Our local high school has been promoting IT training awareness to its students, to show how prevalent and useful IT systems are in our everyday lives. The point has also been to show useful such training is for finding a job and keeping a job. For example, my son gave a presentation on the IT aspects he saw in use when my husband and I recently got new flooring from Empire Today. The computer graphics that we used to help us envision our Empire Carpet flooring possibilities, along with their speedy ordering process-thanks to IT systems-were so valuable to our purchasing experience; and my son saw that value firsthand. This was a good example for him to see how IT systems affect our lives on a daily basis. I was glad that he could appreciate the efficiency that IT makes possible in our complex world. Our son definitely also likes the arts and sciences, which makes me happy because I want him to be well-rounded. I'm just glad that he also understands how practical it is to have a good grasp of the IT field. In fact I told him that having a strong background in IT training would help him excel in any field that he chooses to focus on and he can appreciate that, thank goodness!