First Annual TechUP Competition

For release:  May 13, 2016

This April, the Association of Management Information Systems (AMIS) and the Department of Business Information and Technology (BIT) hosted the first annual TechUP competition for students. Participants were required to learn a new technology. Then, they presented their findings to local IT professionals.

All participants received a Certificate of Achievement and were treated to lunch with IT professionals and BIT faculty. The three winners out of the eighteen participants each received a $100 Visa gift card. The winners were Michael Slauson, who presented on Desktop and Server virtualization; Venkatesh Varma Mandapti, who presented on Programming in R; and Herve Aniglo, who presented on Creating Music with Python.

The winners are pictured below receiving their awards from Dr. Margaret Schultz, instructor of BIT and faculty advisor of the University's student AMIS chapter.

Michael Slauson

Venkatesh Varma Mandapti

Herve Aniglo