Get engaged with i.c.stars Core Volunteer Opportunities (i.e Behavioral and Technical Mock Interviews, Professional Coffee Chats). Volunteers, like you, have a significant impact on our interns and have been shown to be linked with positive outcomes, inspiring them on their career journey. We are hosting many [In-person]/[Virtual] volunteer opportunities this September. If you cannot make it please repost and tag some of your network. We would love anyone who has the time and professional background to please join us and help impact the future generation of tech professionals. You can sign-up here using this link: https://lnkd.in/gp-9bZNx
i.c.stars |* Chicago
Non-profit Organizations
Chicago, Illinois 5,614 followers
We Find Talent, Train Talent And Help Put Talent To Work. Celebrating 20 years of impact.
About us
i.c.stars was established to create economic opportunity for underserved communities by bridging disconnected young adults with the high growth tech sector. Participants learn by doing; they build web based applications to solve client challenges - with coding, business, and leadership instruction provided along the way. They also gain the professional network needed to jumpstart their careers. i.c.stars graduates become technologists who earn living wages (300% more than before) working as application developers or business analysts. They create nonprofits and advocate for change, putting into action i.c.stars’ definition of leadership: making opportunities for others. i.c.stars also works to change employer perceptions and practices around nontraditional talent by engaging each year hundreds of employers through industry conferences and convenings. Currently in Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas City. Contact [email protected] for more information.
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http://www.icstars.org
External link for i.c.stars |* Chicago
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1998
- Specialties
- technology, leadership, empowerment, community, STEM, Diversity, Job skills training, Javascript, HTML, Python, SQL, Cyber, Software, Employer-facing, Agile, Apps, workforce, and career development
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750 N Orleans St
Ste 500
Chicago, Illinois 60654, US
Employees at i.c.stars |* Chicago
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Tom Tresser
Civic Educator and Public Defender
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Jeff Siok
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Jerome Snell
Global Tech Exec | Nonprofit board member | Transformational Change | Startup to Enterprise | EdTech, FinTech, RegTech, E-commerce | CTO at Modern…
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Patrick Moroney
Technology Strategy Advisor, 27 Year CIO, President TLA, i.c.stars Chicago Board Chair, Telecom Advising for Broker/full life cycle MSP
Updates
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Chicago iOpener is now complete! We had a busy morning with just over 175 attendees at our thought-leadership conference last week, highlighting Emerging Innovations in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence. Heartfelt thank yous go to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (and the HCSC team) for hosting us, to our sponsors Comcast Business, Bernard & Co, Creospan Inc., Centric Consulting, Epiphany Solution Group - ESG -, Equinix, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. (LRS), KPMG US, Red Foundry, Robert Half Technology Staffing, Summerfest Tech, and TalentCraft for continuing to support us, for our speakers who took the time out to share their insight and perspective, and for all the attendees who joined us! Thank you for seeing stars 💫
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Featured in Citizen Weekly: i.c.stars is Training People for the Tech Industry from Diverse Backgrounds “It’s really not just the technical education, it’s also the larger leadership development and helping people to find their voice, if they haven’t had a voice before, helping them to stand up for themselves and helping them to understand the types of corporate environments they are going into and navigate the communities they will be working in,” Karin Norington-Reaves Keep reading more: https://lnkd.in/guP_FYKR
i.c. Stars Is Training People For The Tech Industry From Diverse Backgrounds
