Published 02-19-03
Submitted by Society for Information Management
 TAF is a non-profit organization that prepares Seattle's underserved students of color for success in a technology-driven world by providing free technology, life and job skills training. TAF has become a technical farm team, providing local companies with highly skilled people of color for the technical workforce. Using many of the techniques employed by the sports teams across the country, TAF recruits talented students of color right out of elementary and high school and gives them the training and opportunities they need to succeed in school, careers and life.
 SIM is a not-for-profit organization of information technology leaders that provides its diverse membership with access to international IT perspectives, continuing education opportunities and an elite network of peer resources. Members are senior executives, leading academicians, consultants and other leaders who shape the management and use of IT. SIM provides international leadership and education in the successful management and use of IT to achieve business objectives, and strives to cultivate tomorrow's IT leaders.
Price Taylor, SIM's Board President, presented the scholarship to Trish Millines Dziko during SIM's annual planning retreat. Price, in making the announcement to Trish, said "SIM has a proud history of community involvement and the vision and accomplishments of TAF inspire us to reach beyond ourselves and help ensure the leadership of tomorrow. Thank you Trish and TAF for all your hard won accomplishments."
"I was so pleased to accept the SIM Tuition Scholarship Award for a TAF student," said Trish Millines Dziko. "The relationship between SIM and TAF makes perfect sense. TAF is grooming and training the technical workforce of the future and SIM is training and connecting the technical leaders of today - how perfectly logical to bring these two groups together."
The SIM Tuition Scholarship will be awarded to a TAF student who demonstrates technical excellence and leadership qualities. The scholarship winner will be announced at the TAF graduation on June 20, 2003.
About Technology Access Foundation (TAF)
TAF is a non-profit foundation with a six-year track record of successfully delivering free technical and workforce development training to Seattle's low-income communities of color. TAF's Technical Teen Internship Program (TTIP) is a four-year, after-school, technology-training program. Throughout their high school careers, students attend classes six hours each week for eight months of the year. The intensive program offers four tracks: web development; network engineering; media production and programming. Each year builds on the skills learned during the previous year. For every year a TTIP student successfully completes the training and the internship, he/she is awarded a $1,000 scholarship for higher education. Learn more about TAF at www.techaccess.org.
About The Society for Information Management
Established in 1968, the Society for Information (SIM) is a not-for-profit organization of information technology experts, including CIOs, CTOs and emerging IT leaders, as well as key professionals within the IT community, such as academicians and consultants who shape the management and use of IT. In partnership with its network of 29 active chapters and four alliances, SIM provides international leadership and education in the
successful management and use of IT to achieve business objectives. SIMInternational is headquartered in Chicago. Learn more about the Seattle Chapter of SIM at www.seasim.org.
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