Inspiring Success

Who is a technologist? Creating IT Futures CEO, award-winning author and podcaster Charles Eaton delivered answers to this question in a 5-part series of podcasts earlier this year, featured now as a Podcast Flashback.

How do you grow from playing with Lincoln Logs to leading the world’s foremost technology association? In a Podcast Flashback from an episode of Technologist Talk Radio from early this year, CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux tells members of the Technology Student Association (TSA) how taking a punch from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can help develop their careers.

BizTech combed through nonprofit tech influencers on the web and selected 25 it says offer counsel and resources worth following. Creating IT Futures made that list.

Everybody knows pursuing a technology career is all about the money, right? Just as everyone knows teens never listen to their parents about anything and all U.S. tech jobs are moving overseas. Well, says CEO, award-winning author and social innovator Charles Eaton, on those three points what all those folks seem to know is backward. In a Podcast Flashback to an early episode of Technologist Talk, Eaton busts the last three of seven myths that can discourage teens from pursuing tech careers.

TechShopz In A Box workshops offer girls a fun, hands-on opportunity to expand their interest in technology. Former participants, now in high school, relished the chance to lead some of the very workshops they enjoyed during middle school. TechGirlz, creator of these workshops, is a nonprofit organization operated by Creating IT Futures.

Members of the TechGirlz Teen Advisory Board (TAB) spent the year advising, leading and learning. Volunteer Amy Freeman caught up with them to learn about their experiences working as young technologists in the third post in our 3-part TAB series.