We had the honor of hosting a group of students from Franklin High School today as part of Nashville Technology Council’s Traveling Tech Day. The students were just one of several groups visiting technology companies in the area to learn more about what it takes to work in the IT field. It was exciting to meet them and learn about the IT projects they’re working on.
This was a super-talented group of high school seniors. Most are part of the Robotics Club at Franklin High School and are already working on IT-specific projects through that club. It was interesting to learn more about what they’re working on (Good luck, students!) and to see them connecting the dots between what we do here at Advanced Network Solutions and what they’re trying to accomplish.
Students rotated through several opportunities to learn more about the day-to-day requirements of working with a managed IT services provider. Bryan Crawford, our Director of Service Delivery spent some time talking students through the parts of a PC, helping them to understand how all of the parts work together, and then he showed them how easy it is to take one apart. Students enjoyed getting into the inner workings of the machines to find out more about how all the parts work together.
From there, students spent time with Jay Sundberg, the Director of Infrastructure Services, to learn how we help our customers with cloud computing and virtualization. The students are working with some of these technologies, and it was fun to see them realize the skills they are already developing will help them to work in IT positions like those filled by our professional IT staff.
Our Director of Core Services, Peter Lane, spent a few minutes with the students, too, showing them how network monitoring helps our IT tech find and fix minor IT issues before they become major problems.
And Larry Hogg, a Client IT Manager III, walked the students through some basics of how networking works, including what IP addresses do and simple commands to trace a path through a network to discover when access points aren’t working properly.