** COIN 61, 63. 70a Final Exams **

Your final exam is available from 1:30 Monday until 10:00 PM Tuesday evening. See your Week 11/12 Online Guide for more details.

Read the instructions carefully, breathe deeply, think clearly and good luck!

Innovation and Community Colleges - The Overlooked National Asset

Here's a link to an interesting article in Forbes about the value of a community college education.

Innovation and Community Colleges - The Overlooked National Asset

Gary Shapiro, Contributor

President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association 

...from the article

And while four-year colleges might dominate the discussions of “college” in America, for millions of Americans, community colleges provide real, practical training

Rather than emphasize the four-year degree as an entitlement, as the president has done, our national goal should be a skilled, hard-working, employable work force meeting our competitive and operational needs. Community colleges are the door to opportunity for millions of Americans and we should be encouraging those programs and schools that train Americans for the jobs of the future.

Thanks to Ron Lichty for the link!!

Foothill Celebrates Women's History Month

Foothill Celebrates Women's History Month
Variety of Free Cultural Activities throughout March
March 01, 2012 - March 30, 2012
Students, faculty, staff and community leaders have created an exciting calendar of cultural enrichment activities to commemorate Women's History Month at Foothill throughout March. Events include guest speakers, artist exhibit and more. Foothill hosts numerous heritage month celebrations from January through June. Learn more about these activities.

Author Series Daniel Seddiqui & "50 Jobs in 50 States"

The Foothill College Authors Series presents Daniel Seddiqui, author of 50 Jobs in 50 States Feb. 29 at noon in the Hearthside Lounge (Room 2313) Authors Series books are available at the Foothill College Bookstore at a 20-percent discount. Admission is free. 

** COIN 63/70a Midterms This Weekend **

If you are in COIN 63, Advanced Web Technologies or COIN 70a JavaScript, you have a midterm this weekend.

COIN 63
Sometime between 8:00 am today and 10:00 pm Sunday evening, log on to Etudes and choose Tests.

COIN 70a
 Sometime between 8:00 am today and 10:00 pm Saturday evening, log on to Etudes and choose Tests.

You can review test taking by clicking the My Workspace tab and then choose Learn how to take tests in the system (on the right under Tips and Information).
For more info, see this week's Online Guide.

** President's Day! **

** Internships!! **

Here is a link to a centralized online resource that has current listings for mostly paid internships in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.

I highly encourage you to go to the Intern Bound website at https://internbound.com/, sign up and then take a look at the extensive listings they have with great companies! (Pixar, Lucas Films, IBM,  Adobe, Allstate,  AT & T, Bank of America,  Boeing, Cisco Systems, Dreamworks, Dropbox, Hertz, Disney, ESPN, Facebook, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Macy's, Nordstrom,  AutoDesk, Apple,  Ernst & Young, Facebook, Federal Reserve, Mattel,  McGraw-Hill,  Microsoft, NBC,  Rambus, SF Opera,  San Jose Earthquakes, Yahoo, Google, Yelp,  Verizon Wireless, Twitter and lots more!)