2025 UEN Tech Summit

The San Juan School District is implementing a custom benefits enrollment portal for its employees to select their benefits options for the coming plan year. SQL backend, .NET Core front end.

An overview of the process of planning and building a web app to facilitate employee open enrollment and selection of health, dental, etc. benefits for the coming plan year. Employee selections will then be exported to LINQ ERP. Includes data file export and transmission to various benefits providers. Explanation of various platforms and technologies used, including SQL Server, .NET Core, Powershell, SFTP, and EDI. Questions from a business administration standpoint will also be discussed.

PBS content packaged in free, easy accessible resources, media galleries, interactive lessons and full lesson plans? Yes, please! This web based resource centered on PBS content from Daniel Tiger, to Nova, to Nature, to Frontline is for all teachers Prek-12 in any subject. It is easy to filter for subject and grade, easy to use in the classroom, and utilizes content from the most trusted public media brand in the country. Did I mention that it's free?

In this session, the PBS Utah education team will talk about technological resources that PBS has to offer educators such as PBS Learning Media, Student Reporting Labs Story Maker, Media Literacy Trainings and more.

This presentation will focus on identifying healthy thinking patterns, managing stress and anxiety, understanding sadness and depression, building healthy relationships and providing strength to others.

The presentation will answer the following questions: What is emotional resilience? How do our thoughts influence our emotions? What are the most common inaccurate thinking patterns? How can you validate others through listening? How can IT professionals increase their ability to adapt to stressful challenges? How does taking responsibility help increase peace and power? What’s the role of expressing gratitude? Rich Finlinson is a former director of communication for the Utah Education and Telehealth Network. He retired in June of 2023 after 25 years at UEN. Rich holds Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees from the University of Utah and has been accredited by the Public Relations Society of America. He is an avid writer, photographer and lap swimmer. He and his wife Laura are the parents of five children and 18 grandchildren.