Technology Services Calendar

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    • Champaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820

    Join us on Tuesday, June 10 from 2-3 p.m. for a workshop on Mastering Instagram Reels - An Interactive Walkthrough at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.

    • 3:00 - 4:55 pm   Tue afternoon
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

    • 10:00 - 11:55 am   Wed morning
    • 330 Armory or online

    In this 2-hour instructor-led workshop, participants will learn how to use Adobe Express (Adobe's online design tool) to create social media posts, customize photos, create a flyer and use the new Generative AI tools. No prior knowledge of Adobe Express is required. Pre-registration required.

    • 10:15 am - 12:00 pm
    • Room 1040, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Join us at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for an Academic Writing Workshop this June to learn about communicating science to policymakers, how to build an engaging poster presentation and citation management. This workshop is sponsored by NCSA’s Software Working Group. Light refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees.

    • 1:00 - 2:45 pm

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Friday, June 13, 2025

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, June 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.

    • 3:00 - 3:30 pm
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 3 p.m., join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of the different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.

Monday, June 16, 2025

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Friday, June 20, 2025

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

Monday, June 23, 2025

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Friday, June 27, 2025

Monday, June 30, 2025

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

    • 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Join us on Wednesday, July 9 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for the Research Park Blood Drive at EnterpriseWorks.

    • 1:30 - 2:30 pm
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    You will want to set fair, clear, and manageable course policies that you can explain and defend the entire semester. In this session, we'll identify a few questions you need to answer to have good course policies, and then you will create policies that are consistent with your course design so far.

    • 2:45 - 3:45 pm
    • 1302 Everitt Laboratory

    This workshop ties the topics of the previous workshops together by discussing and crafting a syllabus for your newly designed course. We focus on the necessary logistical information for the syllabus, items to include to set student expectations, syllabus language and tone, and how to craft a course schedule with assessments, readings, and other ancillary materials.

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Friday, July 11, 2025

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month. 

    • 10:00 - 11:00 am

    Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.

Monday, July 14, 2025

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Friday, July 18, 2025

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

Monday, July 21, 2025

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Friday, July 25, 2025

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Friday, August 1, 2025

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month. 

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Monday, August 18, 2025

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

    • 8:00 - 9:30 am
    • Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)

    Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, August 20 at the Illinois Conference Center.

    • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

    Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Friday, August 22, 2025

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

    • 2:00 - 3:30 pm

    Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065

Friday, September 5, 2025

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month. 

Friday, September 12, 2025

Friday, September 19, 2025

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Friday, September 26, 2025

Friday, October 3, 2025

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month. 

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Friday, October 17, 2025

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign

    This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

    • 8:00 - 9:30 am
    • Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)

    Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 22 at the Illinois Conference Center.

Friday, October 24, 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Friday, November 7, 2025

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month. 

Friday, November 14, 2025

Friday, November 21, 2025

Friday, December 5, 2025

    • 9:00 - 10:00 am
    • EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive

    Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month. 

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

    • 8:00 - 9:30 am
    • Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)

    Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, December 10 at the Illinois Conference Center.

Friday, December 12, 2025

Friday, December 19, 2025