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Alumni tell Granite School Board GTI helped launch careers from nursing to aviation and PlayStation
Summary
Alumni and a staff member told the Granite School Board that the Granite Technical Institute (GTI) offered career-focused classes, internships and hands-on training that they say led to jobs in fields including software/animation, commercial aviation, health care, and manufacturing.
At a meeting of the Granite School Board, several alumni and a GTI staff member described how programs at the Granite Technical Institute (GTI) prepared them for postsecondary study and careers.
"The GTI was sort of the inflection point," said Gary Hanson, a GTI alumnus who attended in 2005–06, describing multimedia and AP programming classes and an internship with SpyHop that he said led to animation classes and, ultimately, a job at PlayStation as a technical artist.
Other alumni described direct pathways into licensed or credentialed work. Isaac Cheromenko said his GTI coursework in 2013–14 "fueled my love for aviation," led…
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