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Collin College May 1, 2010: Number 582 Tech head: Cali Lewis shares her passion Online technology host speaks at College Links TechKnowFire. [Click Here for Full Story] www.collin.edu CougarWeb View Credit Class Schedule View Continuing Education Schedule Admission & Registration Financial Aid 'Forces' showcases student creativity Texas Poet Laureate shares in experience at release party. [Click Here for Full Story] Pair named Coca-Cola scholars As part of the honor, students receive $1,000 scholarships. In This Issue... [Click Here for Full Story] Tech head: Cali Lewis shares her passion 'Forces' showcases student creativity Pair named Coca-Cola scholars Newest podcasts go to the movies Environmental science class takes trip to Sprouts Newest podcasts go to the movies Registration continues Cougarcast sits down with two recent visitors to Collin College -- Max Howard College News and Brent Fidler. Also, check out Quick Facts an episode with GeekBrief.tv host Cali Cougar Sports Corner Lewis. Cougar Links -- Twitter Edition! [Click Here for Full Story] Campus Dates SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE Environmental science class takes trip to Sprouts Enter your email address in Students get lesson on eating the box below to receive an organic, locally. email each time we post a [Click Here for Full Story] new issue of Cougar News or use this feature to opt out of your free subscription: Email Address: Registration continues Maymester classes start May 17. Summer I and III, http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/index000437306.cfm[4/13/12 4:09:18 PM] Collin College Add Remove June 7. Send as HTML [Click Here for Full Story] College News Putting pride into the About Cougar News college. [Click Here for Full Story] A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin College. Published semi-monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.599.3142. 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[Click Here for Full Story] Published by Collin County Community College District Collin College TELL A FRIEND Created with eNewsBuilder http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/index000437306.cfm[4/13/12 4:09:18 PM] Tech head: Cali Lewis shares her passion HOME Tech head: Cali Lewis shares her May 1, 2010: Number 582 passion College Links It is not the easiest gig in the world, but Cali Lewis certainly www.collin.edu enjoys her job. CougarWeb Every week, Lewis stands in View Credit Class Schedule front of a camera and talks about View Continuing Education Schedule what she loves the most: Admission & Registration Technology. This enthusiasm is Financial Aid projected over the Internet at GeekBrief.tv, a three- to five- minute online show, which showcases the future of technology, robotics, gadgets and more. “It’s what excites me, and gets me out of the bed in the Cali Lewis morning,” Lewis said of technology. Lewis was the keynote speaker at TechKnowFire, an annual technology conference hosted by Collin College’s Convergence Technology program as a means for students, educators, technology professionals and business owners to learn more about the progressive world of convergence technology. In This Issue... Tech head: Cali Lewis shares her Lewis, along with partner Neal Campbell, started passion GeekBrief.tv in 2005 right as podcasting and video casting 'Forces' showcases student creativity began to get popular in the mainstream. The next year, they quit their day jobs and took GeekBrief.tv full time. Pair named Coca-Cola scholars Lewis first memory of her fascination with technology came Newest podcasts go to the movies when she was eight watching her mother stab away at a Environmental science class takes word processor. Her father owned a Nintendo, which she trip to Sprouts would wake up at 6 a.m. and play at a low volume as not Registration continues to disturb anyone. College News In its original denotation, “geek” is defined as “a carnival Quick Facts performer who performs sensational, morbid or disgusting Cougar Sports Corner acts as biting off the head of a live chicken.” Cougar Links -- Twitter Edition! Campus Dates If this is what you’re into, you will be disappointed in GeekBrief.tv. If you’re into iPhones, robotics or scientists SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE finding new ways to do things, then you’re in luck. Aside from the sideshow definintion of a “geek” even the Enter your email address in 1980s, pocket protector-wearing, bespectled and wimpy the box below to receive an idea of a “geek” is passé. email each time we post a new issue of Cougar News or “Geek no longer has a negative connotation,” Lewis said in use this feature to opt out of reference to Screech Powers or chickens with no heads. your free subscription: While guesting on a morning talk show, Lewis said a producer approached her stating the people she was Email Address: http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/e_article001738929.cfm?x=bgd8dgF,bfMhCWRk,w[4/13/12 4:09:24 PM] Tech head: Cali Lewis shares her passion introducing the world to were “really cool, because we need geeks these days.” Meaning, the modern world’s reliance on technology to communicate, bank, shop, Add Remove entertain themselves or date is overwhelming. Send as HTML “That was a life changing moment for me. He was referring to this instance to technology,” Lewis said of the incident. Lewis, most of all, loves peeking into the future of what About Cougar News researchers are developing, many of which will eventually make their way into the offices and households of much of A newsletter for the students, faculty the United States. and staff of the Collin College. Published semi-monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.599.3142. Cougar She referenced one inventor, who had created a body News welcomes student and faculty pack (the computer) that an individual could transport with submissions. Next deadline: July 12. All them wherever he or she went. If that person needed to submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the check their e-mail, they could simply stop and have their due date. Photos cannot be returned. desktop or application projected onto a surface (say, a Text should be e-mailed to [email protected] or sent on disk. wall) and with their fingertips cruise the Internet, check an Submit copy that is proofed, edited and e-mail account or do whatever business – all without a saved in Word format. Cougar News screen, mouse, keyboard or notebook. staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, With time, the prototype gets smaller and cheaper. And, contributor; Justin Jones, contributor; with some luck and work, into the everyday lives of others. Heather Darrow, contributor; Nick Young, photography and layout. “He’s doing something that ‘s going to change our lives in some way or another. It’s fantastic to look at and watch,” Lewis said. Technology’s reach is almost incalculable. She showed video of a robot doing metal work – something that we would hire a blacksmith to do over the past 500 years. Scientists had programmed a robot to do it instead. “It is all about having a say in the world. What do you want to do with your life? For me, it’s about people taking advantage of technology without hindrances. My mother calls me trying to set up her printer. My goal is to break down the barriers to let people know they can work with technology,” Lewis said. “No matter what you want to do with your life. If you work with metal, you’ll work with technology. Want to be a doctor? You’ll work with technology. Doctors are building limbs with robotics. Even if you don’t know what you want to accomplish, you can get a degree in IT and take that and start working, go make money. Or go further. Have that as a base, and go to a university and build a career on that. Then start making money and pay off all that debt.” Listen to a CougarCast with Lewis by going here. [PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION] Created with eNewsBuilder http://www.enewsbuilder.net/cccc/e_article001738929.cfm?x=bgd8dgF,bfMhCWRk,w[4/13/12 4:09:24 PM] 'Forces' showcases student creativity HOME 'Forces' showcases student creativity May 1, 2010: Number 582 The din of rhyme, rhythm and words coming from the Spring College Links Creek Campus Conference www.collin.edu Center April 21 was that of CougarWeb poetry and storytelling as the st View Credit Class Schedule 21 edition of Forces was View Continuing Education Schedule released. Admission & Registration Financial Aid As part of the release party, contributors – students, faculty – went on stage to recite their short fiction and poetry in front of a roomful of spectators in addition to the Texas Poet Karla Morton Laureate Karla Morton.