IDD Delivers Team-Based Project Portal for National Science Foundation Grant
IDD Delivers Team-Based Project Portal for National Science Foundation Grant
Blacksburg, Virginia, October 14, 2009
Earlier this year,
IDD launched the Appalachian Information Technology Extension Services (AITES) Web portal. The portal provides community-based teams with wiki-style team sites, collaborative online chat tools, a searchable research library, and an integrated mini-grant submission process. The portal also provides the project’s administrative team and external evaluators with online editors and reports to manage and evaluate the data.
About AITES
The AITES project is funded by Virginia Tech, with a $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF.) AITES is a comprehensive, research-based Extension program of training and consulting services. Its goal is to promote underserved young women's interest in jobs requiring information technology
(IT) skills. The AITES project led by Peggy S. Meszaros, director of the Center for Technology Impacts on Children, Youth and Families, and Elizabeth Creamer, professor in the university’s School of Education. The overarching goal of the project is to develop community capacity through a sustainable program of change concentrating on educating the teachers, school counselors, and parents who are the supporters or “stokers” surrounding the girls. The goal is grounded in part in the mini-grant funded outreach efforts of middle and high school counselors as well as middle and high school teachers, Family and Consumer Science, and 4H Cooperative Extension agents who comprise the AITES Community Cohort Teams (CCT). Through CCT, key community stakeholders and stokers are informed about the availability of IT jobs in their community, the diversity of jobs that require IT skills, and the importance not only of making girls aware of these opportunities but also of supporting their interests and futures in the IT field. For more information on AITES, please visit
http://www.aites5.org.
About IDD
IDD, a woman-owned and operated small business, founded in 1991, is an award-winning information technology company with proven expertise in the design, development, and delivery of custom software solutions. As a full-service information technology firm,
IDD specializes in web development, content management systems, performance recognition systems, learning management systems, education & training applications, graphic design, animations, and 3D-renderings. Additional information about
IDD is available on our Web site at
www.iddnet.com.
Contact
Mary Miller, President
IDD, Inc.
540-953-2627