Category Archives: Upcoming School Events

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Kennedy ITA will be hosting a guest speaker on March 31st

Meerah Rajavel is currently Chief Information Officer at Citrix. She leads the global IT team that drives industry transformation and delivers solutions for Citrix employees and their customers.  She excels at promoting transformation, innovation, profitability and agility for business through technology. She works hard to inspire and motivate professionals to achieve exceptionally high business outcomes through entrepreneurial […]

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Thank You Jose Sierra and Robin Lopéz!

Jose Sierra is an IT Project Manager, Systems Specialist, a Steering Committee Member for the Latin America and Native American ERG at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and is also a WCCUSD ITA Advisory Board Member. He was born in Guatemala, Jose and his parents made the big transition leaving everything behind to move to the […]

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El Cerrito Mock Interviews (March 30-31)

The El Cerrito IT Academy is looking for professionals who work in Technology roles/organizations to conduct a virtual mock interview (via Zoom) with 11th-grade students in the Tech Academy. We need 20 professionals willing to share an hour and a half of their time to support students by helping them grow their career-ready skills. If […]

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Free Daily Programming Lab

Every day from 4-5 PM, El Cerrito High School hosts a programming/tutoring lab that allows any student to get help with their classes. Anyone in the IT Academy who needs help with material from any class is able to join! The lab is open to students from other schools as well. Everyone comes for a […]

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Kennedy High School Mentorship Program

The Kennedy Mentorship Program has started and we have over 40 students that have been matched to a professional from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Chevron, HP, T-Mobile, ForgeGlobal, Dish and many more. We have mentors from the education, health, finance/banking, and sales fields. The students have a minimum of four sessions with our mentors where […]

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