Candice Sorley and Jon Thomas Pierce attended the AITP Region 3 Student Conference, hosted by the UT Dallas AITP Student Chapter and the AITP Dallas Chapter, Oct 22-24, 2009.  They competed in two contests: “Applications Programming” and “Microsoft Office Solutions”.  They also attended presentations on “Successful Interview Techniques” by the CIO of USAA, “Windows 7″ by a Microsoft Evangelist (Really, that’s what his business card says!), “The Non-Death of Mainframes” by IBM, and “Career Management” by Argo Inc.  The students and faculty sponsor (Mr. Rich Brozovic) enjoyed a three-on-one lunch in the campus cafeteria on Friday with the Microsoft Evangelist.  McMurry attendees also got to meet the National President of AITP, Deborah Lovell, who happens to be from Region 3 and the Dallas Chapter.