Central Campus Students Earn Industry Software Certification
A First for DMPS Students
Des Moines, IA – May 29, 2015 – Recently, students in the Computer Aided Design program and PLTW: Civil Engineering & Architecture were given the opportunity to take the Autodesk Certified User Exam, with the first successful certifications earned by Central Campus CAD student and Hoover High Senior Jamie Malone, CEA students and Lincoln High Senior Eddie Rush, Lincoln High Junior Matthew Walker-Johnson, and Roosevelt High Junior Jakob Sheraden. Jamie earned the Certified User distinction for Autodesk AutoCAD; and Eddie, Matt, and Jakob earned the Certified User distinction for Autodesk Revit Architecture.
Central Campus High School, Des Moines Public Schools, recently announced that it has become a Certiport Authorized Testing Center. Becoming a testing center for Certiport allows Central Campus to increase access to certification exams for a number of industry software packages such as Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft to its students. Additional certification programs will be offered in the future. Currently Central Campus has only offered the exam to its current students, but will soon extend the opportunity to area high schools, post-secondary students, and adults.
From left: Jakob Sheraden, Eddie Rush, matt Walker-Johns, and Instructor Clinton Gadbury 
For more information on Computer Aided Design or PLTW: Civil Engineering & Architecture, please contact Clinton Gadbury at Clinton.gadbury@dmschools.org, or visit centralcampus.dmschools.org.
About Certiport: Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, is the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery and program management services delivered through an expansive network of over 12,000 Certiport Authorized Testing Centers worldwide. Certiport manages a sophisticated portfolio of leading certification programs including: the official Microsoft Office Specialist certification program, the Microsoft Technology Associate certification program, the Microsoft Certified Educator program, the Adobe® Certified Associate certification program, the HP Accredited Technical Associate, the Autodesk Certified User certification program, the Intuit QuickBooks Certified User certification program, and the IC3 Digital Literacy certification. Certiport reliably delivers over three million tests each year throughout the secondary, post-secondary, workforce, and corporate technology markets in more than 148 countries and 27 languages worldwide. For more information, please visit www.certiport.com.
