Bethel Launches Cloud Com­put­ing Boot Camp

MISHAWAKA-Bethel Uni­ver­sity has re­ceived a Labs for In­dus­try Fu­tures and Trans­for­ma­tion (LIFT) grant to run a free Cloud Com­put­ing Boot Camp for stu­dents and mem­bers of the com­mu­nity. This boot camp has al­ready run a few ses­sions and just started a new one on Jan. 18.

Some ses­sions are slightly dif­fer­ent from oth­ers. One form is a ba­sic overview of cloud com­put­ing on sev­eral dif­fer­ent plat­forms, with the pur­pose of giv­ing the par­tic­i­pants a ba­sic un­der­stand­ing. Other ses­sions help the par­tic­i­pants be­come skilled and even cer­ti­fied in cloud com­put­ing. Ac­cord­ing to Pro­fes­sor of Com­puter Sci­ence Cathy Bareiss, Ph.D., this pro­gram is be­ing used to help Michi­ana em­ploy­ees be­come equipped for the twenty-first cen­tury. 

The cur­rent ses­sion is de­signed for par­tic­i­pants to gain more in­for­ma­tion and an aware­ness of what cloud com­put­ing is. This sum­mer a ses­sion will be run that is an in­ten­sive four-week pro­gram de­signed for par­tic­i­pants to gain readi­ness for an ap­pren­tice­ship, and is open to any­one, even high school stu­dents who may wish to join.

These ses­sions will run in phases through sum­mer 2023, with three cur­rently planned through that time. Bethel stu­dents are wel­come to sign up for this ses­sion or any other one if they are in­ter­ested. Four stu­dents are cur­rently en­rolled in the Jan­u­ary 18 ses­sion, which runs from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. every Tues­day night. Reg­is­tra­tion can be found at bethelu­ni­ver­sity.edu/​cloud-boot-camp.