Important Community Meeting - Tuesday, Nov. 17th

Parents, Educators, Clergy, Business Owners, Professionals, Community Leaders, Students, and all Concerned Individuals - Would you spend two hours . .

Acknowledging Young High Achievers

Addressing Community Issues

Discussing Relevant Projects

Learning Ways to Improve Your Computer Skills

Meeting Others Who Can Help You Meet Your Personal and Professional Goals

Promoting Your Business or Enhancing Your Career

If your answer is YES to any of the questions above, please
Join us on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM

“We must become the change we want to see.” - Gandhi


YOUR Invitation to an Important Community Event



October 22, 2009

Dear BDPA Members & Friends:

For a while now we have sought ways to rejuvenate our Cleveland Chapter by doing new and exciting things. A while ago, we announced the initiation of a “technology peace corps” type initiative called the BDPA Information Technology Corps (IT Corps) which is intended to address community development by applying our members and students’ computer skills throughout the year on short projects. We have an opportunity to start that process in earnest now.

I first need your participation in a special recognition event to honor our students that participated in this year’s Student Information Technology Education and Scholarship (SITES) program and High School Computer Competition (HSCC). The event will be on November 17th at John Carroll University, at 6:00 P.M.

To attend this event, we additionally invited civic leaders, business persons, and parents to explore two simple questions in a brief panel discussion: What are the pressing issues in our Greater Cleveland communities that impede the growth of this area? Do you foresee a role for computer technology to address these priorities?

The most important contribution we are asking for is candid input on development priorities so that we can get the IT Corps rolling relevantly. Our youth teams will be using this information to shape projects that they will undertake here in Cleveland and later on internationally. For example, next year, the BDPA IT Corps has been invited to Nairobi, Kenya to extend the same format of inquiry and community development in our first international mission.

I would appreciate that you attend and send a confirmation email. The recognition ceremony and panel discussion will take place on the John Carroll University campus, University Heights, Ohio, 44118, in the Dolan Center for Science & Technology, Room A202 & 203, on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at 6:00 P.M. Light refreshments will be served. The program will begin promptly at 6:30 and will last 90 minutes. We would appreciate that you confirm your intentions to attend by sending a confirmation email to rsvp@bdpa-cleveland.org, or calling (216) 773-0700 and leaving a voice-message, or sending a text-message to this same number, at your earliest convenience.

We will have parents and their students there being honored that evening. It would be great for us to show up in force to show we truly appreciate them and their continuing interest in BDPA and our Chapter. Also, this event is our very best opportunity to put our information exchange back on track. I hope I can count on you to be there. Please RSVP.

Sincerely,
Kenneth L. Wilson
President
BDPA - Cleveland Chapter



BDPA is committed to promoting information technology to students, members, communities and businesses. For a span of more than 26 years BDPA has successfully groomed and assisted local youth through its annual High School Computer Competition (HSCC) program. BDPA’s innovative Information Technology (IT) Corps is opening up economic-empowerment opportunities globally and for Cleveland and Northeast, Ohio. Our Classroom-to-Career-to-Boardroom initiatives continue to enrich technology professionals and our area youth.

FOR DIRECTIONS TO THE DOLAN CENTER, CLICK http://www.bdpa.successisyou.org/file20.html.