San Benito resident and TSTC alumnus Mark Anthony Pinon (proper) evaluations MerchCube, an augmented digital actuality software program, with Annette Gonzalez, a seventh grade English instructor at Lyford Middle School. (Photo by TSTC)
By GABRIEL CANTUTSTC Communication [email protected]
exas State Technical College (TSTC) alumnus Mark Anthony Pinon is pleased with the trajectory that his life has taken, from working within the development trade to presently working with tutorial know-how on the Lyford Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD).
“I collaborate with every campus’s administration in regards to the planning of tutorial know-how that I design,” the San Benito resident stated. “I educate methods and tutorial supplies that teachers use of their school rooms, comparable to MerchCube. With that program, a instructor will select a lesson with their iPad and place a black dice beneath the system’s digicam. Once the thing is detected, an interactive lesson shall be displayed for a pupil to do, comparable to figuring out planets within the photo voltaic system.”
Years in the past Pinon developed an curiosity in researching pc {hardware}, and that grew to become the spark that led him to an schooling at TSTC.
“The Computer Systems Management Technology (now Computer Networking and Systems Administration) program at TSTC’s Harlingen campus supplied programs in preventative upkeep, upgrades and different associated abilities that I needed to achieve,” he stated.
Pinon graduated from TSTC with an Associate of Applied Science diploma in this system in 2013.Three months later, he accepted a job as a full-time copier technician with Dahill Office Technology (now Xerox) in Pharr. “I carried out new service installs that concerned establishing computer systems to print and serviced the mechanical aspect of the copiers,” he stated.
After 4 years of gaining trade expertise, Pinon transitioned to being a full-time pc technician with Lyford CISD in 2017. Two years later he was promoted community technician, and presently he’s an tutorial know-how specialist.
Laura Juarez, chief tutorial officer at Lyford CISD, stated Pinon’s efforts are a vital element of supporting the campus directors with the combination, implementation and extension of classes via using know-how.
“Mark’s expertise on our workforce supplies a wonderful useful resource for our district,” Juarez stated.
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