Hello!
I’m an animation instructor at career training high school and I was wondering if I could get some advice about some of the goals we’ve set to improve our program this year. It would be great to get feedback from professionals working in the industry.
Here are our goals:
- Finding an appropriate certification exam for our program completers.
- Finding ways to attract more girls into the program.
- Increasing the memory in all our systems to 6 GB.
Very soon we will be required to administer some kind of certification exam as a requirement for completion of our program. There is an Autodesk testing facility nearby and we were considering making the Autodesk 2012 Certified Associate Exam a required component of completion in our program. However there is a fee involved and this could be problematic for underprivileged students. I've also heard that we should write our own exam.
We would also like to address imbalance between the genders in all technology fields and are always looking for ways to attract more girls. Any advice in that area would be really great.
We are already in the process of ordering more memory and upgrading all the systems to 6 GB.
Any input or advice on these goals or any other subject would be much appreciated. Thanks so much!