BDPA Foundation

Saturday, July 26, 2008

SlideShare, 7/26/2008 (John Hoffler)

BDPA-AAUW IT Techs: Partnerships in Education. This presentation was made by BDPA Charlotte member John Hoffler on in July 2008.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

HR World, 7/8/2008 (Milt Haynes, Denise Holland)

2008 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology. The 2008 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology were announced yesterday by the National Black Data Processing Associates, and WorkplaceDiversity.com. Without further ado: Allstate Insurance, Eli Lilly and Company, Health Care Service Corporation, HSBC North America, Merck and Company, Monsanto, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart Stores, WellPoint and Wells Fargo Bank.

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Monday, July 7, 2008

TradingMarkets.com, 7/7/2008 (Milt Haynes, Denise Holland, Brian Hedberg)

National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com Announce Winners of the 2008 Best Companies for Blacks In Technology Award. The National BDPA and WorkplaceDiversity.com, the source for diversity talent, announced Allstate Insurance, Eli Lilly and Company, Health Care Service Corporation, HSBC North America, Merck and Company, Monsanto, State Farm Insurance, Wal-Mart Stores, WellPoint and Wells Fargo Bank as the winners of the 2008 Best Companies for Blacks in Technology Award..

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

HPCwire, 7/2/2008 (Jesse Bemley, Bryan Bemley)

A High Performance Education: Students Explore the Impact of Supercomputing at TeraGrid '08. A record number of high school and college students from around the country participated in advanced computing competitions during the third annual TeraGrid conference, making it the most successful TeraGrid conference yet in encouraging young people to enter careers in high-performance computing, scientific visualization, and grid computing...

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology, June/July 2008 (Denise Holland, Anita Vega)

BDPA Stages Its Thirtieth National Conference in Atlanta. Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) will throw itself an anniversary party at its thirtieth national conference in Atlanta on August 6-9. It’s the fourth conference the organization has held in the Peachtree City; previous events were in 1986, 1996 and 1999.

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