Don Stankalis

A native Long Islander, Don Stankalis was born in Rockville Centre and moved to Brooklyn in 2007.

Don spent almost a quarter of a century honing his skills in personal computers, multimedia, and web page creation at the New York Institute of Technology and then a member of the staff of the Academic Computer Laboratory in the Dorothy Schure Old Westbury Campus. Don was also an instructor at the Horizon weekend and Summer program also at the Old Westbury Campus. He transferred to the Technology Based Learning Systems department at the Central Islip Campus in 1990 and worked until the year 2000, when he started at SUNY Downstate.

It's not often that someone gets a front ticket to a revolution, but Don was front and center for four revolutionary events during his tenure at NYIT: The dawn of the personal computer which gave everyone the power of simple and complex computations, Desktop Publishing which gave everyone the ability to create professional-looking documents, Multimedia which gave everyone the ability to edit and create videotapes as well as computer-based presentations, and The Internet which gave everyone the ability to access unlimited information.

Don's love of computers and model rocketry have taken him to many interesting places, including being an instructor at the New York Hall of Science, and a lecturer at MIT's last annual Model Rocket Convention. He is a long-time adult leader in the Boy Scouts of America, and was presented the Silver Beaver Award in 2004.

BS, Computer Science, New York Institute of Technology, 1991

MS, Instructional Technology, New York Institute of Technology, 1995