Through this program, BDPA matches high school and college students with corporations and provides mentoring to those students. This program is designed to enable students to go from the classroom to boardroom. Participating corporations include Medtronic, Minnesota Twins Baseball Club and Keystone Computer Solutions.
The High School Technology Program (HSTP) provides a range of learning from basic website development to problem solving and building applications with computer programming. This Saturday program is intended to teach motivated students interested in internet application development many core disciplines and application development principles. This multi-week program runs January through April at Metropolitan State University. HSTP is divided into three levels, Level I, Level II and Level III.
The High School Technology Program (HSTP) provides a range of learning from basic website development to problem solving and building applications with computer programming. This Saturday program is intended to teach motivated students interested in internet application development many core disciplines and application development principles. This multi-week program runs January through April at Metropolitan State University. HSTP is divided into three levels, Level I, Level II and Level III.
This program, the Digital Literacy Standard Curriculum Version IV, teaches generic ICT skills and concepts. This course prepares students to take the Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) training and certification. The MTA certification is entry level and will assist students in gaining experience and employment in a dynamic IT field. Students can expect to start getting acclimated to the technology to be able to support Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security; a rapidly growing industry. We will offer both networking and also application development/HTML5 training based on Microsoft industry standards. This course is taught in the summer and will continue in the fall on Saturdays with the student mastering skills at their own pace.
This program selects the top five students and alternates from HSTP. It is intended to teach students who are capable of programming at higher levels, the opportunity to compete in a national programming competition during BDPA’s national technical conference. This multi-week intense program runs June through August. Classes are multiple times per week at Metro State University covering not only web application development but technology and BDPA history.
This program is intended to provide middle and high school students with limited exposure to technology the opportunity to learn in exciting hands-on topics based series. Topics include hardware/networking, basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C+, PHP, SSL, Project management, social media, digital media, scratch programming and team building and discussion time with IT professionals. Field trips included visits to a data center, a music technology workshop, and a Target Field technology tour. CYTC is a six to eight week program is offered in the summer. The Introduction to IT is a 8 week program taught during the school year on Saturdays.