The Siemon Company is sponsoring students from the Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center as they travel to Orlando's Orange County Convention Center to participate in the Association for Career and Technical Education Cabling Lab at this year's Tech Expo.
The technology center is based in Lubbock, TX.
The Cabling Lab, sponsored by C-Tech and co-sponsored by Program Recognizers, features students demonstrating the skills learned in C-Tech's programs to wire the lab for communications networks with both copper and optical fiber cabling.
The lab will represent both commercial and residential installations. The commercial side will consist of two Category 5e and two fiber drops to each workstation. The residential side, featuring products from the Siemon residential cabling product line, will consist of two Category 5e, two coaxial and two fiber drops to each "room."
The Siemon Company has teamed with C-Tech as a Program Recognizer and is an avid supporter of the technology training that C-Tech is providing to second/post-secondary educational institutions, private training schools, US Job Corps centers and other training facilities across the country.
"We are very excited about providing these students from Byron Martin with this wonderful opportunity to showcase the skills they learned while earning their Network Cabling Specialist certification," says Michael Clemens, Siemon's global manager of marketing communications. "The Cabling Lab is an innovative way of demonstrating the value of the training being taught in today's schools.
"When C-Tech presented us with the opportunity to support the students, the ACTE and our partner, we moved quickly," Clemens continues. "Students are not presented with opportunities like this very often and Siemon is excited about being an active participant in this event."
Ken Lowenstein, C-Tech's director of marketing, is working closely with the ACTE to ensure the success of the event.
"As the sponsor of the Cabling Lab, we reached out and received support from our industry partners," explains Lowenstein. "We are grateful to Siemon not only for their financial support of the students, but for the equipment they have donated including their line of residential cabling products."
The Siemon Company, which manufactures network cabling systems, is based in Watertown CT. For more information visit www.siemon.com.