RIT Tech Crew was not where I expected that I would have worked for approaching 5 years coming into college but putting in my application during orientation week, my freshman year of school, is probably one of the best decisions I ever made.

We are a live production company consisting of 80+ college students with 2 full-time staff members in charge. We are responsible for supporting the majority of production for on-campus events, supplying lighting, sound, and power distribution to events ranging from dance parties to commencement and full-scale concerts. 

One of the coolest parts of Tech Crew is that we write and conduct our own peer to peer training which everyone partakes in for 3hrs every week.

Furthermore, we have three student management teams:

• Supervisors, in charge of large jobs and training.

• Coordinators, in charge of building jobs based on clients needs and scheduling crew members. 

• The Shop Team, in charge of managing, maintaining and repairing our gear and spaces as well as writing and conducting tool training.

I hold the title of Shop Foreman — the highest position on the shop team and manage two Assistant Shop Foreman and a crew of 10 Shop Techs. 

Along with being a job, Tech Crew is also where I've made some of my closest friends. We are more than just a job; we are a community full of people that love to work hard and have a good time while doing it.

Our biggest annual community-oriented event is Relay for Life, run by The American Cancer Society. This 12-hour overnight relay event is a fundraiser aimed at creating a cancer-free world. Tech Crew pulls up in full force every year. Not only do we support the event from a technical standpoint, we have also been the #1 fundraising team since Relay started at RIT over 10 years ago, and we even won the 2024 Campus Team of the Year award.