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• Positions Howard County Library System (HCLS) as a major component of public education for all ages
• Effectively lives the Seven Pillars of HCLS' strategic plan (Authentic Values, Strategic Vocabulary, Everyone a Leader, Winning Teamwork, Community Partnerships, The Power of Us, and Fiercely Loyal Customers) motivating others to do so as well
• Fully embraces HCLS’ educational mission, effectively communicating our curriculum, which comprises Three Pillars (Self-Directed Education, Research Assistance & Instruction, Instructive & Enlightening Experiences)

• Leads STEM projects that are focused on digital media
• Promotes the HiTech STEM digital learning lab collaborative and youth-focused methodology
• Encourages youth to explore the technologies and space around them
• Assists students with ideas, as well as exploring and using technology
• Provides hands-on support of software and hardware tools to enable students to create videos, animations, and games
• Assists students in video and animations production
• Researches and troubleshoots digital production issues and responds to (youth) customers
• Provides recommendations for continuous improvement of processes
• Collaborates with youth and staff to update websites and blogs
• Remains current on network and system procedures, updates and routines
• Collaborates with co-workers, consultant and youth
• Moderates group on-line environment
• Regularly performs other duties as assigned
• Participates in professional training and development
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance
• Adheres to all policies and procedures
  

• Pursuing or Earned Four-year college degree
• People skills – ability to work effectively with others and enjoy it
• Demonstrated interest in working with teens and tweens
• Demonstrated experience instructing and/or training teens
• Experience with music and/or video production
• Exemplifies extraordinary customer service skills and professional attitude
• Strong attention to detail and high degree of speed and accuracy
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective, collaborative working relationships
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information in layman’s terms to youth customers
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve problems, to develop new processes and procedures in response to changing customer expectations and system-wide goals
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Experience troubleshooting hardware and software
• Experience updating web pages and creating online and/or mobile tools
• Experience with digital design and graphics art tools
• Experience in windows (PC/MAC), and Linux
• Current valid driver’s license

• Job allows for some variance in work routine and considerable amounts of standing, walking, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling and sitting
• In addition, strenuous activity is required, such as carrying bags or boxes of books (weighing up to 30 lbs.) or arranging rooms for classes and events.

• Grade 9; systemwide position(s) located initially chiefly at the Savage Branch
• Works under the supervision of the Grant Project Manager(s) & Director of IT
• Part-time: 20 hours/week, typically Monday through Friday from 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm, weekends periodically required
• May be required to participate in LATI

• To apply for this position, please fill out an application available at www.HCLibrary.org (click on Employment at the bottom of the page).
• HCLS staff members may complete the internal application on SI.
• Please deliver your application to:

Howard County Library System takes pride in providing
equal employment opportunities.

Housing Selection deadlines are approaching:

March 28th - deadline to apply for Walker Avenue Apartments

March 31st - deadline to submit on-line license for RL housing for the upcoming year

These deadlines are important to secure your on-campus housing space for next year so please plan accordingly!

Take a virtual tour of a residence hall space to help you decide where you'd like to live: watch video here!

On Saturday, March 3^rd, UMBC’s first ever Iron Chef competition took place in the Commons kitchen. Four teams, each composed of four UMBC students and a Chartwells chef, took to the cutting boards to prepare an appetizer, entree, and a dessert. A plethora of ingredients were available from the pantry in addition to the secret ingredients that had to be included in each dish. The secret ingredients were dates, goat cheese, duck, leeks, red potatoes, lentils, pineapple, coconut milk, ginger, and every team had to use oatmeal.

Team Funnest Friends consisted of Kyle Matty, Taylor Gaines, David Eastman, and Jon Stefkovich.

Team Pi Kapp was Dylan Cook, Chad Yan, Nathan Rehr, and Shane McNeil.

Team Lambda Chi was made up of Alan Ghandi, Andres Camacho, Mike Calos, and Ian Jones.

Team Chemistry was composed of Shail Thakker, Yiannis Balanos, Bethanie Liu, Andrew Dillon.

The competition was taped and will be edited for a showing on Saturday, March 10^th, in the Sports Zone at 6pm where the winning dishes will be announced. Chartwells will feature these winning recipes in True Grits for dinner so that the student body can enjoy the victors’ creations.

Full descriptions of the teams and a poll where you can vote on which team you think will win can be found here.