Geek Squad teaches at LRAFB

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This weekend, boys and girls at Little Rock Air Force Base will learn how to build computers. It's part of the Geek Squad Summer Academy, and the hope is the classes will encourage kids to go into technology-related career fields.

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LifeNArkansas - 7/29/2012 2:20 PM

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But first someone needs to teach the Geek Squad.

Layla37 - 7/29/2012 1:30 PM

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I again agree with you AR.Yankee, this is awesome that the LRAFB puts this on and even better that the Geek Squad is apart of it. Technology is the way of the world these days. By the time our young people get to be our age, almost everything will be by computers. The Geek Squad and the LRAFB is giving these children an opportunity to become something and someone when they get older. Provide them with knowledge and skill, even more then some grown adults. Kudos to you and great job...keep up the good work LRAFB and Geek Squad.

ArkansasYankee - 7/29/2012 7:51 AM

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theITguy; I don't think the Geek Squad is teaching them how to work at Best Buy; I look at it as "planting seeds" in young people; seeds that perhaps will grow into college educated adults that contribute in tomorrow's technological world. And after obtaining my Network Admin degree at PTC, this "customer" can fix most hardware and software problems I encounter once the warranty runs out.

theITguy - 7/28/2012 10:54 PM

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I'm all for kids learning about technology, but the Geek Squad? Might as well learn to upsell those "optimizations" and make sure something else breaks to keep the customer coming back for more.

ArkansasYankee - 7/28/2012 9:44 PM

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Any kind of education in this state is a good thing, right?! These young ones may just grow up to be worthwhile citizens that are productive, hard working individuals. Technology related career fields are an ever expanding and changing world; not only important today, but in the future as well. Good for LRAFB.

CptKirksnipple - 7/28/2012 5:01 PM

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And the 19th Comm Squadron does what?! Its about as usefull as Supply and Fuels! Let's take a good look at the GSA store that is attached to supply!

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