Tulane University All tech, all week
September 17, 2014 8:45 AM Benton Oliver [email protected]
At a previous Tech Day, students from the Satellite Center, a career-based high school program, watch Tulane students play a game of Super Smash Bros. projected onto a large screen in the Kendall Cram Lecture Hall of the Lavin-Bernick Center. The Satellite Center was one of a number of organizations and vendors with booths distributing information at Tech Day. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)
Fancy yourself a techie? Think you"re up on what"s state-of-the-art? With numerous speakers and presentations by technology vendors and a Super Smash Bros. video game tournament, the upcoming Tulane Tech Week events Sept. 22â“26 are a fun way to stay on the cutting edge.
This year"s Tech Week, an expansion of the annual Tech Day, will take place at both the Lavin- Bernick Center on the uptown campus and at 1440 Canal St. on the downtown health sciences campus from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. daily.
“This year we're experimenting with spreading out the vendor events over the course of the week.” -- Mike Griffith, faculty technology coordinator
“With so many sessions packed into one day [in previous years], attendees could not see everything they wished to see, so this year we"re experimenting with spreading out the vendor events over the
Tulane University | New Orleans | 504-865-5210 | [email protected] Tulane University course of the week. Hopefully everyone will get to see more of the sessions,” says Mike Griffith, faculty technology coordinator and a founding organizer of Tech Week hosted by Tulane Technology Services.
Organizers hope the all-star lineup of innovative tech companies and technology analysts, including Apple, Adobe and Sharestream, and the event"s new, less constrictive format will serve both attendees and presenters by slowing the pace and allowing for more questions.
Keynote speaker Gardner Campbell of Virginia Commonwealth University will talk on the shortcomings of higher education and how technology can remedy these issues.
One presentation kicking off the week on Monday (Sept. 22) is with vendor Millifluidica, which is improving biology and chemistry labs using its “lab on a chip” technology, Griffith says.
Tech Week would not be a true Tulane event without the chance to win some free stuff. One lucky winner at each presentation will get an iPod shuffle, and three Dell laptops and three iPad Minis will be given out during the week.
Tech Week events are free and open to everyone in the Tulane University community.
Benton Oliver is a senior at Tulane University majoring in music, communication and German.
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