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On April 13, 2018, the Resource Center for Students with Children held the PSU’s Bring Your Kids to Campus Day. It was set up as an activity filled experience for [...]

Granulation is the name the CATs have given for a cohort reaching the end of their year plus run with the CAT, learning about system administration and IT organizations while [...]

Yes, if you missed our orientation on Oct 7, our Induction Day is this coming Friday (October 13th, 2017 at 6pm in EB 102. This is when we have our [...]

Yes it's that time of the year again! We're excited to announce that the CAT is hosting it's fourth CAT Barcamp unconference on October 7th. What are Barcamps? Barcamps are [...]

If you are interested in joining the CAT, the 27th CAT Braindump year is about to begin. At 6pm on Friday, October 6 (in EB 102), we will be having [...]

The first time we did this, the response was enthusiastic and overwhelmingly positive. The new CATs were able to ask representatives of past generations about their career paths and decisions, [...]

We held our second (ever) "graduation" ceremony, this time for the NECROMANCERS cohort. (The name stands for No-nothing Excited Computer Runners Of MCECS and Neo-Corporate Empire Recruiters - a backronym [...]

The CATacombs is the sandbox for our budding sysadmins. It gives them a place where they can apply the knowledge they are gaining from the Braindump to hone their skills [...]

The CAT is involved in a variety of projects within the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science. One of them is assisting with MCECS Freshmen Student and Transfer Student [...]

The CAT’s very own Colleen Murphy (nick - Krinkle) recently appeared on the list of “100 Awesome Women In The Open Source Community You Should Know” that was published by [...]