Carnegie Slate Camps are in-person trainings that are held twice a year ahead of Carnegie Conference and Technolutions' Slate Summit. Each Slate Camp will cover key modules used within Slate, based on the specific theme of that event. During the program, you can expect to develop a solid foundation and understanding of each topic through the execution of trainings and workshops.
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Central Time Location: Belmont University | 1510 Acklen Ave | Nashville, TN 37212-3758 Cost: $400/person
From Queries to AI to Portals, Built for Recruitment through Retention | Whether you’re a daily Slate user building core skills or a recruiter, advisor, or leader looking to leverage Slate further, Carnegie Slate Camp is designed to deliver practical skills you can use immediately. Join us for session tracks that will support you to…
Master Configurable Joins: Gain confidence in building foundational queries, moving from direct filters to more complex subqueries and joins.
Work Smarter, Not Harder: Replace manual follow-ups with automated Cadences and Assignment Lists that ensure no student falls through the cracks.
Build Tools You’ll Actually Use: Leave Camp with a functional, ready-to-use portal designed to give your team a centralized hub for recruitment and retention.
Optimize Slate for the Now + Next: Get the most from out-of-the-box dashboard and record functionality, then use AI enhancements to take your skills to the next level.
Intended Audience: Short answer…everyone! More specifically, Track 1 is a Foundational Track for newer Slate users to build essential skills and confidence. Track 2 is a Technical Track for more experienced users to optimize Slate with advanced configurations, customizations, and enhancements. Track-hopping is welcome (you don’t need to stick to one track all day).
Track 1: Queries Bootcamp - Build your foundational configurable joins queries skills to create efficient, accurate queries using direct filters, exports, and joins.
Track 2: Customizing Slate Dashboards to Work for You - Inclusive of Customizing Record Dashboards, AI Dashboards, and Updating Dashboards with Forms
Track 1: Queries Bootcamp, Continued - Level up your querying skills with advanced joins, table structure insights, and strategic use of subqueries versus main-level joins.
Track 2: Leveraging Cadences and Assignment Lists - Explore best practices and builds for an amazingly useful–and still new(ish)–set of Slate tools.
Track 1: Portals-Adjacent in Slate - Explore the ecosystem around portals (think: SLPs, embedded forms, Deliver, express portals, and AI portals) to create cohesive, portal-like multichannel experiences. Leave with a ready-to-adapt blueprint utilizing portals-adjacent tools as powerful extensions of your portal strategy.
Track 2: User-Scoped Portals - Build a user-scoped portal that empowers you and your team to search and manage students using customized criteria. Suitcases and from-scratch builds mean that you’ll come away with an actual Portal to support work in recruitment, retention, and more.
4:30PM - 5:30PM | Post-Camp Celebration!
You made it! Celebrate the end of Camp with complimentary beer, wine, and small plates only a short walk from campus!
Optional, of course, but we’d love to keep the conversations going.
Tiny Trainings are two-hour virtual trainings that cover a range of timely Slate features. With Slate constantly evolving and providing new avenues for innovative solutions, these bite-sized trainings will keep you informed and help grow your creativity within Slate. Registration is $100 per person.
Bundle pricing available! Register for Queries 101, 201, and 301 using the special Bundled Event below and receive the 401 registration for free!
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026 - Wednesday, November 4, 2026 Location: Virtual Level: Beginner to Advanced
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026 Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Location: Virtual Level: Beginner to Intermediate
This is your true 101 of querying using configurable joins in Slate. Part one of a four-part series in 2026, this session's approach will focus on building foundational query understanding in Slate. We'll begin by defining queries in Slate, navigating the module, and getting settled with some initial configurations. From there, we'll explore direct exports and filters, query settings, and other parts of Slate that queries touch (hint: there are a lot of them!). Additionally, a half hour of this training will be devoted to a workshop where we'll provide questions to answer using queries, so come prepared to build some beginner-friendly queries! Our target audience includes: (1) Anyone trying to convert from Local into Configurable Joins queries, (2) Those new to querying in Slate entirely, and (3) Slate captains and leaders who want to learn ways to teach queries to their staff. Registration is $100 per person, with payment due at time of registration. This event is nonrefundable, but registrations can be transferred to another member of your team and/or credited to a future session.
