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Corwin Hardham
Gorge Tech Alliance NewsletterJanuary 2016
About the GTA
The GTA supports, connects anddevelops the technology
community of the Columbia RiverGorge.
www.crgta.org * Email the GTA5412962266
In This IssueGTA Scholarship
FTC Teams Advance
GTA February Events
GTA Membership Drive Update
Member Job Postings
Other Events
Diamond Sponsor
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsors
GTA Announces 2016 Corwin Hardham MemorialScholarship Application
In 2015, the GTA proudly launched the Corwin HardhamMemorial Scholarship fund.Starting in 2016, this scholarshipwill be awarded annually to Gorgehigh school seniors, pursuing postsecondary degrees in science,technology, engineering, and math(STEM). Students graduating fromhigh school or home school orreceiving a GED in thespring/summer from Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Skamaniaand Klickitat counties are eligible to apply.
The scholarship application is now available at http://crgta.org/scholarship. Details on application requirements and submissionare included. Application deadline is April 1, 2016. You can alsofind more information on Corwin Hardham and how to donate tothe Corwin Hardham Memorial Scholarship fund at the website.
Nine Area FTC Teams Advance to SQs
Congratulations to the nine Gorge FIRST TECH Challengeteams that made it to the Oregon SuperQualifiers (SQs)! Teamscompeted in League Championships on January16 at HoodRiver Valley High School.
The teams heading to the SQs onFebruary 13 & 14 are the Bazinga! Bots,SaBOTAge, and KillaBots from TheDalles High School; Occam's Razor,SteelHead, Men in Green, and theFigNewtons from Hood River Valley HighSchool; the RoboHawks from Horizon
Christian; and The Shermanators from Sherman County JrSrHigh School. View the full results from the LeagueChampionships here. Winners from the SQs will go to theOregon state championship tournament at the end of February.
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Congratulations to all the teams and good luck!
GTA Events in February 2016
Below are events to be hosted by the GTA in February 2016.
Feb 4: CEO Excellence Forum Round table discussionThe GTA's next meeting of the CEO Excellence Forum isscheduled for next Thursday. Upper level management andCEOs within the GTA's tech companies are invited to this roundtable discussion to share information and build connections. Asa reminder, this forum will alternate between having a speakerand a group round table discussion to share experiences andlearn from each other. Please RSVP if you're interested inattending. Details: Thursday, February 412:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. China Gorge Restaurant, 2680 Old Columbia River Dr., HoodRiverThe event is free to attend (nohost lunch) but attendees mustbe CEOs or upperlevel management. RSVP requiredto Jacque.
Feb 9: Gorge Cloud Application Developers GroupThe first meeting of 2016 launches a new topical thread business data analysis. Ron Ellis Gaut of CSGPro will providethe latest news on Microsoft PowerBI and SQL Server 2016,which they are leveraging to build new customer applications. Ifyou are familiar with PowerBI, you know that its roots are asaddins that enable Excel to handle millions of records via thePowerPivot inmemory tabular database. Last year a newdesktop version of PowerBI integrating all of these tools(PowerPivot, PowerQuery, and PowerView) in one wasreleased, and the ability to publish "content packs" to the Azurecloud for end user consumption was expanded. Microsoft isreleasing new functionality and updates every month for thesetools. Further, most of these tools are free.
