud Practitioner

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AWS ACADEMY LABS

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GAMES – BIRD BALL

  • DIVIDE CLASS INTO TWO TEAMS
  • TEAM THAT SCORED THE MOST WON A SMALL PRIZE

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INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION

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AWS JAM event

Friday students tested their AWS skills with real-world scenarios direct from AWS

Cloud Computing Bootcamp June 19th-23rd @ College of Southern Nevada North Las Vegas campus

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EXPENSES

Item

Cost

Food

$2200 for 30 people

T-shirts and prizes

$600 for 30 people

Faculty

$1500

Space and rooms –

25-person computer room

Lobby of the computing building

free

AWS test vouchers - 20

$1000

Cloud Computing Expenses

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EVALUATION RESULTS – CLOUD CAMP

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EVALUATION RESULTS CLOUD CAMP

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EVALUATION RESULTS

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IMPROVEMENTS FOR NEXT TIME

Improvements for Cloud Computing Summer Bootcamp

1. Get students more time with IT recruiters – per their request in the survey

2. Push harder to get industry partners from advisory committee to attend the AWS JAM event

3. Less lecture-style content delivery and more lab projects & group case studies

4. Create hard deadline for students to take the AWS exam within 4 weeks of camp conclusion

5. Allow more time for students to take the evaluation survey and review survey questions with them

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AWS Cloud Bootcamp 2023

June 19th-23rd @ College of Southern Nevada North Las Vegas campus

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QUESTIONS / CONTACT INFORMATION

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Questions about the Cloud Computing boot camp email :

karen.ahern@csn.edu

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