Both,

Students can use the academic store and receive a discount. When logging in, we have an academic partner role that offers the discounted pricing for bulk orders.

Right now, we are mostly using the students' purchasing from the academic store.

The movie "idiocracy" comes to mind!

The hardware setup is confusing and not properly labelled so you tend to spend more time to figure it sometimes

Like the coursecontent and labs are properly balanced so that you can complete labs and coursecontent in 5 days, compared to other courses where there are more labs for some modules

I used an internal train-the-trainer certificate from a company I was working for at the time to get my MCT. The MCT does not prove any capabilities whatsoever. It's just bureaucratic nonsense. I eventually dropped mine because they charged too much to keep it, and it provided zero value. Originally , it was only extended to technical instructors, but was eventually extended to application instructors teaching Word and Excel.

The MCT designation is a joke.

Gregory Childers said:

For the average person, paying for a semester-long course or a boot camp is cost-prohibitive. They are already resorting to cheap or free online videos, AI, and brain dumps.

The major impact that I predict is a huge increase in the number of people who can memorize topics, but have no practical hands-on knowledge.

And then they wonder why they have trouble finding jobs.......

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AI will make the people in the world more stupid. The average IQ of people will drop in the next few years.
No one will be able to really think through a Problem.
AI will then start to train more an more on Content created by other LLM, because people post that on the internet.. Which then makes the AI somehow stupid as well.

I can go back to jobs require working with your Hands also.. It will take some robots a few more years to do that... i wanna see a Robot remove a Car Engine an take it apart and together that it is running. Wether an 911 Boxer or an Mustang V8. they will fail more often then i would..

Today Students are not really willing often to learn Content. No chance, that they would sit for 10 days in a Boot Camp Course and take 5 Exams in that Time, even on Sunday... 5 Days incl. Traveling and 9-5 Course time.. That is what they often want...

Gregory Childers said:

CompTIA has several certifications that do not meet a business case. The Data+/DataSys+/DataX series is an example. Very little demand for these certs since they were launched.

MCT does not prove educational competence. It proves you paid Microsoft a fee.

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Gregory, hosnestly, i believe you did understood what i meant:

To become a MCT, you had / have to prove your educational Skills. Even if there are more then 30.000 MCTs right now (which will be decreased in 2026), you have to attend an Course.

Provide Verified Proof of Instructional Skills​

• Complete your instructional skills course from any Microsoft-approved ISCP you choose from this global list.
• Once you’ve completed your instructional skills course through your selected ISCP, the organization will submit your verified training completion to our MCT Program.

And that i meant, you can use to get educational training and provide it to others. Same as CTT.

Sarcasm: What do you need to call your self an CompTIA Trainer? Nothing. You can just call yourself so..

And i do not the Details for the Data Track, if the Business Case is matching the Numbers.. We will see.
But DATA+ will get a V2, so it seems not so bad yet, that they cancel it altogether right now.

But CTT will not come back, i am pretty sure about that..

Speak into that more - when you say 'properly balanced' and your thoughts on it, I'd ask for some details...?

Are you talking about the CompTIA Perform Network+? If so, perhaps you might start by providing some feedback, yourself...what have you heard?

Stephen Schneiter said:

You will be able to rewind and unwind with the event.

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Nice. Today is something of a chaotic day, so I can't be there in person - or even in spirit...

Mohamed MS said:

Hii @Stephen Schneiter

Just checking in on when the A+ core 1 & 2 vouchers are anticipated to go out.

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I emailed Stephen about this last week. He said basically by the end of the month.

Rick Butler said:

Is this just for live-stream or will it be available on the rewind?

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You will be able to rewind and unwind with the event.