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NTID E-News
 
An Electronic Newsletter for Students, Alumni, and Friends

Vol. 4, No. 1, January 3, 2001

National Technical Institute for the Deaf
A college of Rochester Institute of Technology
 
IN THIS ISSUE:
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NTID Offers NSF-Sponsored "Deaf Initiative
In Information Technology" Workshops
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Two information technology workshops designed for and available only
to deaf and hard-of-hearing people, are being offered at the National
Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT).

The five-day workshops, PC Hardware Maintenance and Repair, offered
February 26-March 2, and Object-Oriented Programming Using Microsoft
Visual Basic 6.0, offered April 30-May 4, are part of the Deaf
Initiative in Information Technology (DIIT), supported by a grant
from the National Science Foundation, and are held in NTID's
state-of-the-art DIIT classrooms. Additional workshops are planned
for 2001 and 2002.

"Having the perspective of other deaf adults while learning new
software and technology was very beneficial," said Patrick Murray,
a product tester at IBM in Austin, Texas, who attended the first
DIIT workshop, Creating Web Sites with FrontPage 2000. "Each
participant shared their experiences from the work world and built
a solid network of people who could support each other in
the future."

Registration is limited to 12 attendees for each workshop, and
will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The cost
of the week-long workshop is $550. For information on the
workshops or to register, contact the program's e-mail address
at diit@rit.edu or visit the Web site at ../../../.


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