El instructor de código de AIM School, Jorge Grimaldo-Sánchez, participó en recientes entrevistas de Telemundo y Radio Lobo sobre cómo AIM hace que la educación tecnológica sea accesible para los hispanohablantes. Gracias a estos medios de comunicación por ayudar a informar a los miembros de la comunidad.
AIM Upward Bound students volunteered at Chariots4Hope, dedicating their time to detailing cars and cleaning the playroom. The students worked hard and had a great time making an impact in the community. Special thanks to Chariots4Hope for providing this wonderful opportunity.
AIM’s Upward Bound program is part of AIM’s Youth Academies. Upward Bound is a college preparatory program funded through TRIO and the Department of Education to prepare first generation, under-resourced high school students for college.
Chariots4Hope helps people remove transportation barriers that prevent struggling families and individuals from reaching and maintaining self-sufficiency. Transportation is a critical component for employment, healthy community, child care, medical appointments and many other situations in daily life. Chariots4Hope helps individuals thrive.
Registration is now open for our 2024 Tech Awards, to be held on Nov. 14 at the exclusive Peter Fink Private Car Museum, 5808 North 90th Street. This annual awards ceremony recognizes and honors individuals in our community who make a positive impact in tech. This year’s AIM Tech Awards Honorary Chair is Al Lopez, CEO & Managing Partner of Let It Fly, which recently opened its second location at 1311 S 203rd Street. The event emcee is Rick Allen. Rick is the lead race announcer for NBC Sports’ NASCAR Xfinity Series race coverage. The 2024 Tech Award categories consist of Technology Innovator of the Year, Technology Leader of the Year, K-12 Educator of the Year and many more. This event also is a fundraiser to support AIM’s programs that make tech education and career training accessible to youth and adults. Please join us for a fantastic evening—you can reserve your seat here. If you know of someone who is positively making an impact in tech, please nominate them here.
AIM Institute thanks the attendees who participated in this year’s Heartland Developers Conference and Big AI, presented by Farm Credit Services of America. The two-day event featured keynote speakers Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO & Founder XLabs and RIBO, and Matt Waite, a Pulitzer Prize winner who developed PolitiFact; each discussed vary aspects of AI. Other key speakers included Farm Credit Services of America’s Executive Vice President and CIO Russ Wagner and Vice President of Strategy Enablement Jaclyn McLaughlin who spoke about the importance of customizing agile transformations to meet an organization’s unique needs.
Leading tech news media entity Silicon Prairie News provided excellent in-depth coverage of the event—read SPN’s highlights/narratives here. We also are very grateful to our other sponsors, including Lunavi for sponsoring the Tech Bash held at Let It Fly Sports Bar in downtown Omaha. AIM is happy to announce the 2025 Heartland Developers Conference, presented by Farm Credit Services of America, will be held October 6-7 at CHI Center. More info here: https://bit.ly/3MJxRuR
Through AIM Institute’s Youth in Tech Program area high school students participated in a CyberPatriot program this past summer. CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air & Space Forces Association to inspire K-12 students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Students learned the basics of Windows and Windows security as well as Linux and Linux security. Students then used these learnings in a CyberPatriot competition where they identified and solved issues.
