Compuware Community Clicks, 8/13/2012 (Cameron Hughes, Austin Little, Charles McIntosh) )

BDPA Detroit Team Finishes in Top 10 in National Competition. It wasn’t easy, but they did it — with skill, hard work and determination. The BDPA Detroit team built an application from scratch, finishing in the top 10 in the National High School Computer Competition, Aug. 2-4 in Baltimore. Team members Austin Little, Charles McIntosh Jr. and Cameron Hughes were upbeat about the experience. Little, 17, of the University High School Academy in Southfield, was a second time participant in the competition. While he lamented spending lots of time fixing things as they built the application, he was positive about competing: “We learned a lot, and it will benefit us in the future,” he said.

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Compuware Community Clicks, 8/2/2012 (Ron Bell, Cameron Hughes, Austin Little, Charles McIntosh II)

Detroit Computer Wizards Go for the Gold in National Competition. Develop another award-winning application. That’s what the team of three students from the BDPA Detroit chapter plan to do starting today at the National High School Computer Competition in Baltimore, MD. Twelfth graders Austin Little and Cameron Hughes, joined by eleventh grader Charles McIntosh II, will vie for the gold with 18 other teams from around the country.

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Compuware Community Clicks, 4/18/2011 (Ron Bell, Anquanette Clegg)

How Compuware Helps Black Data Processing Associates Help Young Programmers. For more than 20 years, Compuware has been a major supporter of Black Data Processing Associates, and especially the organization’s National High School Computer Competition. Founded in 1975, BDPA is a national non-profit organization of minority professionals working in the computer science and information technology fields.

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Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology, Dec 2007/Jan 2008 (Lori Walker)

IT Giant Compuware Knows the Value of Human Capital. Lori Walker, director of diversity, emphasizes the importance of maintaining an inclusive environment. “We have a mandatory employee inclusion training program,” she says. “We have built relationships with professional, community and minority organizations throughout the world to enhance our search for the best talent in the industry...

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Compuware Press Room, 8/15/2005 (Wayne Hicks, Peter Karmanos)

Compuware Sponsors Black Data Processing Associates’ National Conference in Detroit. Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced that it is a Platinum sponsor of the 27th Annual National Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) Conference. This prestigious event will be held August 17-20 at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. The conference will attract more than 800 IT professionals, CIOs and entrepreneurs, as well as individuals wishing to engage in an IT career.

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CSRwire, 7/28/2003 (Allison Clark, Juan Gilbert, Milt Haynes, Wayne Hicks)

BDPA Plans Gala Silver Anniversary Conference. BDPA is bringing its 2003 national conference back to Philadelphia this year. The conference will run from August 13-17. "Philly is the birthplace of BDPA," says Milt Haynes, BDPA's national president. Haynes is an IT project manager at Lucent Technologies (Naperville, IL). IT pros Earl Pace and the late David Wimberly started BDPA in Philadelphia almost thirty years ago. This will be the organization's twenty-fifth national conference. "We expect the conference to have a big impact this year," Haynes says. He estimates that attendance may top last year's figure of 2,000 by 25 percent.

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SlideShare, 9/5/2000 (Stephen Clayton, Quinton Green, Ian Kerman, Veronica Taylor)

Compuware and BDPA Detroit: Success Story in 2000. This is an overview of the success experienced by Compuware with BDPA Detroit chapter's youth education program in 2000. The highlight of the year was a gold medal victory at the 2000 national BDPA high school computer competition (HSCC) championships.

Compuware and BDPA Detroit: Success Story in 2000

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