Hello everyone! My name is Gavin Stanley and I am currently a sophomore at FHSU. My plan is to graduate next spring with a Bachelor of Science in Information Networking & Telecommunication with a concentration in Computer Networking and Telecommunications.

I grew up in a small town about 30 minutes north of Dodge City called Jetmore. In high school, I spent a lot of time playing sports hanging out with friends. A lot of interests now revolve around sports. I am a life-long Kansas basketball and New England Patriots fan. More recently I have gotten interested in soccer, I didn’t want to be deemed a bandwagon fan so I picked a team completely at random. That just so happened to be the most successful club in England’s history, Manchester United. My hope for the future is that I can move back to Jetmore and get a job in the IT field. I initially got interested in IT when a few summers ago I got an internship at our local ISP. Although I just painted fences the first summer every summer since I have taken on more informatic-related tasks. For example, the past summer me and a full-time employee were responsible for going house-to-house and cutting over customers’ old equipment for the new stuff.

Something that has always piqued my interest is ubiquitous computing and what the future of it looks like. The involvement of technology in our personal lives is only increasing and for a lot of people is already essential. Soon technology could affect us so much that it touches every aspect of our lives at all times.