BJHS Students Present at Technology Conference

On Saturday, February 16th, twenty-seven BJHS students presented at the 8th annual SIT Conference held at Heartland Community College in Normal. The Students Involved with Technology Conference is an annual conference which is currently hosted by Heartland Community College and ISU for students in grade 3 through 12. So what makes the SIT Conference stand out? The technology training sessions also completely presented by 3rd-12th grade students. While adult volunteers from local schools and the community help the day run smoothly, all presentations are prepared and presented by the students!
Bloomington Junior High was by far the most represented school, sponsoring 13 different groups of presenters. District 87 elementary schools Bent and Washington were also well represented, sending multiple groups each. Dozen of other BJHS students were also present as participants. Please congratulate these student presenters for giving of their time and efforts.
Alex Scott - Free and Fast Website Designing
Nick Frichette - Robotics Unleashed Version 2.0
Toni Anderson, Andrea Dillman, Rachel Pierce - Shortcuts for Dummies
Alexandra Boge, Sydney Hendricks, Grant Snow - AOL Instant Messenger Tips and Tricks
Adam Brockman, Brittany Liska, Brock Twyman - How To Import Music & Videos To Your iPOD Using iTunes
Alex Kizer, Casey Laughlin - Using Command Prompt to Command Your Computer
Erika Adams and Sreelakshmi Suresh - Tips and Tricks for Google Earth
Courtney Bahler, McKenna Calhoon, Brianna Winkers - Get Safe with MySpace
Steffen Cody and Justin DeFields - Google SketchUp
Cole Rodgers and Jakob Scogin - Not YouTube, it's SchoolTube
Ram Santanam - YouTube
Will Gill and Jacob Oller - Cool Open Source Applications
Peter Dirks and Jason Chen - How to make Machinima
Our students were also fortunate enough to win three out of the four top prizes offered only to presenters in a drawing at the end of the conference!!!!
Cole Rodgers won a new i-Pod. iPod stereo, and an iTunes gift card.
McKenna Calhoon won a digital camera along with a digital picture frame.
And Steffen Cody was the grand prize winner of the 32" plasma HDTV along with a home theater system.
For more photos from the conference and of our lucky prize winners, visit:
http://www.district87.org/bjhs/sit_conference_photos.htm