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The Mobile Development Certificate provides students with an essential set of courses to enable them to create effective mobile web sites and applications. Students will learn essential skills for mobile application development and gain proficiency in the software tools necessary to create mobile web sites and applications.

The students in Kirsten Lunzer's fourth-grade class watch as Codey the Troll crosses their computer screen, guided by the program they wrote to leap obstacles and collect blue jelly beans. These programming-savvy students in Minnetonka are on the leading edge of a new high-tech era that has Minnesota schools scrambling to respond to student demand for computer science classes that teach them how to develop software, apps, games and websites.

Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) is leading a coalition of technology-based employers to find solutions aimed at closing Minnesota's IT skills gap. There are an estimated 2,700 IT jobs in the Twin Cities alone, that remain unfilled - the IT Action Alliance is working to address this gap. The alliance is divided into workgroups to address 4 key objectives: ■ Launch a ten-year marketing campaign to deliver high-quality candidates for every open IT position ■ Increase re-employment of displaced IT workers through training opportunities ■ Utilize internships as a tool to place two and four-year college graduates ■ Promote IT careers in grades 6-12 to increase the number of high school students entering post-secondary programs.

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute affiliated with the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands. Core Research: The Center conducts research in three core areas with the goal of better aligning education and training with workforce and labor market demand: jobs, skills, and people. ■ JOBS: Our first research focus is on the historic and future labor market supply and labor market demand for education, with secondary interest in occupation and industrial clusters at the national and sub-national levels. ■ SKILLS: Our second research focus is on connecting 21st Century competencies with education, training, and applied learning pathways. ■ PEOPLE: Our third research focus is on identifying the effect of changing job requirements and skill demand on students and the current workforce, with a focus on varying degrees of access and success by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Public Policy The Center seeks to inform and educate federal, state, and local policymakers and stakeholders on ways to better align education and training with labor market demand and qualifications. It also seeks to create tools that enable decision makers to access and customize the data to allow for national, state, and sub-state analysis.

Aspen Institute publication offering concrete examples and describing six data sets that colleges can use today.

Join Microsoft, educators and industry experts for a free monthly webinar series designed to help educators and administrators learn how to help students meet college and career goals.

If you are interested in developing your technical skills in a variety of IA-related disciplines, take a look at the opportunities available through the IA mission at NSA.

"If any college student asked me what career would most assure thirty years of steady, well-paying employment," said Ross, "I would respond, 'cybersecurity.'"

These courses are offered at no cost and students earn a TEEX certification of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEU) for the completion of each course. These courses are certified by the American Council on Education (ACE) for recommended college credit at the completion of each track. Follow ACE instructions on how to request college credit.

What the Tool Provides The Graduate Employment Outcomes tool helps Minnesota's students, job seekers, career counselors, educators, and policy makers better understand the connections between postsecondary education choices and job outcomes. The tool displays key aspects of employment, including: Wages : What hourly pay can a graduate expect 12 and 24 months after graduation?

A brief introduction to cyber security for students who are new to the field. Network outages, data compromised by hackers, computer viruses and other incidents affect our lives in ways that range from inconvenient to life-threatening. As the number of mobile users, digital applications and data networks increase, so do the opportunities for exploitation.