{"id":440,"date":"2026-09-25T20:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/?page_id=440"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:36:19","slug":"giving-back-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/giving-back-to-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Back to the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chesterfield Technical Center &#8211; Cisco Computer Networking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up in Richmond, VA, I attended a technical school during my junior and senior years of high school, where I studied Cisco Computer Networking. That experience gave me an early start in technology and helped build the foundation for many of the skills I use today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of how much I gained from that experience, I try to give back whenever I can, whether that is financially or through my time and knowledge. I have donated equipment for the school&#8217;s yearly gaming tournament and have also returned to help set up and support the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoy finding ways to give back to the youth in my community and hopefully help them get an early start in technology, just like I did. I like to live by the motto <strong>&#8220;each one, teach one.&#8221;<\/strong> To me, success means more when I can use what I&#8217;ve learned to help someone else grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37232\/2026\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-441\" style=\"width:839px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chesterfield Technical Center &#8211; Cisco Computer Networking Growing up in Richmond, VA, I attended a technical school during my junior and senior years of high school, where I studied Cisco Computer Networking. That experience gave me an early start in technology and helped build the foundation for many of the skills I use today. Because&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/giving-back-to-the-community\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":29730,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lanwoodlynch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}