Jon Penn could boot up his dad's laptop, sign in and open Paint when he was three years old. At age 11, when his mother, the school librarian, was
given the duties of maintaining the school's computers when the Network Administrator suddenly left his position, Jon stepped in to help his mom and
now, he's got the job and some lofty goals to boot.
Along with school staff, the younger Penn has gotten involved in contributing to school policy on Web access. While blocking access to social
networking sites such as MySpace wasn’t popular with many fellow students, he had to agree the school really didn’t need it.
Penn is now the technical support much of the time on everything from printer jams to setting up an external drive to backing up the school’s most
important server. He was allowed to give a few lessons to his class about basic computers, having his classmates pull out a few components from old
machines.
...[Jon] says he loves testing virtualization software like VMware and wants to obtain “A+ certification” by passing the computer-technician exam
by that name developed by trade group CompTIA. “Hopefully, I can do that this summer,” he says.
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