About The House Student App Challenge:

Modeled after the Congressional Art Competition, the House Student App Challenge promotes Computer Science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education by recognizing and incentivizing our nation’s young programming talent.

The House Student App Challenge is open to all high school students in participating districts. The inaugural App Challenge will run from February 1 to April 30, 2014.

Congressman Bob Goodlatte and Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo serve as the 2014 App Challenge Co-chairs. Members of the House of Representatives can register to host an App Challenge at studentappchallenge.house.gov

This new competition, which is hosted by the U.S. House of Representatives, is designed to engage students’ creativity and encourage their participation in STEM education fields. It is a nationwide event that allows high school students from across the country to compete by creating and exhibiting their software application (“app”) for mobile, tablet, or other computing devices on a platform of their choice. Throughout the competition period, participating students will be provided opportunities to engage with various STEM educational partners, located within their own communities, to mentor and assist them with their app development.

About The Congressional App Challenge Coalition:

The Congressional App Challenge Coalition proudly serves as the official STEM advisor to the House of Representatives’ Student App Challenge. We applaud the leaders of the House of Representatives who have pledged to inspire students in their districts by hosting Congressional app challenges. We encourage you to join them as they challenge students to compete against each other in app design and programming, and to provide Members of the Congress the opportunity to encourage and recognize the technical and creative talents of their young constituents.

How You Can Get Involved

Members of Congress:

The House Student App Challenge is open to any House Congressional district. The Member must opt-in for their district to participate in this competition. To participate, Members can opt-in by sending an email to [email protected]. Visit studentappchallenge.house.gov for more details.

Students:

On Saturday, February 1st, the ChallengePost.com site for the House Student App Challenge will go live. Students can visit ChallengePost any time before April 30th to submit their contact information, the completed student release form, and their final app entry.

The House Student App Challenge is open to all high school students in participating districts. Students entering the competition must submit their app’s source code online during the Competition Submission Period between 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time on February 1^st, 2014, and 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time on April 30^th, 2014. You can check your district’s eligibility using the form at studentappchallenge.house.gov.

Private Sector:

Members of the private sector, including companies, educators, and citizens, can get involved in a variety of ways by first encouraging Members of the House to opt their districts in to the House Student App Challenge.

Contact your Representative and urge them to support STEM and computer science education by hosting a district App Challenge. Tweet your Representative with the hashtag #StudentAppChallenge

For more details, visit studentappchallenge.house.gov.

Also, you can join the Congressional App Challenge Coalition, a private sector coalition of organizations that serves as the official STEM advisor to the House Student App Challenge. Contact Tim Lordan at [email protected] to see how you can get involved.

Congressional App Challenge Coalition 2014 Sponsors

Congressional App Challenge Coalition

1634 I Street NW – Suite 1100 – Washington, DC 20006

www.congressionalappchallenge.us/

Find us on Twitter, #HouseAppChallenge

Tuesday is the State of the Net Conference and our agenda is complete. You can view the full agenda on your laptop or your mobile device here: stateofthenet2014.sched.org.

This year’s slate of keynotes and panels is the among the best @SOTN Agendas ever in its 10 year history. There are a few tickets are still available. Don’t miss your chance to register.

This year’s keynotes include:

Visit the SOTN14 agenda at stateofthenet2014.sched.org for a full list of panel topics and speakers.

Tickets are still available. Don’t miss your chance to register.

Please follow us on Twitter @SOTN, and don’t forget to tweet #SOTN14!

We look forward to seeing you at State of the Net 2014!

Thank you,

The State of the Net Organizing Committee

State of the Net
hosted by the Internet Education Foundation
1634 I Street NW – Suite 1100 – Washington, DC 20006
www.Stateofthe.Net
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Mark your calendars and Register Now for the 5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum.

The 5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference will feature influential policymakers and policy experts who will debate the looming issues relating to the mobile Internet including:

• The Honorable Jason Chaffetz, Member, U.S. House of Representatives [bio]
• The Honorable Hank Johnson, Member, U.S. House of Representatives [bio] *
• Brian Chase, General Counsel, Foursquare Labs Inc. [bio]
• Derek Khanna, Contributor for National Review, Human Events, Forbes & the Altantic [bio]
• Travis LeBlanc, Special Assistant Attorney General of California [bio]
• Alex Linde, Vice President Mobile & Digital Apps, The Weather Company [bio] *
• Mehul Nagrani, SVP Digital Operations, Univision [bio] *
• And many more. Speakers will be announced on a rolling basis.

* Subject to scheduling

WHAT: 5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference
WHEN: Thursday, May 9, 2013

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM: Keynotes and Panels
5:00 PM: Cocktail Reception
WHERE: Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, 144 Constitution Ave NE Washington, DC 20002
(On Capitol Hill, directly north of the Dirksen Senate Office Building)
TWITTER: @NetCaucusAC #SOTMN

At the start of every new session of Congress, the Internet community comes together at the State of the Net Conference to discuss, debate and network around the major Internet policy issues challenging lawmakers on Capitol Hill. In an era stained by rancorous politics, the State of the Net has neither violence nor violent agreement — just passionate debates about important Internet issues.

Join the members of the impartial and bipartisan Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee as it hosts the 9th Annual State of the Net on Capitol Hill on January 22-23, 2013. The agenda is now posted. The conference will feature a keynote luncheon discussion between Travis Kalanick, CEO & Co-Founder, Uber, and Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Co-Chair, Congressional Internet Caucus. Additional speakers and keynotes are being confirmed on a rolling basis to assure a balanced assortment of perspectives.