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Our Cycle 55 project sponsor, HCSC, and Jim Petrassi will present the RFP, collaboration and update on the interns' project, and then introduce the amazing team who won Sprint I: Tremar Thomas Rostyslav Harasymiak Angel Campos Kharchenko Valerii DeAntratrice Ross - Team Blue Star ⭐ Come hear more about incredible work, time and effort the i.c.stars interns' put into their projects, as well as meet them!! Have you secured your ticket yet for our thought leadership conference? Registration closes today at 12 PM! https://lnkd.in/gD4m8yX7
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Big news! 🎉 The incredible Karin Norington-Reaves, the new CEO of i.c.stars |* Chicago, will be apart of our stellar iOpener conference speaker line-up! 🚀 This is your chance to meet Karin, and hear about her vision for i.c.stars and the future of work. Have you grabbed your ticket for this must-attend thought leadership event? Don't miss out on the chance to be inspired! 🌟 https://lnkd.in/gD4m8yX7
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Thank you to BSA | The Software Alliance for featuring i.c.stars as your community partner at the Innovation Nation Event during the DNC in Chicago this week. The lineup featured powerful conversations between technology thought leaders and policymakers around innovation, AI, and the future of tech upskilling; including a fireside chat between i.c.stars CEO Karin Norington-Reaves & Chris Mohr from SIIA. The generous $75,000 contribution from Innovation Nation will go directly towards supporting i.c.stars technology, business, and leadership training program for underserved Chicago adults. Thank you! ACT | The App Association BSA | The Software Alliance XR Association Consumer Technology Association Entertainment Software Association Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), SIIA TechNet: The Voice of the Innovation Economy
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Our newest board member is on the lineup! Michael Limjoco, SVP Business Line Information Systems, Corporate, Wintrust Financial Corporation has joined the line-up. He'll be kicking the event off and guiding the day's events. Have you secured your ticket yet for i.c.stars' thought leadership conference? We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gD4m8yX7
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Another great speaker on our iOpener lineup! Mechie Nkengla, Ph.D., CEO, Chief AI & Data Strategist of Data Products LLC has been secured for our iOpener conference! Have you secured your ticket yet for our fall thought leadership conference? We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gD4m8yX7
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Another great speaker has been secured for our iOpener conference! Derrick Higgins, VP, Data Science & AI Solutions, at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas has joined the line-up. Have you secured your ticket yet for our fall thought leadership conference? We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gD4m8yX7
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Our i.c.stars staff, interns, and alumni had an amazing time at this year's golf outing! Despite the heat, we loved making new connections and catching up with familiar faces. Lots of mulligans, raffle tickets, and CIO lunches found eager participants! Thank you to our generous sponsors - and thank you to SIM Chicago!! Arely Dorsey Jessica Moton Tandelaya Hill Karin Norington-Reaves Amanda Hogan Larry Cowans Brian Anderson Sarah Joy Shockey Jennifer Nicole Pierce Cristhian Romero Sherronda Booker Ehi Aimiuwu Jonathan Ramirez Lauren Zachok Brandies Meva'a Juliana Sacardo Elizabeth Anderson Ferruelo Christi Contouris Sean Dressler Tremar Thomas
SIM Chicago's 18th Annual Charity Golf Outing in support of i.c.stars |* Chicago was a huge success, with more than 200 people in attendance. A special congratulations goes out to this year's contest winners: Putting Contest, Sponsored by Mechdyne Corporation: Peter Dull Chipping Contest, Sponsored by nvisia: Jack McLaughlin Longest Drive #2, Sponsored by Advantage Technical: Greg Strauss Longest Drive #6, Sponsored by LaSalle Network: Ian Price Longest Drive #14, Sponsored by nvisia: Keith Yario Longest Drive #17, Sponsored by rSTAR Technologies: Kevin Leurck Longest Drive #19, Sponsored by SPAATECH: Matt Babicz Longest Drive #27, Sponsored by TalentCraft: Matt Babicz Closest to the Pin #5, Sponsored by Experis: Michael Cerilli Closest to the Pin #8, Sponsored by Moveworks: Chris Warfield Closest to the Pin #12, Sponsored by Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. (LRS): Paul Guten Closest to the Pin #16, Sponsored by Rockhop: Keith Yario Closest to the Pin #24, Sponsored by SailPoint: Derek Nusbaum Closest to the Pin #26, Sponsored by Sutoer Solutions: Brandon Matiyak
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