Reegan Ford apprenticing at Array (photo by Rachel Woolf)Īrray is one of many innovative organizations working with Microsoft’s TechSpark initiative to bring digital skills, economic opportunity and jobs to six communities across America and the Mexican border. ![]() ![]() “I don’t judge people who want to leave Wyoming, but I think it’s more fulfilling to stay here and be part of the solution,” she says. The school gave her an engineering career path she never knew existed - and a reason to stay. “I was really inspired by how he decided to come back to Wyoming and help improve it,” says Ford, who did a coding boot camp at the school and now apprentices there. Then she watched a TEDx talk by Eric “ET” Trowbridge, a dynamo of enthusiasm who’d also been eager to leave Wyoming but later returned to open the Array School of Technology and Design in Cheyenne. ![]() She landed at the University of Wyoming a hundred miles away, studying psychology and mending cattle fences and mowing grass as odd jobs, but she still saw no future that spoke to her. Growing up in Rawlins, Wyoming, Reegan Ford couldn’t see herself working at the state prison, oil refinery or school district, the main employers in the area, and wanted to move far away after high school.
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