CEDIA announces new course dates for CIT school

CEDIA has announced new course dates for its Cabling and Infrastructure Technician (CIT) School. On September 20, there will be a classroom-based course at its St Neots HQ, with a hybrid course scheduled for October 4.

Launched in March this year, the school is targeted at newly hired employees and technicians keen to pursue professional certification. The hybrid course combines both online and on-site elements, including the basics of electricity, jobsite safety, project documentation, tools, cable, and cable properties, as well as the pre-wire and first fix phases of projects.

Students learn how to safely and effectively follow directions to install, terminate, and verify cabling in both new construction and retrofit environments.

Featuring five self-paced modules, the online portion of this course’s content provides the foundational knowledge required to begin working as a technician, installing cabling and infrastructure to support integrated communications and entertainment systems in the home.

The in-person sessions call on the technical knowledge from the CEDIA Academy. This 3-day course involves hands-on activities that are designed to give a feel for those on-the-job tasks. The final portion of the CIT hybrid school is completion of the CEDIA Cabling and Infrastructure Technician certification exam.

Tom Winters of Smart Spark Solutions recently completed the hybrid course in the UK and found the course invaluable in progressing his career.

“The online units were a great way of familiarising myself with the basics before attending the face-to-face classes,” he said. “As you’d expect, I learnt more from the in-person training, but having the online units to complete first, gave me a great foundation of understanding, which allowed me to feel ready for the classes.

“Geoff Meads was incredibly knowledgeable on all topics covered in the course and was an enthusiastic trainer who brought a ton of energy to each day, making it a fun experience. Geoff managed the different levels of knowledge of each attendee really well. I was probably the least experienced on the course and appreciated that he still went over every topic in detail so that I gained the understanding that I required.

Winters has now registered for the Integrated Systems Technician (IST) School to make the next step following on from his completion of the CIT course and exam.

For more, visit CEDIA online.