Technology Services Calendar
Monday, July 1, 2024
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2024 Research Park Softball League.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
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Join us on Tuesday, July 2 from 12 to 1 p.m. for a lunchtime panel covering breaking into the startup world, working for a startup, and more.
Thursday, July 4, 2024
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Join the Research Park at Houlihan's for Patio Play on Thursdays this spring and summer. Enjoy live music and drink specials from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Monday, July 8, 2024
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2024 Research Park Softball League.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
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Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 9 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for our "Addressing Conflict in Teams" with Joy Das in the EnterpriseWorks Atrium.
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In this 2-hour instructor led workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. We will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them. Pre-registration required
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Which company will win the coveted golden paddle? Could it be yours? Sign up for one of the year's most anticipated events in Research Park: The 13th Annual Table Tennis Tournament.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
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Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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Join the NCSA Quantum Computing Interest Group for the next NCSA Quantum Computing Task Force meeting. Discussion on "Q for Quantum - Overview of Quantum Concepts" led by NCSA Senior Technical Program Manager Dan LaPine.
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Which company will win the coveted golden paddle? Could it be yours? Sign up for one of the year's most anticipated events in Research Park: The 13th Annual Table Tennis Tournament.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
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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.
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Join the Research Park at Houlihan's for Patio Play on Thursdays this spring and summer. Enjoy live music and drink specials from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Friday, July 12, 2024
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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.
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Join the AI User Group on Friday, July 12 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Monday, July 15, 2024
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2024 Research Park Softball League.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
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This program provides new employees at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois an overview of IT services that are critical to success on campus. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the scheduled sessions. Offered at no cost to faculty/staff/students of the University of Illinois. New and current employees are invited to attend.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 16 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for "Building Creative Confidence" with Miriam Salah in the EnterpriseWorks Atrium.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
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The Research Park at the University of Illinois will host the Illinois tour stop – an outreach effort that connects innovators and entrepreneurs to non-dilutive, technology funding opportunities provided through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, known as “America’s Seed Fund.”
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Creating, storing, and updating organizational charts can be a time-consuming task. Using software that is designed for visualizing information aids the process. Visio can even generate a diagram that adds the shapes and connectors for you from data that is stored in an Excel workbook. In this workshop attendees will create simple org charts, and pull from excel.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Illustrator. Pre-registration required.
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Join us for our monthly “Fire At Five” Happy Hour to network with other interns and professionals who work in the Research Park on Thursday, July 18, 2024, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio and Lawn.
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Join the Research Park at Houlihan's for Patio Play on Thursdays this spring and summer. Enjoy live music and drink specials from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Friday, July 19, 2024
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This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Monday, July 22, 2024
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2024 Research Park Softball League.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
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Join us on Tuesday, July 23 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for a panel on "Maximizing Your Internship for Your Future Career" in the EnterpriseWorks Atrium.
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Join us in a hybrid session where we will discuss best practices for setting up a Teams online meeting as well as joining the meeting. We'll cover the capabilities of meetings in Teams in addition to requirements and planning considerations for Teams. This session is aimed for beginner users of Teams. Pre-registration required.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
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In this 2-hour instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.
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Celebrate National Intern Day one day early by joining us on Wednesday, July 24 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at EnterpriseWorks for a community service event. Interns from all across Research Park are invited to donate clothing to Strides Shelter and make cards for Carle Hospital patients.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
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This 2-hour Outlook Calendar workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.
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Join us to recognize and celebrate the amazing work of student interns working in the Research Park. Everyone in the Research Park is welcome to join us for a picnic and the intern awards. Sign up to attend our annual Research Park Intern Awards on July 25 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM on the Atkins Patio.
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Join the Research Park at Houlihan's for Patio Play on Thursdays this spring and summer. Enjoy live music and drink specials from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Friday, July 26, 2024
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop
Monday, July 29, 2024
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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.
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Come out and support your company's team at the 2024 Research Park Softball League.
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Join us for the Research Park Softball Social on Monday, July 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Zahnd Park's North Field. We will have food, drinks, the first place trophy presentation, and hitting, running, and throwing contests.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Offered in-person or online. Pre-registration required
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Research Park is hosting our Annual Blood Drive on Tuesday, July 30 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the EnterpriseWorks Lot.
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Join us in an instructor-led session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Pre-registration required; no walk-ins please.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
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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.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Friday, August 2, 2024
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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.