It’s going to be a lifelong journey’: Aden Reed follows passion, graduates from UNK with IT degree

Aden Reed has always been interested in electronics and technology.

This fascination came from his father, who worked on nuclear missiles while serving in the U.S. Air Force.

Reed started out as a tinkerer, but as his skill level improved, people began coming to him to fix their equipment. As a high schooler, he built his own multipurpose computer as both a hobby and necessity.

“It started out as something I needed to go to college,” said Reed, who studied business and IT education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before transferring to the University of Nebraska at Kearney in fall 2021.

Reed still uses that computer, but he’s no longer focused on becoming a teacher. Instead, he decided to follow his passion into the information technology field.

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