Jamison Vandenberg

And he's like, well, whenever I'm in classes and I'm online, I don't like hearing a computer speaker.

I want to be able to hear an actual microphone.

I want the cameras to switch, you know, while people are talking just for the online experience or whatever.

My other student, Kayla, she's like, I want the lighting to be better because the projector just needs some type of help because it's too low of power or we need to start looking at direct to LED.

And she was specking out, you know, Epson direct to LED as a student.

Like that is insane to think.

And she's like, yeah, this 163 inch would look perfect on this wall.

And I'm like, you got an eye for design.

Let's continue this.

So allowing these students to make those calls of like, I think I'd do this actually instead of what you're thinking and challenging their brain to think differently is one of the best things you can do to get into this industry.

So we do a lot of formal training.

A lot of the time it is more free training than paid training because students, obviously, you're already paying an arm and a leg for college.

And I don't want to take away too much of their money by saying, hey, let's go do a CTS because $500 to me might not be as bad, but $500 when I was a student, whoo.

that was like my entire paycheck.

So it's, I don't want to do that.

But like, at the same time, we, we work a lot with Extron.

We work a lot with Q-SYS.

I talked to a lot of my, you know, integrators of like, Hey, when you're on site, can you designate like one hour for your installers just to really give my students tips and tricks of just like what works for them?

What did they do?

And it's, it's been a relationship building with all of my integrators and