Number 025

June 2010

In this issue:

Inter- American IT' s

Second Anniversary!

The Faculty of
Engineering and
Technology at
Montemorelos University
English Version
will Offer a Course on
Inter-American IT's Second Computer Networks
Anniversary!
NCU Students Win
With great joy, we celebrated this Regional Microsoft’ s

month the second year of Inter- Imagine Cup Competition

American IT, the first and only monthly
RoboCamp
bilingual technology newsletter in the
Inter-American Division of the SDA. Join
Summer Technology
the celebration on Facebook:: Camp 2010
http: //alturl. com/2b4q
Technology Competitions
Thank God, more than 3,000 people receive this publication every month and its
website (http://fit.um.edu.mx/interamericanit/) has been visited nearly 4,000 Interesting Links

times by readers in the following countries:

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Ecuador, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Brazil, Puerto Rico, El Salvador,
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Barbados, Australia, Nigeria, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Taiwan, Russia, Guyana, Center for Research and
Technology Development,
Ghana, South Korea, Philippines, U.S. Virgin Islands, Norway, India, Trinidad and
Faculty of Engineering and
Tobago, Benin, Turkey, Sweden, Saint Lucia and Belize.
Technology, Montemorelos
University
Thank you all! Please send your news about technology events and projects in http://fit.um.edu.mx/CIDET
the Inter-American Division to be published in the following numbers.

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 The Faculty of Engineering and
Technology at Montemorelos University The intention with this
publication is to invite other
will Offer a Course on Computer
higher education institutions
Networks in our Inter-American
Division to join efforts
This course focuses on theoretical and
in the development of
practical training in design, configuration, information technologies in
deployment and maintenance of our territory. Please send
computer networks, as well as on your IT news to be
knowledge of emerging technologies in published on the next

this area. issue!

Read the new on Comunicando (in Spanish): http://www.um.edu.mx/index.php?

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If you would like to

NCU Students Win Regional Microsoft’s unsubscribe from this

publication, send an e-mail
Imagine Cup Competition
to

Find all the information about this great new on: harveyalferez@um.edu.mx
with following text in the
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RoboCamp
Enjoy the summer technology camp at

Montemorelos University! Come and learn how to

build and program robots. You will acquire basic
knowledge of electronics, computers and robotics
with LEGO Mindstorms
(http://mindstorms.lego.com). July 12-23.

There are two categories: RoboKids (7-12 years

old) and RoboTeen (>12 years old).

For more information, please send an e-mail to

fit@um.edu.mx.

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 Summer Technology Camp

The Northern Caribbean University Computer and Information Sciences

Department will be hosting a Summer Technology Camp during the period July 18
– July 23, 2010.

The main objective of this programme is to stimulate interest in the area of

Information Technology (IT) and careers in Computer Science (CS) with the aim of
developing our IT professionals in Jamaica. They are targeting high school
students across Jamaica.

For additional information please visit: http://cis.ncu.edu.jm/techcamp/

Technology Competitions

- Desafío Inter 2010, Helping the Technology Entrepreneur in Latin America:

http://www.desafiointel.com/

- ThinkQuest International Competition 2011 - ThinkQuest Projects, Digital

Media, Application Development:
http://www.thinkquest.org/competition/index.html

Interesting Links
- Adventist Virtual Reference, NOE: http://noah.um.edu.mx/english.html

- Free Projection Software: http://www.misternifty.com/ministry-

tools/multimedia/free-projection-software-2/

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- Twitter and Evangelism: http://www.internetevangelismday.com/twitter-
evangelism.php

- Thumb Wars: Can Text Messaging and Twitter Enhance Worship or Just Interrupt
it?
http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/preachingworship/worship/thumbwars.html

- 18 Effective Search Engine Optimization Techniques:

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2010/apr/28.html

- What Google Values: 6 Ways to Organize Your Ministry or Church Web Site to
Boost Your Rankings: http://ministrymarketingcoach.com/2009/11/02/what-
google-values-6-ways-to-boost-your-ministry-or-church-web-site-rankings/

Inter-American IT is an initiative of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Montemorelos University, Mexico. In its
moment, it is going to be formally presented to the Education Department of the Inter-American Division. For the
meanwhile, Montemorelos University has the unique and exclusive responsibility for publishing research projects and
technology news.