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”Building Your IT Career” McCoy’s 2007 AITP Region 3 Student Conference Texas State ? October 25-27, 2007 ? San Marcos, Texas HYPERLINK  WINNERS HIGHLIGHTS What a tremendous weekend it was at Texas State wherein 280 Information Technology students, faculty, professionals, sponsors and exhibitors gathered for the McCoy’s 2007 AITP Region 3 student conference in McCoy Hall of Texas State University-San Marcos. McCoy’s Building Supply, the conference title sponsor, CIO Dennis Strong got things off to a grand start with his reflections of his own career and the basic skills that it takes to be a successful IT professional in today’s market and environment. The rest of the day was filled with exhibitors/recruiters, breakout sessions, tours of the Texas State IT facilities and challenging contest events throughout the day and into the evening which included Office Solutions, PC Troubleshooting, Network Design, Systems Analysis Design, Database Design and Application Development. Area high school students and faculty were invited by the Texas State AITP student chapter for the 1st annual high school IT symposium with Lehman, Clemens and Dripping Springs high school IT students/faculty taking part. Special high-school only contests in Office Solutions and Application Development were held which will become an annual event and a project of the Texas State AITP student chapter and the CIS department faculty. The newly formed AITP Student Leadership Council also held its first meeting in conjunction with the conference and Texas State’s own student chapter CEO Doug Fogle is on that council! The conference was hugely successful due to the full support of the Texas State AITP student chapter, faculty and staff. Special thanks also goes to our conference sponsors which included McCoy’s, USAA, ARGO, Dell, Tesoro, Tokyo Electron, RobertHalf Technology and AITP Region 3. Generous support was also provided by both the San Antonio and Austin AITP professional cha