LAKE FOREST – The Annual Students Involved with Technology (SIT) Conference for students in grades 3-12 takes place Saturday, Feb. 20 from 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Deer Path Middle School in Lake Forest. SIT is a unique technology conference for students, by students. Students in grades 3-12 participate in this full-day of technology workshops learning from their peers, technology guest speakers, technology educators and mentors.
Students can choose from a wide variety of technology learning sessions and competitive activities throughout the conference day. Students decide which sessions to attend from topics they wish to learn more about that include coding, robotics, gaming, hardware, app development, Internet safety, Google products, and much, much more. Students can also choose to be a SIT presenter and host a session teaching their peers. Presenters develop a 20-minute session on a technology topic of their choice; create a resource for their session, and field questions and answers at the end of their presentation.
SIT strives to replicate an industry-level conference experience for its attendees, complete with opening session keynote speaker, a selection of presentations and demonstrations, snack and lunch. The day concludes with a closing session with contest announcements, drawings and prizes.
Each year the SIT Conference strives to expand its accessibility to regions across Illinois. This year’s SIT Conference will not only take place at Deer Path Middle School, it will be hosted simultaneously in other sites throughout the state of Illinois: Carbondale (Southern Illinois); DeKalb (Northern Illinois); East Moline (Western Illinois); Heartland Community College (Bloomington-Normal), and Bensenville (South Chicago area), Berwyn. Anticipated student participation between all 6 sites will reach over 2500.
For general SIT conference information, please visit the conference website located at www.sitconference.org.
Submitted by Lake Forest School District 67