THE PROGRAMS:
WHO?
Founding members P&G, Atos Origin, and the UC College of Business developed pilot programming and enlisted participation over the first three years from other leading local organizations, including Abilities First, AM Kinney, Ascendum, Chiquita, CincyTechUSA, Cincinnati Bell, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cintas, CIO Roundtable of Cincinnati, Citigroup, The Citizens' Committee on Youth, Comair, Convergys, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, EW Scripps, Fidelity Investments, Fifth Third Bank, GE Aviation, General Cable, Givaudan, Great American Insurance, Kroger, Lexis Nexis, Luxottica, Macy's, Mercy Health Partners, Microsoft, NCR, Redwood Rehab, SAP America, Schneider Electric, Scripps Howard Foundation, Stepping Stones Center, ShareThis.com, Tata Consultancy Services, Tier1 Performance Solutions, Toyota North America, Vora Technology Park, Weston Solutions. And WonderGroup. In addition, this program was financially assisted by the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Fund, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee.
The
ultimate goal – to enlist and engage every single member
of the Cincinnati USA Regional
Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
A diverse group of local college-prep high schools have been engaged, with the list through summer 2008 viewable on this page.
The ultimate goal – to enlist and engage all 57 high schools in the Ohio River Valley, plus every charter school and every interested high-school-level student who is home-schooled in the region.
The Information Systems Department in the College of Business of the University of Cincinnati hosted proof-of-concept pilots in 2006 with two one-week IT Careers Camps for just-graduated 10th graders. In 2007 they expanded to four one-week sessions and in 2008 hosted five sessions in July and August. 2008 also marked the year INTERalliance expanded to Miami University and Northern Kentucky University, with two one-week sessions hosted by the Miami College of Engineering and one session at the College of Informatics at NKU. Altogether, the summer of 2008 offered eight one-week sessions of 20 students each, touching the lives of 160 of our best and brightest young IT talent.
Xavier has signed on for 2009, and the ultimate goal – to enlist and engage all 14 local colleges and universities that offer information-management and information technology programs, including Wright State, University of Dayton, Cincinnati State, Tomas Moore, Gateway Community College, Sinclair Community College, College at Mt St Joe, Raymond Walters College, DeVry, and ITT.
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