{"id":54931,"date":"2024-12-04T08:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=54931"},"modified":"2024-12-04T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:50:45","slug":"dccc-student-awarded-5000-lockheed-martin-vocational-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=54931","title":{"rendered":"DCCC student awarded $5,000 Lockheed Martin Vocational Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ayisha Barrie<\/p><\/div>\n

Delaware County Community College student Ayisha Barrie of Secane, a dual major in Cloud Computing and Cyber Security, has received a $5,000 Lockheed Martin Scholarship and a full-time job offer through Lockheed Martin Space\u2019s Software Associate Degree Program. Additionally, Barrie has been accepted into the company\u2019s Software Associate Degree Program (SWAP), a three-year development program designed to attract, develop, and retain early-career technical professionals in software and cyber-related careers.<\/p>\n

Students are accepted into the SWAP program before they graduate with their associate degree to receive on-the-job training, accelerate the clearance process and be ready to join Lockheed Martin full time after graduation.<\/p>\n

Born in Sierra Leone and raised in Guinea and the U.S., Barrie is a graduate of Academy Park High School. After a rocky college start\u2014she was juggling a full-time, graveyard-shift job and single-parenting two young children simultaneously with her studies\u2014 \u201cI decided to change my strategy. I started communicating, reaching out, and connecting with people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A first-generation college student, Barrie attributes her success to the guidance she has found through the College\u2019s Office of First-Generation Student Success, Office of Student Employment and Co-op Services, and the Computer Science program. At DCCC, she discovered her aptitude for Computer Science and learned more about the opportunities in the field. The Student Employment Office also helped her land an IT internship at Independence Mission schools in preparation for her work at Lockheed Martin. She is vice president of DCCC\u2019s Multicultural Club, a member of the Muslim Student Association, and the founder of the DCCC Women\u2019s Soccer Club.<\/p>\n

Barrie is fluent in several languages and her goal is to become a software engineering programmer and pursue a Ph.D. She offers the following advice for new college students who are also juggling work and family responsibilities with their studies: \u201cNo matter how hard it is, never give up. Failure is part of success. One day you are going to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

DCCC\u2019s Cloud Computing<\/a>\u00a0associate degree program prepares students for employment in Cloud Computing fields such as Cloud Administration, Cloud Development, Security, Architecture, Cloud Data Management, DevOps, and Machine Learning.\u00a0Students can tailor part of the curricula to match one of two professional pathways:\u00a0Cloud Engineer\/Architect and Cloud Software Developer. The College also offers a Certificate of Proficiency<\/a> in Cloud Computing.\u00a0 DCCC\u2019s Cybersecurity<\/a>associate degree program prepares students for employment as Cyber, Network, or Computer information security specialists. The Cyber Security Certificate of Competency<\/a> prepares students to identify security threats to networked computers, devices, and their data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delaware County Community College student Ayisha Barrie of Secane, a dual major in Cloud Computing and Cyber Security, has received a $5,000 Lockheed Martin Scholarship and a full-time job offer through Lockheed Martin Space\u2019s Software Associate Degree Program. Additionally, Barrie has been accepted into the company\u2019s Software Associate Degree Program (SWAP), a three-year development program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7722,15890],"class_list":["post-54931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-delaware-county-community-college","tag-lockheed-martin-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54932,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54931\/revisions\/54932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}