More than 40 community college information technology instructors attended this year's Mid-Atlantic Working Connections Summer Institute hosted by the RU College of Science and Technology's information technology department.

The conference offered professional development and educational opportunities for instructors in across Virginia and Maryland. Class topics include business intelligence, using social media tools and media production to engage "generation next," creating games with GameMaker, Unity 3D, HTML/CSS, PHP and MySQL, in addition to a primer on mobile development.