Category: Engineering and Computer Science
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Adam Neidlinger
Adam Neidlinger, who studied linguistics, Spanish, French and Portuguese after he graduated high school in 2001, has focused on learning a new language at Wright College – coding. After years of working in retail using the knowledge in interior design he learned at the Art Institute of Indianapolis, Adam was looking for something that would…
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Brian Ortiz
When Brian Ortiz sets a goal, he pursues it – no matter how long it will take him to get there. Born with a heart condition called Ebstein’s Anomaly, Brian must take things a little slower to maintain his health. In 2019, he had surgery that came with complications – but he is pressing on…
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Rachida Belsifar
Although Rachida Belsifar earned a bachelor’s of arts degree as well as a degree in computer management in Morocco, when she moved to the U.S. in 2012, she had to start over with her education. She decided to take classes at Wright College, and graduated in 2017 with her associate degree in computer science. Rachida…
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Amanda Bowers
Memories of building computers with her self-taught dad helped motivate Amanda Bowers to get a degree in computer science after 6 years of working in fast food. Having grown up in Chicago, Amanda lived in Alabama for 10 years before returning to the city she loves. She had two daughters, and then felt as though…
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Chintan Patel
Chintan Patel says that he wouldn’t be where he is today if it weren’t for Wright College. An international student who came to Chicago from India to get his college degree, Chintan decided on Wright College on the advice of his friends, who urged him to start at a community college to save money. Wright…
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Leida Mendoza
When Leida Mendoza arrived in the U.S. from the Philippines in 2011, she was close to getting an engineering degree, but when she got to Chicago in 2016, she wanted to get credentials to get a job as quickly as possible. After some research, she decided that network technology would be a good fit for…
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Yassine Nenni
Yassine emigrated from Algeria in 2008 for better opportunities and to explore the world. His first task was to learn English, so he took classes at Moraine Valley Community College while he lived in the southwest suburbs of Chicago and drove a taxi to support himself. Always interested in the IT field, specifically in networks…
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Maria Rojano
Maria had been a cosmetologist for eight years when she decided she was ready for a career change. Knowing she wanted to study IT, the Humboldt Park native headed to Wright College. “I’m always the go-to person to fix my family and friends’ computers, so I already knew it was something that I was good…
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Omar Alexis Cervantes
Last year, Omar Alexis Cervantes was working in retail as a cashier – now he’s a security technology analyst intern at United Airlines. When Omar graduated from Pritzker College Prep, he spent a year at a four-year college before having to leave for financial reasons. He spent the next year and a half working as…
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Lawrence Larson
Lawrence Larson refused to let the layoffs that hit his tech company, where he’d been working for 14 years, get him down. The 39 year old had been thinking about going back to school, and now that he wasn’t working full time, he enrolled at Wright College. His pursuit of an associate degree at Wright…