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I recently discovered Microsoft Sway, and I have become a believer. I don’t mean to knock PowerPoint, but PP presentations can be static, stale, and boring. Sways, on the other hand, are dynamic, artistic, and engaging online stories that make me look like I have serious design skills, when I most decidedly do not.

The director of research technology services for the School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics has one foot in the technical world and the other in the world of clinical research.

Coordinated through the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber) and Pitt Information Technology, CyberCamp is based on the Air Force Association CyberPatriot curriculum. For Pitt Cyber, the program is about more than giving tech-minded high schoolers a good time while exposing them to cybersecurity concepts. It’s also about reaching out to a diverse group of students to raise awareness and create a path to cybersecurity careers, which also helps develop Western PA’s tech industry pipeline.

Learning specialist Balazs Kudelasz spent most of his career working in organizations with a centralized IT department. So when he learned that FIS and CSSD were merging to form Pitt IT, he saw it as a logical decision in the right direction. "There really is no point for the IT function to be decentralized. The whole process flows better—everything is quicker and more streamlined—when we're all one organization," he explained. "It raises everyone's level of expertise." 

When Heather Lego first learned that FIS would be merging with CSSD (now Pitt Digital), she was a little uncertain. Working in FIS Business Solutions, she'd only worked with a couple people who would be become her new coworkers, and she was concerned people would take sides. Instead, Lego was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly the merger went.