Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections

波士顿地区技术教育联系（BATEC）是一个发达的区域协调系统，由高中、社区学院、马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校和工业界组成。来自不同背景的有才华的学生被信息技术（IT）职业所吸引，特别是在编程、数据库、分析和商业智能方面。BATEC开发了一系列行业驱动和验证的IT课程，从高中到社区大学，再到信息技术学士学位。国家中心扩展和加强计算机学科路径和行业联系，以培养21世纪的IT专业人才。区域中心在定义IT技术人员在技术和专业上取得成功所需的知识、技能和态度方面所做的工作仍在继续。由于IT在每个行业中都很普遍，因此该目标扩展到了解和实施创新，以提高技术人员在IT和其他领域（如制造、能源管理、执法和健康）的交叉领域工作的能力。国家中心利用与拉斯维加斯、旧金山和芝加哥等城市地区的合作关系作为学习实验室，学习如何扩大波士顿的工作规模。该中心专注于与现有中心和新合作伙伴合作的长期干预措施，并开展有助于持续改进IT， CS和IS计划的研究，以跟上地区和国家的需求。

The Boston Area Technological Education Connections (BATEC) is a well developed regionally coordinated system of high schools, community colleges, the University of Massachusetts at Boston and industry. Talented students from diverse backgrounds are attracted to information technology (IT) careers particularly in - programming, databases, analytics, and business intelligence. BATEC developed a sequence of industry driven and validated IT courses that articulate from high school through community college to a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. The National Center extends and strengthens computing discipline pathways and industry connections to produce 21st century IT professionals. The work that the Regional Center is doing in defining the knowledge, skills and attitudes that IT technicians need to be technically and professionally successful in their employment is continued. Because IT is pervasive in every industry, this goal is extended to learn about and implement innovations that increase technicians' ability to work at the intersection of IT and other fields - such as manufacturing, energy management, law enforcement, and health. The National Center uses partnerships with urban districts in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Chicago as learning laboratories to learn how to scale up the work done in Boston. The Center focuses on longer-term interventions that are collaborative with existing centers and new partners and conducts research that contributes to the continuous improvement of IT, CS and IS programs to keep up with regional and national needs.