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Avnet Tech Games Winners
Showcase Innovative Thinking and Technical Skills
PHOENIX April 08, 2010 More than 160 students from Arizona colleges
and universities vied for top honors in Avnet, Inc.’s (NYSE:AVT)
fifth annual Avnet
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Tech Games onsite competition on Saturday, April
10, 2010, at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Ariz.,
by applying what they are learning in school to real-world scenarios.
Each winning student collected $1,000 scholarships and faculty members
were awarded $200 for leading a participating team and an additional
$300 for each winning team. These prizes were made possible in part
by a $50,000 donation from the Carstens Family Funds for the second
consecutive year.
A panel of judges of technology firm executives, engineers and
technical experts selected the winners based on their ability to
meet the technical requirements of the task, apply innovative approaches
to the solution and demonstrate professional skills. Fifty-three
student teams competed in this year’s Avnet Tech Games, representing
11 colleges and universities: Arizona State University, the University
of Advancing Technology, the University of Arizona, Central Arizona
College and seven Maricopa County Community Colleges.
This year’s onsite event also marked the five year milestone
of the Avnet Tech Games. Since its inception in 2006, nearly $180,000
in scholarships and prizes have been awarded to hundreds of the
1,050 students and 100 faculty members who have participated in
the Avnet Tech Games. What started as a technology competition for
Maricopa Community Colleges students only has grown to become a
year-round competition available to college students globally to
compete through virtual technology games and contests.
“The expansion of the Avnet Tech Games exemplifies what’s
possible when leading technology companies partner with the education
community and collaborate on preparing students for the workforce,”
said Teri Radosevich, vice president of community relations and
public affairs for Avnet, Inc. “It’s a win-win-win scenario
where students get the opportunity to learn job skills, academia
learns what business really looks for in new employees, and business
benefits from graduates more knowledgeable about what businesses
really need.”
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Rice Business Plan
Competition Announces New Women Entrepreneur Award
HOUSTON April 08, 2010--The 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition
(RBPC) is pleased to announce a new $10,000 Award for Courageous
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competition. The prize is intended to encourage more women
to launch scalable, venture capital fundable, businesses.
The prize is sponsored by four women entrepreneurs who form
the nCourage Entrepreneurs Investment Group, all successful
entrepreneurs in their own right. The group includes Cindy
Boyd, president Sentigy; Elizabeth Wiggins, a successful 35
year career veteran of public accounting; Lamar Mathews, president
of GP of Falcon Partners, Ltd. and Shelby Scarbrough, president
of Conexus Global Services.
The 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition is the largest and
richest business plan competition in the world, with forty-two
teams competing for over $1 million in prizes at Rice University
in Houston on April 15-17, 2010.
To be eligible for the $10,000 Women’s Entrepreneur
cash prize, a team must have a woman as the CEO or serving
in a top leadership role, or have been significantly owned
or managed by women.
“Without fail, the most intriguing, visionary, dynamic
individuals we meet are entrepreneurs," said Shelby Scarbrough,
president, Conexus Global Services. “The energy generated
from this breed of people lights the way to a bright future
for the entire world. Inevitably, a solution or two or three,
that could rock our world, will emerge from the Rice Business
Plan Competition. How could we miss the opportunity to help
ignite the passions of these talented and important problem
solvers? Besides, what an entrepreneurial energy boost! It
is Red Bull for Idea Junkies.”
For more information about the Rice Alliance, visit www.alliance.rice.edu.
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Argosy University, Nashville
to Introduce Psy.D. Program This Fall
Nashville, TN April 12, 2010 -- Argosy University (http://www.argosy.edu/),
Nashville’s College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
announced today that it will introduce a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.)
in Clinical Psychology program to its curricula in the fall. This
will be the first Psy.D.
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program offered in Tennessee
and gives students an alternative to the traditional Ph.D. in Clinical
Psychology.
The Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology program is designed to educate
and prepare students for eventual roles as clinical psychologists.
The curriculum integrates psychology theory, training and practice,
as well as other core practical and academic skills. Faculty members
are practicing psychologists who model the practitioner/scholar
orientation of the program.
Specifically, the program’s objectives include training students
to become practitioners capable of delivering effective diagnostic
and therapeutic services to a diverse client base, whether on an
individual, family or group basis; evaluating the effectiveness
of their services; understanding the biological, psychological and
sociological bases of human functioning; and exercising leadership
both in the healthcare delivery system and in the training of mental
health professionals.
The university also announced that Laura Stoppelbein, Ph.D., has
accepted the Chair position for Argosy University’s psychology
department. Dr. Stoppelbein worked previously as the Clinical Director
for Child Psychological Inpatient Services in the Department of
Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Division of Psychology at the University
of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss. Her role involved
developing and overseeing clinical and research rotations for psychology
residents and post-doctoral fellows, which included multiple training
programs across different areas of mental health service. Dr. Stoppelbein
graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor’s
degree in Psychology in 1997. She continued her education at the
university by obtaining a Master’s degree in Clinical Child
Psychology in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology in 2003.
“This program will be an excellent addition to our present
offerings and offer our current, former and future students yet
another level of quality education at Argosy University,”
said Dr. Sandra L. Wise, President, Argosy University, Nashville.
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