Planning for life after high school

Posted by Alex on 05/10/12 under Graduating Class

As my school year comes quickly to a close a lot is going on, including finding roommates for my apartment next year, registering for classes at Columbus State, and participating in the National Technical Honors Society induction ceremony. I have been accepted into Columbus State's Pathway to OSU P3 program which will allow me access to OSU's facilities while I am at Columbus State. 

In addition to doing schoolwork, I am still working a lot at Meijer. I will be taking a leave of absence there soon because I will be going to New Mexico to be a Photo Lab Technician for three months. I am both very excited and very nervous to be going there. I think of this job as both an adventure and a new phase in my life.

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Senior Gallery Event

Posted by Shane on 04/27/12 under Information Technology

As we're coming up on the end of the year, our lab is getting ready for something known as a Senior Gallery Event. All of the seniors in our lab gather up some of their best work from the past two years, and get it ready to present at this event. This is a great chance for everyone to showcase their work, and for the community to come and look at what we have done.

For this event next month, I have made a website that shows a portfolio and description of all of the websites I have made, and have been printing poster size pictures of some of the photos I have taken. Some other students are doing video portfolio reels, tutorials, or even new client projects to add to their portfolio.

Nationals!

Posted by Shane on 04/04/12 under Information Technology

We did it! You've seen me write a lot about a competition my team is in called Business Professionals of America (BPA), and at our state competition a couple of weeks ago, we placed first in the state of Ohio.

That means that we get to go to Nationals later this month, which is held in Chicago! But we're not done yet, we still have a lot of work to do. Part of this includes taking the feedback from the States judges, and improving our site and presentation. Nationals is in about 3 weeks, so we have from now until then to perfect our presentation and get everything ready!

Getting to participate at Nationals is a big deal, and we are all putting a lot of work into everything we do.

Looking Ahead and Remembering the Past

Posted by Alex on 04/03/12 under Information Technology

Last week was my spring break and although I had spring break at both the Career Center and at my home school I was very very busy (and stressed! lol). Yes, I worked very hard last week doing a 30 hour week at Meijer, and I also came in to the Career Center a couple of days last week to help our Technology Support guy, Nate Bowers, with some networking stuff. 

We had enough time to work with my Spiceworks server and tried to get it working with our workstations. Spiceworks is a free network management tool that helps me see what each computer has on it. For example, on computer xy I can see if they have a certain amount of space left of their hard drive or a bunch of other stuff. I can also configure Spiceworks to have a help desk for the media students.

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