The technology industry is starting to recognize that they need skilled, trained workers who can step right into a job with no or minimal company training. Traditional in-school training programs like high school shop or auto repair classes are dead. Granite Hills presently has seven computer laboratories and several hundreds computers. Nearly 3,000 computers will be in use shortly in 40-50 high schools in the San Diego area. The North County Educational Consortium, which consists of 34 K-12 and community college districts in the San Diego area, chose Tangent Computer of Burlingame, CA, as its preferred supplier after looking at numerous hardware manufacturers.
Tangent is a leader in desktop, workstation, and server sales to education and government.
Mike Zabaneh, COO of Tangent, said it's becoming increasingly difficult to find skilled workers, particularly in networking. This kind of program would help us tremendously because we could hire a worker who is trained on the latest operating systems and is certified by our vendors, such as Intel and Microsoft. Other product names are either trademarks or trade names of their respective holders.