Extra Credit Opportunity 9/9 - Community Group
09/06/16 06:09
This Friday, Sept 9th at 7:00 pm in SSWB 1636, CJS and U-M Kinyokai are excited to host a special lecture by Takayuki Furuyama, Founder/CEO of ITNAV Ishinomaki. Pizza and beverages will be served, so be sure to come hungry! Please also note that this lecture will be given in Japanese without interpretation.
Founded in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, ITNAV Ishinomaki is a grassroots organization based in Ishinomaki City that promotes K-12 IT education through community workshops, joint programs with local high schools, and hackathons.
Takayuki, an Ishinomaki-native who was based in Tokyo at the time of the disaster, moved back to Ishinomaki after the tsunami and founded ITNAV with the goal of training 1,000 IT engineers there by 2021 (the 10th anniversary of the disaster). For more info, please see this promotional video.
If interested in attending, please send me your RSVP by this Thursday, Sept 8th. (RSVPs are purely for planning purposes, so please feel free to attend even if you cannot RSVP by Thursday.) Please RSVP to bradlyh@umich.edu
Founded in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, ITNAV Ishinomaki is a grassroots organization based in Ishinomaki City that promotes K-12 IT education through community workshops, joint programs with local high schools, and hackathons.
Takayuki, an Ishinomaki-native who was based in Tokyo at the time of the disaster, moved back to Ishinomaki after the tsunami and founded ITNAV with the goal of training 1,000 IT engineers there by 2021 (the 10th anniversary of the disaster). For more info, please see this promotional video.
If interested in attending, please send me your RSVP by this Thursday, Sept 8th. (RSVPs are purely for planning purposes, so please feel free to attend even if you cannot RSVP by Thursday.) Please RSVP to bradlyh@umich.edu