{"id":280,"date":"2015-01-05T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T22:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-01-05T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T22:51:43","slug":"msde-microsoft-to-announce-technology-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/msde-microsoft-to-announce-technology-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"MSDE, Microsoft To Announce Technology Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Learning Programs Will Be Strengthened By Technology; Event Set For January 8 At High Point High School<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Department of Education and Microsoft Education will announce special statewide collaboration at High Point High School in Prince George\u2019s County this week that will make available new tools to Maryland public schools and their students.<\/p>\n<p>The program is made possible by corporate partners and will give Maryland youth access to additional training and technology to better prepare them for college and a modern workforce.\u00a0 The special program is Microsoft\u2019s response to President Obama\u2019s challenge through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/education\/k-12\/connected\" target=\"_blank\">ConnectED<\/a> initiative, designed to enrich K-12 education through technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>State Superintendent of Schools Lillian M. Lowery<br \/>\nJamie Harper, General Manager Microsoft Education<br \/>\nPrince George\u2019s County School Chief Executive Officer Kevin Maxwell<br \/>\nRay Leone, President of the Maryland PTA<br \/>\nTamara Petronka, Executive Director of Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>:\u00a0 Maryland State Department of Education\/Microsoft Joint Announcement<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0<\/strong>10 a.m., EST<br \/>\nJanuary 8, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong>:\u00a0High Point High School<br \/>\n3601 Powder Mill Road<br \/>\nHyattsville, MD\u00a0 20705<\/p>\n<p>(Note: the event will be held in the Library Media Center.\u00a0 Guests\/Media will enter the school via a marked entrance to the left of the main entrance.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Programs Will Be Strengthened By Technology; Event Set For January 8 At High Point High School<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/msde-microsoft-to-announce-technology-collaboration\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}