11-Year-Old Fills School Network Manager Position

After his school’s IT manager suddenly left, this sixth-grader stepped in to manage the network, mainly to help keep his mom from being overworked. Since then, he’s evaluated and deployed an internet gateway, leveraged Microsoft’s Fresh Start program to refresh the school’s workstations, and contributed to the web usage policy. Not too shabby!

His father, Dave, a civil engineer, says: “I knew when Jon was three and could boot up my laptop, sign in and open Paint, that he had a knack for computers. But I never dreamed he’d be a network administrator at the age of 11.”

UPDATE: Hold your horses people. Looks like the original article's author may have the wrong school cited. I got an email from the school she linked and they told me that there is no 11-yr old Network Admin there nor any student named Jon Penn. I'll update you when we get confirmation on what's actually going on.

UPDATE2: Ok, the original article has been corrected with what appears to be the right school. I see a Penn in their staff, which supports the article in that Jon Penn's mom works for the school. Sorry for any confusion.

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