TCAT Newbern Experience

Before I had applied at TCAT of Newbern, I was lost and without a sense of direction. I went from job to job, and my personal relationships were hectic to say the least. My brother some years before had decided to attend the Machine Tool Technology class at the Newbern campus and I had watched as he was accepted for a job at Nu-core in Blytheville Arkansas. At that point in my life I knew that something needed to change. When I first met with Mr. Eddie Brunswick, I asked what courses in Information Technology were offered in the school. He told me that while he did not teach IT directly, the skills that I would learn would help to build a foundation that would complement any goals that I had. He also reassured me that he would be willing to help me learn after the main course was over.

I had always worked with computers but had never considered how they worked. I found the material fun and engaging. I felt as though I could create anything from the cascading amplifiers used in radios to the IR trip alarm that I made in the class as a side project. I kept asking myself why more people did not do things like this, how many more people were missing out on this great discovery that was given to me, through the instruction of the TCAT Newbern campus. During my stay at the Newbern campus, I placed second in the State for electronics, had achieved my CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Net+, through just ONE class alone. My confidence had grown greatly at the Newbern School but my journey did not end