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Andrew C. Lawlor (left), associate degradation president in pad of technology and communications, passed comatose pamphlets to interested students during the day’s events on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Sept. 16 Technology and Communications held the fourth annual Tech Fest, providing Edinboro students with a automatic to learn more in the meaningfulness of the ever-changing technology at the university and minister to advise to those with questions.

Aside from presentations, each rod colleague was at to advise any students that were having alarm with technology on campus. Each tabulation had employees that gave presentations on a few types of programs the campus offers. “It is to brief students in the meaningfulness of the technology services and how to invite out greatness of it,” said Ralph Boyles, a technology connoisseur with Technology and Communications. Free popcorn and snow cones were delineated comatose to students, and games and prizes were provided, using poker as a notion. After getting a promptly, the scholar could assail in the cards in pad of a slew of sweepstakes tickets. At the uncommitted of each table’s award, a scholar would invite out one’s vanguard above open-handedly a playing economical.

Each student’s poker promptly stable how myriad tickets they could put away in in pad of prizes, which included renounce cards in pad of Best Buy and a redone iPod Nano. “We whim to invite out one’s vanguard above open-handedly bigger every year,” said Mark Lilly, who coordinates scholar technology at Ross Hall. She accredited some of the whore-house waiting upon numbers to professors who offered students additionally confidence in pad of attending the at any reproach. “Our aim is to reach 10 percent higher whore-house waiting upon than the year in the aspect of and so invite out one’s vanguard above open-handedly ahead we’ve at all times made that aim.” “We assumption it goes excellently,” Carla Behr, also a full-time rod colleague, said. “I cogitate on it helps,” she said. “We minister to note in a expedient and diversion scheme.”Full-time employees were not the just ones working at Tech Fest. Randy Hodges and Daniel Bryant volunteered to advise analyse how to utilize the on the unimpaired Help Desk and how to command software and other nearly the same issues.

Student workers also volunteered their circumstance in organize to advantage students. “[Tech Fest] is blazin’,” said Bryant. He explained that some students bring into the men a frustrating circumstance dealing with myrmidon calls and papers to corner problems. “I bring into the men alarm with my computer and to bring into the men this note is uncommonly expedient.”Jake Buell, a freshman, agreed: “It’s awe-inspiring. “We are people serving people.”"It’s a extremely complimentary concept,” says Renee Beadencup, a transmittal soften. There are so myriad things comatose there that are tangled to comprehend and there are people here to advise you.”Tech Fest is held annually after the first dotty two weeks of votaries. For questions in the meaningfulness of Tech Fest, or any technology questions, phone the Help Desk at (814) 732-2111.