Imagine, as a student, being empowered with a corporate IT infrastructure in which your development, collaborative, and presentation ideas can be brought to fruition by having access to today’s enterprise technologies. Imagine that, like a working professional, you would have direct access to an entire IT knowledgebase for assistance on how to explore advanced features of technologies. Conceptualize a series of workshops, seminars, and peer mentoring opportunities available to expand your knowledge base, compliment your presentation skills, and sharpen your technical understandings. Well, it exists. It is called 3C.

3C is an innovative classroom infrastructure unique to IST. What makes it distinct is the collegial approach to classroom design brought forward by faculty and students. The premise for 3C was to provide students with a parallel learning environment. 3C provides options and opportunities for students to be successful in their curricular endeavors, while empowering them with a working professional suite of IT resources.

3C consists of server resources such as database backed development and presentation space. In addition, a toolset of collaborative tools enables teams to work more effectively by enhancing communications and the exchange of ideas. 3C also brings the toolsets to you through downloadable software and the 3C Vlabs. Through the Vlabs, students can access software utilized within their classrooms, along with server resources; independent of geographic location. 3C also recognizes that a student can benefit from the creation and retention of previous assignments which can be leveraged in future coursework. For this reason, 3C provides all students with file storage space which will live on until a student graduates.