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Page 4 Name: Ken Spragins Program: Air Conditioning Technology How DID MGT PREPARE you for employment? After retiring from the Navy in 1991,1 bounced around from job to job for about three years while trying to decide what career field I wanted to pur sue. Since I knew I did not want to continue in the same line of work 1 had performed while in the military, 1 knew I would have to retrain for whatever I chose. My oldest daughter was attending the LPN program at MGT and spoke highly of the staff, faculty and the programs offered. 1 decided to visit the campus to see just what they had to offer and what might interest me. The staff in student ser vices was helpful in explaining the different programs offered. After reviewing them all, 1 decided that Air Conditioning Technology offered me the opportunities 1 was looking for. This was great... 1 could go to school and get retrained in an interesting vocation and do it almost for free. The Hope Grant would pay for almost everything. I was able to work part time and attend MGT ACT classes daily. My military training and experience combined with my anticipated training at MGT allowed me to set ultimate goals of teaching at MGT and/or obtaining my Georgia state conditioned air contractors license and opening my own business. My goal was to do this all within five years. I graduated from the Air Conditioning Technology program in September 1995. I had a job waiting for me the day I graduated. I worked for a local air conditioning company as an air conditioning technician for approximately three years. The opportunity to teach air conditioning at MGT became available in April 1998.1 applied for the position and began teaching in June of that same year. Earlier this year I achieved my other goal of obtaining my conditioned air contractors license, which now gives me the opportunity to open my own air conditioning business. It took lots of praying, self discipline, hard work, sacrifice, moral support from my family and friends, and last, but certainly not least, it took MGT ... for without MGT providing the opportunity, none of this would have been possible. A heartfelt thanks goes to all those who are part of this wonderful institution we call Middle Georgia Tech ... for it takes each person working hand-in-hand to make it what it is - “an avenue to suc cess and the fulfillment of dreams.” It certainly has been that for me. Current Employer: Middle Georgia Technical Institute ****** ■Hk HBF ' jESi*sfe m l l9k w muum' wA WMjßt WaHWB Pictured above are the 1998-99 Allied Health Youth Apprentice graduates from Houston County. These YAP students graduated in June with a high school diploma and a technical certificate in Fundamentals of Allied Health from Middle Georgia Technical Institute. Keeping Up With Alumni HI ■ I SH vR jHflj jRPj VB JBB j L, Ji- m O Pictured above are the Youth Apprentice students from Houston and Pulaski Counties who graduated from high school in June 1999. Upon high school gradu ation, these YAP students had completed one-half of the Middle Georgia Technical Institute’s Aircraft Structural Technology diploma program and also par ticipated in an eight-week summer internship program at Northrop Grumman. Ken Spragins W jl 43 Uww igaal' 1 '■' 'HHe mm : -«b|k THANK YOU ... MGT Maintenance and Custodial staff for keep ing our new campus in ‘top notch’ condition. Pictured on the back row (l-r) are Maintenance Supervisor J.D. Tumbow, Brent Yates, John Bennett, Ken Boyiand and Eric Davis. Front row (l-r) are Armegene Evans, Cristita Everding, Elvyn Jacques and Rosey Rosemond. Not pictured are Louis Bryant and Sotera Cliatt. MGT offering new Microsoft academic training program Middle Georgia Technical Institute is now a Microsoft Authorized Academic Training Program (AATP). Institutions that are partners with Microsoft can help full-time and part-time students prepare for jobs that demand proficiency with Microsoft products and technolo gies. Students can find affordable, instructor-led training in the Computer Information Systems program at MGT. Use of the official Microsoft curriculum within this diploma program will help students prepare for Microsoft certification in both the network engineering area and the Microsoft Office user area. ..—MB * ItjßßßifeL. —i——J Pictured above is Cliff Harper, Youth Apprentice Coordinator for Northrop Grumman, and the YAP students from Houston and Pulaski Counties. These junior apprentices participated in their two-week internship at Northrop during the summer. c> CONGRATULA TIONS to the Youth Apprenticeship class Iron' Houstor Peach and Pulaski Counties and Middle Georgia Technical Institute for the 1999-2000 school year.