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- Contents:
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- >JATC/CFOT Instructor Home
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- JATC CFOT Procedures
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- JATC/Instructor Certification
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- Just For Instructors
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- FOA Online Newsletter
FOA "Tech
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- Links to other fiber optic
sites
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- FOA logos for member use
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- Fiber Optic Job Titles
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- All about the FOA
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- About
FOA Certifications:
- CFOT
- CFOS
- FOA CFOT Renewal Form (pdf)
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- The
Fiber Optic Association (FOA) is pleased to have a partnership
program with the NJATC.
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- FOA Gets Award for 15 Years as Training Partner at NTI
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FOA offered two courses at NTI this summer. 2006 NTI
graduate and FOA Board Member Tom Collins offered a FOA CFOT
hands-on course (both AM and PM). Tom, Jim Hayes, FOA President, and
Karen Hayes, FOA Administration, met with NTI attendees at the trade
show and gave a Monday evening seminar on what's new in Fiber Optics.
FOA will be at NTI in 2012. Watch the FOA website for the schedule.
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- Who
Is The FOA?
- The
FOA (The Fiber Optic Association, Inc.) is the "professional society of
fiber optics," a non-profit educational organization that has certified
over 34,000 fiber optic technicians in over 30 countries over the last 15 years. FOA CFOT
certification is recognized worldwide and offered to all students by
over 200 schools, training organizations and fiber optic manufacturers
in the US, Canada and in >30 countries overseas, plus is used by
organizations like Corning, AFL and NASA.
FOA
offers free curriculum materials to affiliated schools, low cost
textbooks, free online resources and inexpensive certifications as part
of its programs to promote education and use of fiber optics and
communications cabling worldwide.
The FOA is not just fiber
either. As premises cabling expands to encompass new applications over
fiber, copper and wireless links, the FOA has produced new materials
that cover the topics in a thorough, unbiased fashion.
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- What
does this mean for you?
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NJATC apprenticeship training program is now FOA approved and you can
offer FOA certification
to your apprentices and journeymen.
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can become a FOA certified fiber
optic instructor through the cooperation of the NJATC NTI and
FOA.
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NJATC Apprenticeship Program will be listed on the FOA website as an
approved school.
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- Of
course, you can take advantage of the FOA's other programs:
- Resources
just for instructors
- Online
monthly newsletter
- The FOA Online Reference Guide and Tech
Topics
- Participation
in industry activities like standards
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- Check
out the resources in the column to the left.
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The
Fiber Optic Association
Welcomes JATC Instructors