Details: Tuesday, February 9, 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.Naked Winery, 102 2nd Street, Hood RiverThe event is free to attend; RSVP via the Meetup.com site http://www.meetup.com/GorgeCloudApplicationDevelopersGroupGCAD/events/227901135/. Feb 9: Gorge Cloud Application Developers Group Business Intelligence SeminarThis is a second session following the regular GCAD meeting,starting at 6:30pm. For years, Business Intelligence solutionshave been increasingly focused on "selfservice," i.e. enablingend users to consume data more directly, rather than beingforced to rely on intermediaries to create the reports,visualizations and analyses they need to run their businesses. This has largely been the realm of expensive tools and onlinesuites like Tableau, DOMO, Cognos and others. Other thanthat, one would have needed deep expertise in how to build
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these solutions from scratch using Excel and databaseprogramming, which for many business analysts would meanallocating technical resources to build special databases andqueries to support their needs. Microsoft's progress in the field of business intelligence hasaccelerated in recent years, focused directly on building a dataecosystem that affords end users the power and flexibility toconsume data directly from their various sources and find theanswers more independently. This presentation aims to explorethe current and near future state of how Microsoft is doing thisthrough new desktop tools, database enhancements, cloudpublishing, cloud data hosting and more. Ron Ellis Gaut and Jamie Mikami, respectively the businessanalytics and app development directors of Portland's CSG Pro,will be presenting this topic with a focus on the latest andupcoming major developments in the Power BI and SQL Serverproduct lines. Having worked with a wide variety of customerbusiness intelligence scenarios in operations, sales andmarketing, they are well equipped to help calibrate managersand analysts from businesses small or large to the potential ofthis new generation of software techniques, tools and services. Please join us for a lively session that will include examples andtime to answer your questions. Details: Tuesday, February 9, 6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.Naked Winery, 102 2nd Street, Hood RiverThe event is free to attend. Attendance is limited to 25 pleaseRSVP to Jacque.
Feb: 16 Geek LunchForrest Rae, Director of the Ethical Hacking Team at OracleCorporation will speak on password security and two factorauthentication. Password insecurity is the number one issue forcybersecurity, especially in the cloud. Forrest will talk about thecauses of insecurity and tools to address the problem. Details: Tuesday, February 1612:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m.China Gorge Restaurant, 2680 Old Columbia River Dr., HoodRiverFree to attend; nohost lunch. All welcome!
Feb: 24 Featured Event Colleges & Universities ShareInternship ProgramsJoin the GTA and the Columbia Gorge Internship Network forthe second in a series of two Featured Events focused oninternships. At the February Featured Event, colleges anduniversities will share details on their internship programs anddiscuss how they can support internships and/or offer otherresources for Gorge technology businesses. We will haverepresentatives from several programs including ColumbiaGorge Community College, EmbryRiddle AeronauticalUniversity, Washington State University, Portland StateUniversity, Oregon Tech, and the Multiple Engineering
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Cooperative Program. This should be a great opportunity tolearn more about a variety of programs! Details:Wednesday, February 246:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m.Springhouse Cellar, 13 Railroad Ave., Hood River, ORNetworking and appetizers included. $10 for nonGTA members; free for GTA members.
GTA Membership Drive
We'd like to thank the newest members and sponsors to renewor join. There's still time to renew or join! Visit the website for more details. Thank you to our renewing members!
Gorge LogicGreenlight DevelopmentLisa SouleBrown Light Wave Communications
Welcome to our newest members!
Spatz Strategic Solutions, LLC
Thank you to our sponsors!
Google, Diamond SponsorGorge Networks, Silicon SponsorPrigel Machine & Fabrication, Silver SponsorReal Carbon, Silicon Sponsor
Job Opportunities with GTA Members
Custom Interface Inc. has an opening for a TechnicalSales Engineer. Read details on the job here.GoogleThe Dalles is hiring Facilities Technicians.Innovative Composite Engineering is hiring anEngineering Manager, Composite Tech, and anOperations Manager.Some of Insitu's latest openings include SupportTechnician, Software Engineers, Program Manager,Business Development Specialist, and Supply ChainAnalyst, among others..Real Carbon is seeking a Composite Engineer. ContactMike Graham ([email protected]) for moredetails.Seeq is hiring an Analytics Engineer, Software Engineer,Back End/Full Stack Engineer and Sales Executive.The Next Door has openings for a Director of Financeand Administration, a Treatment Services ProgramManager and a HR Specialist.
Other Events of Interest
February 3 Gorge Innoventure Brown Bag Workshop:Grant Writing 101 from 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m.
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March 3 (HR); March 4 (PDX) Communicate withConfidence, Stephanie Hartman/Catalyst PerformanceConsulting
April 2729 Small Unmanned Systems BusinessExposition, San Francisco,registration
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