2025年秋季毕业生焦点：音频制作工程学生在课堂内外获得经验

麦迪逊·哈里斯（Madison Harris）来到密西西比州立社区学院（Pellissippi State Community College）时，并不确定自己想学什么，最终选择了音频制作工程（Audio Production Engineering）课程，因为她在教堂里有过音频方面的工作经验。

她立刻被吸引住了。

“It's just so fun,” said Harris, who graduated in fall 2025. “You never know what you're going to get. 每天都不一样。 我喜欢现场声音部分，因为它不完美。 There's always something you're going to have to fix on the fly.”

In the Audio Production Engineering program at Pellissippi State, Harris has learned “everything,” from game audio and live sound to studio and surround sound.

She loved Pellissippi for its smaller size compared to four-year institutions, which allowed her to make impactful, one-on-one connections with “kind and understanding” professors.

哈里斯说，由于在实习和凤凰彩票维尔的大耳朵音乐节上获得了身临其境的职业体验，她觉得自己已经为12月份毕业后进入职场做好了准备。

在为期四天的音乐活动中，哈里斯和她的同学们在现场与许多专业音乐家一起工作了很长时间。

“Which, at first, is very stressful – but an experience of fully being able to be in the field, and going for it, and doing it,” Harris said. “I've been working it two years, and I'm going to go back this third year and do it again because it's so fun.”

Harris was among a handful of students to be recognized at Pellissippi’s fall 2025 毕业典礼 Ceremony for their participation in SkillsUSA, a nationwide workforce-development organization that prepares students to become skilled professionals. At the SkillsUSA state and national conferences, students compete against students from other schools to showcase what they’re learning in the classroom. 哈里斯和她的队友利亚姆·库默斯蒂在地区和国家级别的音频制作中都获得了金牌。

“It was a fun experience getting to fully put what I had learned into the field, into a competition, and actually see it pay off,” Harris said.

哈里斯希望继续在凤凰彩票维尔及其周边地区举办音乐会和现场演出，她说她一开始并不想上大学。 她来到佩里西比是因为离家很近，她通过田纳西承诺奖学金免费获得了两年的奖学金。

她鼓励其他有资格参加TN承诺的人不要错过这个机会。

“I've learned so much,” Harris said. “It turned out to be a lot more than I expected.”