Jeffrey McCormick, a member of the Russellville High School Class of 2016, is walking the halls of RHS once again with an important purpose.
McCormick is now the technology assistant and broadcast team coordinator for Russellville High School. What was once a joke between him and the administrators has become his reality.
McCormick did what he does now with as much care and pride without pay while he was in school. RHS principal Jason Goodwin, assistant superintendent Dr. Tim Guinn and superintendent Heath Grimes began to notice his true passion for helping fix technological problems.
McCormick received an email early in the summer asking him to meet with Grimes. That is when he officially got the job.
“Did I imagine myself with this job? No, I honestly didn’t,” McCormick said.
Even though he did not imagine himself coming back to work at Russellville High School so soon, he views this as a huge goal that he has achieved early in life.
There is no typical day as the technology assistant. McCormick fixes some type of technical issue daily, but there is always something new thrown at him. Teachers, the administration or his technology director, Joel Andrews, always have a new challenge waiting for him at work. Some days consist of spreadsheets, while others consist of setting up thirty or more computers.
He admits that it was weird at first because there were so many things he had not experienced in the Russellville City Schools system. He now attends faculty meetings, in-service days, and has his own office. He appreciates that the people who were once his teachers and are now co-workers who treat him as an adult.
As the broadcast team coordinator at Russellville High School, McCormick has a group of very talented students that help broadcast football, basketball and many other sports at the high school. The broadcasts had just been made available during his senior year, and he wanted to help build them up more and more.
McCormick loves his job at Russellville High School. What he loves most is being able to interact with the students and teachers on a daily basis.
“I have a passion to see students succeed,” McCormick said.
McCormick’s passion for helping students has impacted his future already. In addition to working at Russellville High School, he is majoring in general education at Northwest-Shoals Community College. He hopes to earn a degree in Business Education and possibly become a teacher.
“Though I’m not actually inside the classroom teaching, I’m still a vital part of the education students are receiving at RHS,” McCormick said.
Getting to work around the people that changed his life forever is a warm, welcoming feeling for him. Without equipping students at the high school with technology and the ability to use it, he believes he would be failing the students, because the world is a technology-driven place.
“Whatever IT is, I don’t want to lose it, because it’s great,” McCormick said.
It is apparent that McCormick is destined for success and is doing what he loves with a pure heart. His passion for helping the students and teachers at Russellville High School is a great asset to Russellville City Schools.
