BDPA Southern Minnesota
Business Owner: Board of Directors
BDPA is an international organization with a diverse membership of professionals and students at all levels in the fields of information technology, computer science and related S.T.E.M fields. Members are actively engaged in serving the community through outreach and charting the future of the IT industry.
BDPA was founded in 1975 by Earl Pace and the late David Wimberly to address the underrepresentation of minorities in the field of Information Technology. The organization today has chapters in every major city throughout the United States, thousands of professional and student members and an online community of more than 90,000 people. BDPA, Southern MN is a chapter of National BDPA.
The Southern MN chapter was chartered in May of 1999 in Rochester, MN with 10 members. The first youth computer team competed in 2000 and placed ninth. Since 2003, the Southern MN HSCC team has never placed lower than fourth. The Rochester team set a national record with the most consecutive first place wins in the history of the competition. The students receive academic credit for their work with the local chapter program. The chapter has also won National Developing Chapter of the Year, the Chapter Management Award, the Chapter Membership Award and 1st and 2nd Runner-up for National Chapter of the Year.
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Phone: 507 316-4186
