Slot Tech Magazine Offers Tech Class to Public

Gaming tech publication, Slot Tech Magazine, announces slot machine technician training - First-time training offered to the "man (or woman) on the street."

(PRWEB) May 5, 2006

Slot Tech Magazine has announced the establishment of a permanent technical school for slot machine technicians. The school is located in the newly built training facility at Sycuan Casino in El Cajon, California, County of San Diego.

The Sycuan School for Slot Machine Technicians (pronounced “Seek Juan” or “See Kwan”) is a cooperative effort between the native-american owned Sycuan Casino (one of San Diego County’s largest casinos) and Slot Tech Magazine. Slot Tech Magazine has been training casino slot techs since 2001. Until now, this training had been limited to the casinos themselves. A casino often would invite the magazine’s crack team of technical instructors to visit their property and provide in-house training for their own slot techs.

“For a number of years, it has been Slot Tech Magazine’s ambition to open up this training to the public at large,” commented Slot Tech Magazine publisher Randy Fromm. “This in response to the numerous inquires we receive each week asking the Big Question: ‘How can I become a slot tech?’”

“But this type of training is really impossible without the equipment upon which to learn and to practice,” continued Fromm. “The Sycuan School for Slot Machine Technicians was born as a perfect marriage of a first-rate, professional training program and a real, working casino environment with a new, purpose-built training facility. There is nothing else in the world like it.”

The ten-week slot tech training program at Sycuan Casino includes an apprenticeship program. Students will have a three-week apprenticeship with the opportunity to begin their new careers as slot techs during each of the three shifts in the 24/7 life of a casino: day shift, swing shift and “graveyard” shift.

When students complete the ten-week course at the Sycuan School for Slot Techs, they will be fully prepared to step into a slot tech position at any casino in the world and begin work with complete confidence and familiarity with the equipment and troubleshooting procedures.

“There is no other slot tech school in the world that is completely operated by a working, casino,” said publisher Fromm, who is also the lead instructor at the school. “While there are two really great institutions for slot techs (The Atlantic Cape Community College in Atlantic City, New Jersey and the Blackpool and Fylde College in Blackpool, England) academic training really doesn’t hold a candle to industrial experience when it comes to this type of work.”

“By operating in a working casino environment, students are immersed in the ‘real deal’ from the very beginning, working on the latest types of slot machines,” continued Fromm. “The Sycuan School for Slot Techs has the direct support of major manufacturers of slot machines, who have provided the school with new, fully functional slot machines. They are networked together just as they are on the casino floor, providing a real-world learning environment during the classroom portion of the school.”

During the ten-week class, bench work will be performed on REAL failures, retrieved from the casino floor. With over 2000 slot machines (and poised to add more) there is a steady stream of repair items coming through the slot shop. It will be impossible for students to leave this class without an intimate knowledge of this type of repair because this is what they will be doing for most of the class!

“This is not just a “foot in the door” school,” said Fromm. “Unless you’re completely brain dead, you will know how to fix slot machines, in many cases, down to the component level. You will know how to fix bill Validators. You will know how to fix ticket printers. You will know how to fix monitors. You will be able to say ‘I am a Slot Tech.’.”

For further information, visit the website at http://slot-techs.com/sycuan

Contact:

Randy Fromm – Publisher

Slot Tech Magazine

1944 Falmouth Dr.

El Cajon, CA 92020

Tel.619.593.6131

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