Their trustworthiness and professionalism have earned them the respect of both teachers and students. It makes you feel good to help somebody if they have a problem they can't fix. That keeps me wanting to do more and help more people out. The opportunity to work as a Tech Apprentice has also given students the chance to be good role models for younger students. Abby says that she can see that the younger girls look up to her when she comes in to help fix a computer problem in their classroom.
Society is dominantly male, technology wise.
Seth mentioned that one of the goals he is working toward now is to get Apple Certified. I mean we've already had two computers crash this year and TJ and I fixed them. As for words of advice to other students wanting to reach their level of proficiency, they all agreed that experience is key to learning how to work with and troubleshoot computers. You have to learn things yourself. You have to teach yourself a lot of things.