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Susan and I saw a presentation at NACADA that this story reminded me about.  GamerGate has been a huge issue in the tech community for the last week or two and centers on online harassment of women in the gaming community.  I don't have a pithy thought on it, but I think it's an important issue in preparing a diverse tech workforce.

General Assembly was one of the first in the tech space to get that high quality brand name for technology education.

Search 80,000+ tech jobs. Dice.com has business analyst, software engineer, QA jobs and many more. Manage your tech job search and IT career on Dice.

Modern state of the art throughout the world of tech ranges across many disciplines, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, drones, and even biotechnology. How do you know where to start? The following are a few examples of the sort of tech jobs you can expect to see within the next 5 to 10 years if advancements continue along the paths they are going

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.

HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technological education where secondary and postsecondary educators, counselors, industry professionals, trade organizations, and technicians can update their knowledge and skills. Charged with Educating America's Technical Workforce, the event focuses on the preparation needed by the existing and future workforce for companies in the high-tech sectors that drive our nation's economy.

In 2010, 51 percent of people working in science and engineering occupations in the United States were white men, according to the National Science Foundation. As technology becomes more intertwined with everyday life, opportunities to create, monitor and administer that technology are at an all-time high.

Study by the Initiative Foundation and the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs to assess the supply/demand of the high-tech industry sector in the Brainerd Lakes Area.

Checkout this infographic about the highest paying and fastest growing IT Jobs out there. It has never been a better time than now to be part of the IT industry.

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.

Unemployment in the U.S. is declining, as demand for new jobs picks up across the country, and nowhere is the need more acutely felt than in tech industry. With its heady mix of Horatio Alger rags-to-riches success stories, its emphasis on individualism and privileging hard work and education, no industry is a better poster child for post-industrial American capitalism than the startup world of coders, marketers, and salesman.