{"id":23,"date":"2013-06-14T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/chris-dosen-cherokee-trial-hs-achieves-certified-solidworks-expert-cswe-with-a-perfect-score"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:16:59","slug":"chris-dosen-cherokee-trial-hs-achieves-certified-solidworks-expert-cswe-with-a-perfect-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2013\/06\/chris-dosen-cherokee-trial-hs-achieves-certified-solidworks-expert-cswe-with-a-perfect-score.html","title":{"rendered":"Chris Dosen, Cherokee Trial HS, achieves Certified SolidWorks Expert (CSWE) with a Perfect Score!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201910358fee4970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201910359003f970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Dosen CSWE\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201910359003f970c image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201910359003f970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Chris Dosen CSWE\" \/><\/a><br \/>The highest certification a SolidWorks customer can obtain is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/support\/CSWE.htm\">Certified SolidWorks Expert<\/a> (CSWE). &#0160;The latest CSWE is <strong>Christopher Dosen<\/strong> and he did it with a perfect score.&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201910358fee4970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Dosen CSWE Cherokee Trail High School\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201910358fee4970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Chris Dosen CSWE Cherokee Trail High School\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>There are 1300 CSWE\u2019s in the world.&#0160; There are 29 CSWE\u2019s in Colorado. &#0160;&#0160;The <a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.virtualtester.com\/#home_button\">SolidWorks Certification Center<\/a> keeps track of certified users for CSWA, CSWP and CSWE. <\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201901d630593970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Dosen SolidWorks CSWE scivis_orbits\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201901d630593970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201901d630593970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Chris Dosen SolidWorks CSWE scivis_orbits\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris is a graduating high school senior from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherrycreekschools.org\/Schools\/CherokeeTrail\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Cherokee Trail High School<\/a> in Aurora, Colorado, USA.&#0160; While his classmates were thinking about AP exams, SAT\u2019s and ACT\u2019s (the standardized exams to get into college), Chris had an additional plan.&#0160; He set his goal to be the first high school student in the world to achieve CSWE.<\/p>\n<p>With the help <strong>Ben Nuebel<\/strong>, &#0160;pre-engineering and technology education teacher, at Cherokee Trail HS, Chris began to rigorously &#0160;prepare for this exam reserved for advanced professional engineers and designers.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>Cherokee Trail is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/support\/796_ENU_HTML.htm?pid=446\">CSWA Provider<\/a>.&#0160; Chris took and passed both the Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA ) and Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) exams.&#0160; On his own, Chris took and passed the three specialty prerequisite exams and just last month passed CSWE with a perfect score.<\/p>\n<p>But there is more.&#0160; &#0160;Chris also joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsaweb.org\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"TSA\">Technology Student Association <\/a>(TSA) and began to learn not only about design but also about manufacturing.&#0160; Later this month, Chris will represent Colorado in the national TSA finals.<\/p>\n<p>Chris will be going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\">California Institute of Technology<\/a> (CalTech) in the fall.&#0160; On behalf of the SolidWorks community, we congratulation Chris on achieving CSWE and look forward in seeing great designs with SolidWorks at Cal Tech.&#0160; Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest certification a SolidWorks customer can obtain is Certified SolidWorks Expert (CSWE). &#0160;The latest CSWE is Christopher Dosen and he did it with a perfect score.&#0160;&#0160; &#0160; &#0160; There are 1300 CSWE\u2019s in the world.&#0160; There are 29 CSWE\u2019s<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2013\/06\/chris-dosen-cherokee-trial-hs-achieves-certified-solidworks-expert-cswe-with-a-perfect-score.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4184,4183,4015,5206,5211],"tags":[4016,3930,4038,4012,4043,4039,4041,4040,4042],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-instructor","category-cad-teacher","category-mechanical-engineering","category-stem-teacher","category-technology-2","tag-3d-cad","tag-cad","tag-cad-certification","tag-caltech","tag-cherokee-trail-high-school","tag-cswa","tag-cswe","tag-cswp","tag-tsa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}