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Finding the Funding
Thursday, July 22  |  2:00PM EDT  |  1:00PM CDT  |  11:00AM PDT
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Device deployments have increased. Technology needs are expanding. State budgets are getting squeezed. What to do? A dialogue on various funding options that can support school needs now and in the future.

Track: Future of Education  |   Location: VirBELA Conference Hall
Panelists
Daylon Reifsteck
Emerging Technology Specialist, DSC
Daylon Reifsteck is an Emerging Technology Specialist for The Douglas Stewart Company. With an expertise in market research and edtech trends, he has researched the K12 and HiEd landscape. His passions include Esports, virtual reality, and fabrication labs. He holds a B.S in economics from UW-Madison and has over two years’ experience in product management.

dreifsteck@dstewart.com
www.dstewart.com
Rita Oates, PhD
President, Oates Associates
Dr. Rita Oates won grants exceeding $10 million while edtech director, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (FL), fourth largest district in the USA. She taught Grant Writing for Edtech at Barry University. As president of Oates Associates, she presented grantwriting webinars for edWeb.net and workshops for CoSN, ISTE, FETC and others.

Dr. Patty LeBlanc
Professor of Education, Southeastern University
A classroom teacher before entering higher education, Dr. LeBlanc taught at Barry University and Stetson University, where she was awarded $7.5 million in grants from the US Department of Education. Dr. LeBlanc currently serves at Southeastern University where she teaches doctoral students and serves on dissertation committees.

pbleblanc@seu.edu