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern Time Location: Virtual Level: Beginner to Intermediate
In this second part of a four-part series in 2026, we'll use Queries 201 to enter into Slate as relational database. After reviewing the overall structure of Slate behind-the-scenes, we'll look to uncover all the essentials about extended filters and exports in queries. An intentional and slower-paced section on introducing subqueries versus main-level joins will take up a good portion of our agenda (think: What is the difference? When do I use one or the other?). Like our 101 session, a half hour of this training will be devoted to a workshop where we'll provide questions to answer using queries, so come prepared to build some queries! Time permitting, we will explore additional categories and bases. Our target audience includes: (1) Those who attended the 101 session in March, (2) Anyone with a basic understanding of configurable joins queries in Slate who wants to expand their knowledge, and (3) Slate captains and leaders who want to learn ways to teach queries to their staff. Registration is $100 per person, with payment due at time of registration. This event is nonrefundable, but registrations can be transferred to another member of your team and/or credited to a future session.
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2026 Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern Time Location: Virtual Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Join us for our third session in this four-part series as we cross over officially into intermediate and advanced querying. While we'll start with some review on subqueries versus main-level joins, our heavy focus today will be on aggregates and outputs. In particular, we'll discuss one of the most-requested items from Carnegie's 2025 training events: dictionaries. Time permitting and depending on Summit announcements, we'll plan to devote some time to new AI query tools. Like our previous 2026 Tiny Trainings, a half hour of this training will be devoted to a workshop where we'll provide questions to answer using queries, so come prepared to build some queries! Our target audience includes: (1) Those who attended the 201 session in May, (2) Anyone with a solid understanding of configurable joins queries in Slate who wants to explore aggregates and outputs, and (3) Slate captains and leaders who want to learn ways to teach queries to their staff. Registration is $100 per person, with payment due at time of registration. This event is nonrefundable, but registrations can be transferred to another member of your team and/or credited to a future session.
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Location: Virtual Level: Intermediate to Advanced
By popular demand, we are proud to offer this truly advanced queries session as the capstone in our four-part series. Our agenda will focus on a few core concepts: independent subqueries, using SQL responsibly in Slate, data exports in queries, and other advanced use cases. Time permitting, we will also discuss the intersection of advanced queries and portals. Like our previous 2026 Tiny Trainings, a portion of this training will be devoted to a workshop where we'll provide questions to answer using queries, so come prepared to build some advanced queries! Our target audience includes: (1) Those who attended the 301 session in August, (2) Anyone yearning to go deeper and more advanced than traditional queries trainings cover, and (3) Slate captains and leaders are trying to solve very complex problems. Registration is $100 per person, with payment due at time of registration. This event is nonrefundable, but registrations can be transferred to another member of your team and/or credited to a future session.
[Carnegie Slate Camp] was a great experience and I learned a lot that will help us out here at PSU...Those two days with Carnegie alone were worth my trip to Nashville!
— Eddy Lentz Associate Director of Graduate Admissions Enrollment Technology, Portland State University
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— Kristen Minnocci Associate Director of Admissions Communications, Quinnipiac University
I got a lot out of this [Tiny Training] and it certainly helped me as a newbie in Slate to feel more confident in my work. The pace of the class was great and the examples used were relevant and over all I really enjoyed the session...
— Kelsey Dobradi-Zembek Graduate Admissions Recruiter, SUNY University at Binghamton
[Carnegie Slate Camp] was one of the best...the presenter was lively and engaging and the content of the session was first-rate. Now that I am back, I implemented one of the items spoken of already.
— Michael White Enrollment Management & Admission Technology Coordinator, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
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