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They came to learn more about high-performance technology--they left with their very own garnet-and-black laptop computers.
The inaugural High-Performance Information Technology Camp at Carolina attracted nearly four applications from high school students in Richland and Lexington counties for each of the camp's 20 openings. The students, taught by faculty and students in the Department of Technology Support and Training Management, got plenty of hands-on application as they assembled laptops from kits.
"The purpose of the High-Performance Information Technology Camp is to get academically gifted high school students interested in technology as a potential major in college, to get them excited about Carolina, and to inform them about an information technology career," said Bob Brookshire, chair of technology support and training management. "The students were motivated, inquisitive, and eager to find out more about information technology."
The camp, held on three consecutive Saturday mornings in February, was sponsored jointly by the Columbia Insurance Technology Consortium (CITC) and technology support and training management in the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management. CITC members BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and T.M. Floyd and Co. funded the February camp. Sponsors plan to offer the camp twice per year in the future.
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High school students make their own laptop computers during the University's High-Performance Information Technology Camp.
