You would like this class if you are interested in:

• Breaking Stuff to see how it works
• Inventing
• Creating designs on CAD software like Inventor or Solidworks
• Art, Math, Physics

Key things that you will learn in the class:

• Problem-Solving to serve a client
• Troubleshooting your design until it works
• Blueprints detailed enough for someone else to build
• College-level engineering math
• Collaboration with other disciplines
• How structures work

What will you leave the class with:

• The full-circle experience of engineering design: design, analysis and construction.
• Some experience with power tools
• Collaborating with Lemelson-MIT program

Instructor

Charles Richardson

Become a Life Hacker! Design, create and analyze your own products. Create solutions to immediate problems in our community. Allow math and science to give you the power to turn
dreams into reality. Students will work primarily with their hands and brains, but a pencil and paper are useful too. 

You would like these classes if you are interested in:

• Learning how computers and networks provide great opportunities for creativity and innovation
• Building, configuring and working on computers, servers, and networking devices
• Virtualization and Cloud computing with current industry equipment
• Understanding how a person can infiltrate networks and knowing the difference between "white hat" and "black hat"ec hackers

Key things that you learn in the class:

• Machine language conversions in relation to numbering systems such as binary, decimal, and hexadecimal
• Configuring PC (Personal Computer) software components and functions
• Building and configuring secure network environments
• Understanding Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) troubleshooting Model and encapsulation Processes
• Creating and installing standard 568 A and B Category (CAT) 5,5e, and 6 Ethernet cables
• Cisco IOS configuration
• Windows Server installation in a Domain environment.
• Active Directory Domain Services to verify access when a user attempts to connect to a network device
• Network Troubleshooting and Fault isolation

What you can leave these classes with:

• Dual Credit
• Hands-On Equipment Experience
• Industry Certifications that will indicate your transformation from student to an entry level technician

Certifications:

• CompTIA ITF+

• CompTIA A+

• CompTIA Network +

• CompTIA Security +

• CompTIA Project +

• Cisco CCST Networking

• Cisco CCST Cybersecurity

• IT Specialist Networking

• IT Specialist Network Security

• IT Specialist Databases

• IT Specialist Device Configuration and Management

• IT Specialist Cybersecurity

What Jobs could you start with after graduation:

• Help Desk Technician
• System Administrator
• System Analyst
• Database Administrator
• Information Security Analyst
• Cloud Engineer
• PC Support Technician
• IT Technician
• Cybersecurity Technician
• Network Analyst
• PC/Network Support Technician

Instructor

Terrence Ricketts

The PC maintenance, Networking, and Cybersecurity courses provide the foundation for a plethora of positions providing the skills needed to be a well-rounded IT professional. 

PC labs will concentrate on building, repairing computers, Networking labs will design and implement networks based on physical topologies, Cybersecurity labs secure networks in a server-based Domain environment. Labs will progress from simple one day tasks to multi-day real-world scenarios using a team concept structuring resources to perform tasks as deliverables that culminate in the completion of a project based on standard PMP (Project Management Professional) certification guidelines students will understand project organizational structure.

Using the 3 “Cs” of Project Management: Collaboration, Creativity, and Change students can immerse themselves in the project management industry.