Policymakers come together for State of the Net 2013 just weeks after the new Congress is sworn-in and one day after the presidential inauguration. After a year of Congressional debate on issues like cybersecurity, intellectual property and everything in between, it remains an open question how the government will move forward on issues critical to the Internet, which the conference will shed light upon. The second day of State of the Net will feature “The Internet Leadership Challenge,” an afternoon of discussions and presentations detailing how the Internet platform can restore America to economic greatness. Please see the evolving agenda here.

Online registration is open — registration is complimentary for all government staff and members of the press and we offer an affordable non-profit and academic rate. The State of the Net Conference is the largest information technology policy conference in the U.S. and the only one with over 50 percent Congressional staff and government policymakers in attendance.

What: 9th Annual State of the Net Conference
When: Tuesday, January 22 – Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Where: Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Twitter: Follow the conference on Twitter – @NetCaucusAC #SOTN

The 2013 State of the Net Conference will feature in-depth discussions with leading Internet policy experts and panel tracks focusing on timely topics such as:

• Congress as NetMusic’s DJ: Is It Spinning the Turntables in the Right Direction for Innovation and Creativity?
• Plumbing the Policy Implications of Data Analytics and Defining “Big Data,” the Year’s Most Overused Term
• Should Congress Rewrite the Telecom Act?
• Big Broadband: What Happens When the Psychology of Abundance Confronts Both the Economics of Deployment and the Rules of Regulators?
• First Sale and No Resale: Could SCOTUS and the Internet Redefine Content Ownership?
• Post-Petraeus: Privacy, Passion, Probable Cause?
• No Rest for the WCIT: Charting An Affirmative Plan to Safeguarding Internet Freedom!
• Cyber Security Legislation, Regulation and Executive Order: Government Officials Discuss
• And the full agenda has much more…

The State of the Net Conference is a widely attended event hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC), part of a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization. The ICAC is a private sector organization comprised of public interest groups, trade associations, non-profits, and industry leaders. The diversity of ICAC membership ensures that all educational events and initiatives are fair and balanced forums for Internet-related discussion. The ICAC does not promote any particular policy position.

About the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee:
The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee is a diverse group of public interest, non-profit and industry groups working to educate the Congress and the public about important Internet-related policy issues. The group seeks to promote the growth and advancement of the Internet, provide a bicameral, bipartisan forum for Internet concerns to be raised, while promoting the education of internet-related issues.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Internet Education Foundation (IEF) today announced that two new members, Rodney Petersen and Daniel J. Weitzner, have joined its board of directors adding to the impressive array of members that provide IEF the unimpeachable balance that is the hallmark of its programming. Weitzner, who co-founded IEF as an original board member, rejoins the board after an impressive stint at NTIA and the White House. Rodney Petersen is a respected IT security academic and professional working for the premier higher education IT non-profit EDUCAUSE.

Petersen and Weitzner will contribute to the diverse group of board members of IEF, the NGO that runs the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC), The State of the Net Conferences and GetNetWise. The neutrality and balance of IEF, ensured by its board of directors, make these projects universally respected.

Contact:
Eric Hinkes
[email protected]
(202) 638-4370 x127

About:

Rodney Petersen

Rodney Petersen is Managing Director of the EDUCAUSE Washington Office and a Senior Government Relations Officer. He also directs the EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity Initiative and is the lead staff liaison for the Higher Education Information Security Council. Prior to joining EDUCAUSE, he served as the Director of IT Policy and Planning in the Office of the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Maryland. He previously held the position of Campus Compliance Officer in the Office of the President at the University of Maryland where he mediated disputes and handled grievances under the Human Relations Code, including claims of discrimination or harassment that increasingly involved misuse of the Internet. He also completed one year of service as an Instructor in the Academy for Community Service for AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps where he taught alternative dispute resolution and facilitated service learning projects. He began his professional career in higher education as the Resident Student Life Director at Michigan State University. He is the co-editor of a book in the EDUCAUSE Leadership Strategy Series entitled “Computer and Network Security in Higher Education”. He is also a founding member of the Association of College and University Policy Administrators and the author of “A Primer on Policy Development for Institutions of Higher Education” and “A Framework for IT Policy Development”. He writes and speaks regularly on topics related to higher education cyber law and policy. He received his law degree from Wake Forest University. He also received a certificate as an Advanced Graduate Specialist in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration from the University of Maryland.

Daniel J. Weitzner

Daniel J. Weitzner is the Director and co-founder of the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group. His group studies the relationship between network architecture and public policy, and develops new Web architectures to meet policy challenges such as privacy and intellectual property rights. He teaches Internet public policy in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.

From 2011-2012, Weitzner was the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House, where he led initiatives on online privacy, cybersecurity, Internet copyright, and trade policies to promote the free flow of information. He also was Associate Administrator for Policy at the United States Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Weitzner was also a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.

Weitzner has been a leader in the development of Internet public policy from its inception, making fundamental contributions to the successful fight for strong online free expression protection in the United States Supreme Court, crafting laws that control government surveillance of email and web browsing data. His work on US legislation limiting the liability of Internet Service Providers created the legal foundation for social media services and global free flow of information online.

Weitzner’s computer science research introduced Accountable Systems architecture to enable better awareness legal rules and automated compliance auditing. As head of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Technology and Society group, he also led the development of security and privacy standards, and new architectures used to make information on the Web easier to analyze. While at MIT, he launched the Web Science Research Initiative with Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt and James Hendler, a cross-disciplinary research initiative promoting research on the technical and social impact of the Web.

Before joining MIT, Weitzner was a founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has testified before the United States Congress, the European Commission, and leading international bodies. Weitzner has law degree from Buffalo Law School, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. His writings have appeared in Science magazine, the Yale Law Review, Communications of the ACM, the Washington Post, Wired Magazine and Social Research. In 2012 he was named to the Newsweek/Daily Beast Digital Power Index as a top ‘Navigator’ of global Internet public policy.