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Students at Boston’s Mildred Avenue K-8 School and Community Center can thank CompTIA’s IT Security Community and the Boston Celtics for help in renovating the center’s computer lab and teen space. With help from the Creating IT Futures Foundation, the IT Security Community donated $5,000 to the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, which allocated the donation to its Player Choice Grant, a grant that allows members of the Celtics roster to vote on where the money should go.

Whether you want to learn about disruptive trends in IT, business transformation or just find sales solutions, you’ll hear secrets straight from the top at the Oct. 21 and 22 IT Services & Support Fall Community Meeting in Philadelphia.

The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts selected CompTIA.org to receive both gold and silver W3 Awards for 2014, the ninth time the awards have been given. Facing competition from 4,000 other entries, CompTIA was honored as a top-performing association site with awards for web writing, the home page and the user experience.

CertMaster came through for an Irish woman studying for her CompTIA A+ exam. Management consultant Olive Brennan Herbst said CompTIA’s new learning tool helped her not only memorize the material; it gave her a full understanding of the material being presented. “It helped me ensure I passed,” she said.

IT instructor Richard Tamme says the combined research from neurobiology, cognitive psychology and game studies used to create CertMaster will help hold students’ interest as they learn. “All those features are used in combination to create a very comprehensive learning tool that will work well for almost any student,” he said.

Combining research and market intelligence with our educational guides and resources, Five Tools to Jumpstart Your Cloud includes a variety of resources to give you a full understanding of this emerging technology, plus related channel trends and developments in the workforce. We’ve bundled complementary tools to make your study in cloud more digestible — a mini roadmap of sorts.

“If people can fix things, more things will get fixed and we can reduce the environmental impact of the IT industry,” said Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, a global community of DIY device fixers. In his talks at Channel Con and CompTIA’s Academy Educator Conference, Wiens shared ways IT pros can disrupt the repair world.

Three leaders from two of our CompTIA communities were among the influential women named to this year’s CRN Power 100, an annual list of female executives whose work in their respective companies and in the industry helps drive channel success.

Sporting a backwards ballcap and a friendly smile, Robert Kosydar looks like your average 22-year-old, but check out his resume and you’ll see he’s advanced far beyond his status as a recent high school graduate. This government contracted server systems administrator earned — in just two short years — six CompTIA certifications.

About 20 ago, Robert Blanchard moved to Aspen for what he thought would be a temporary job —one that instead turned into a long and fulfilling IT career at a destination ski resort. In his decades-long career, he’s seen hundreds of changes in the way technology is used on the hill, from RFID ticketing to software-controlled snowmaking guns.