Personal Statement
My name is Ahmed Abdel-Gwad. I am currently a Junior at New Technology High School. Before New Tech, I had next to no experience with computers except for a typing class in middle school. I didn't even have my first computer till middle school. Before I started at New Tech, I was the farthest thing from an artist. The most I had done was drawing on paper before I came here. It wasn't until my time at New Tech that I realized my interest in graphic design and animation. It first started off when I learned to use Flash from a Junior I had class with. I started out doing small frame by frame animations and got better over time. Little did I realize that was just the beginning of what was possible. When the school bought the Adobe CS4 Master Collection and found out about After Effects. As soon as the school got it, I started learning everything about that program and used it all the time. Even though I had my hands full with what After Effects could do, I had always wondered how 3D animated movies were made. That's when I signed up for my first college class through New Tech. I found a new passion on top of 2D animation. I began to find myself transitioning into 3D art. Because of my time at New Tech, I have had the world of graphic design shown to me which I probably would have never gotten to know if I went to another school.