2025 UEN Tech Summit

This session demonstrates how to engage high school students in IT through hands-on learning experiences. Explore competency-based education, cybersecurity labs, networking carts, and the Reboot & Recycle initiative, empowering students to gain real-world skills and certifications while giving back to their communities.

High school IT education should go beyond textbooks and lectures. In this session, we’ll explore how to build engaging, hands-on learning experiences that help students master technical skills, prepare for certifications, and gain exposure to the world of cybersecurity, networking, and hardware.

Key takeaways include:

• Cybersecurity & IT Labs: Leveraging VM-based labs for portable, scalable learning that brings cybersecurity into the classroom without network risks.
• Networking Carts: How networking carts enable easy deployment of network labs across schools without requiring a server rack, making labs accessible in any classroom.
• Hackathons & Cyber Camps: Creating immersive events where students can practice real-world skills in a fun, competitive environment.
• Reboot & Recycle: How students refurbish and donate computers, learning hardware skills while making a tangible community impact.

By the end of the session, you'll have practical tools to create scalable IT programs that engage high school students and help them succeed in the tech workforce.

Join us to learn more from the Utah Esports Coaches Association (UECA) about the first sanctioned season of esports in Utah with information from the UHSAA, and participate in a round table discussion led by the Utah Education Network (UEN).

1. Information about what the UECA is and its relation to the UHSAA. 2. Known and shareable details about the UHSAA's first sanctioned season for esports. Also, known details from the Ken Garff Esports collaboration in this first season. 3. Time for Q&A and round table discussion of the details after the presentation.

Presentation on how UEN's 5G private network with 5G Network slicing enables value creation for Student and Teacher use cases that require either low latency, target bitrate, Prioritization, assured resources and virtual private networks.

This will be a speaker session with PowerPoint slides supporting the 5G slicing topic. Nokia will describe the 5G slicing concept, benefits, high level architecture along with applicable use cases for UEN, such as, but not limited to, Cloud Gaming, Fixed Wireless Access, and Prioritization between student and teachers. There will also be an opportunity for Q&A at the session.

UEN is excited to announce that funding has been secured for Zoom licensing for the Utah K-20 education community. This new licensing agreement includes many new and exciting upgrades to the previous licensing. Users will now enjoy expanded features such as Zoom Docs, webinars, translations, Clips, Zoom CRC, Zoom Room licensing, and more. The structure of the licensing will now require sub-accounts to be assigned to each LEA and can be managed locally. We will dive into what this structure looks like and what is required by administrators of each sub-account.

Account administrators and general users will find value in this discussion as we introduce some new features that are now included. We will introduce the new Zoom statewide licensing, what it entails, the overall structure of sub-accounts, how users will be managed, and the latest Zoom expanded features that are now included. Plenty of time will be allowed for individual Q&A.

 Discussion of disk and data storage types, the Resilience, Security, and Efficiency features to consider when making decisions about the various storage solutions that are out on the market for data center storage. Backup requirement evaluation; High Availability evaluation; Disaster Recovery evaluation.

Fundamentals of Data Storage; Efficiency, Resillience, Security - Storage Types -- Local Disk --- Hardware Types and Speeds --- Storage Arrays ---- Erasure Coding ---- Data Deduplication ---- Encryption ---- Compression --- Hybrid Storage Arrays -- Network Attached Storage / File Shares -- Storage Area Network / Block Storage - Storage Presentation -- Software-Defined Storage (SDS) -- Object Storage (HTTPS) -- SMB Share -- NFS Share -- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) -- LUN via iSCSI or Fibre Channel - Access Control -- OS Filesystem Controlled --- User Directory Referenced - Data Lose Defence -- Business Continuity Terms -- Ransomware --- Restore Data but Refresh Identity --- Use Immutability if you can afford it -- High Availability -- Disaster Recovery --- Partial (Work to time of recovery) --- Full (Flip the switch on)

How I built a driveable couch - a fun demo.

Regarding Couchbot, I built a driveable couch (https://youtu.be/cMUn3P2ZrUM?feature=shared). I can share lessons learned and fun insights. We will make it lighthearted fun.