My name is Vernon T. Brown Jr. and I am a freshman at Elizabeth city state university. I am majoring in industrial technology with a concentration in computer networking. This year I had the privilege of being accepted into the research interest group, of the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research program. While in this program I will be doing my research with the networking team. Here, we will be installing a Polycom telecommunications system, and a grid networking scheme. These technologies will become an indispensable part of communicating research data to different institutions across the world. Installing these technologies using new hardware and software packages will add to my current knowledge. My recent experiences in the program along with my four technical certifications (A+, Net+, MCP, MCSA), will exemplify my collegiate career thereby propelling me into a technical job, and ultimately a graduate level education.