Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Aiden Eu­gene is one of the shin­ing stars of Mor­vant.

The 18-year-old was brought to the at­ten­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go when his pho­to was post­ed on­line by the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny where he cur­rent­ly works and his suc­cess at CSEC and now his pur­suance of his Bach­e­lor’s De­gree in soft­ware en­gi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T.

Aiden sto­ry start­ed back when he was 13 years old, the past stu­dent of St Mary’s An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School, Trinci­ty, and then Low­er Mor­vant Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School fell in love with com­put­ers and since then the love be­tween him and com­put­ers has grown in­to his ca­reer path­way.

Aiden’s love even had his par­ents pur­chase his first com­put­er af­ter they saw his pas­sion for IT and since that ten­der age, every­thing that Aiden does must be sur­round­ed by com­put­ers.

The young man, very shy with Guardian Me­dia, said that a year ago, he got sev­en sub­jects at the CSEC ex­am­i­na­tions and he was on­ly aware of his fame and suc­cess when it was post­ed.

Aiden is a pump at­ten­dant at the Laven­tille Ser­vice Sta­tion and lives at Sec­ond Cale­do­nia, Mor­vant.

The past St George’s Col­lege stu­dent said, “The post on­line was hon­est­ly not for at­ten­tion but it was more for do­ing it for the ethics and no mat­ter where you have placed its all about what you do and how you car­ry about your­self no mat­ter the cir­cum­stances and even though I was recog­nised for my good work and a cus­tomer felt com­pelled to post it on so­cial me­dia and then my boss­es.”

As Aiden pur­sues his ter­tiary stud­ies, he is now go­ing to uni­ver­si­ty part-time so that he can main­tain him­self via his job and it’s al­so a place where he can net­work.

“I am hap­py that my sto­ry is a pos­i­tive mes­sage and I am try­ing to man­age all the at­ten­tion, I am very proud of where I am right now but I still think I have a lot fur­ther to reach”, he said.

The Laven­tille and Mor­vant com­mu­ni­ties are con­sid­ered hot spots.

Aiden said, “It’s the bad news that makes the head­lines and there is a lot more in these com­mu­ni­ties and there are a lot of gift­ed youths in these ar­eas but they don’t get the at­ten­tion so much be­cause the first ques­tion is where you are from? and then it is can­celled, so what I would want the peo­ple to do is to look past the ar­eas, yes there are the el­e­ments in the ar­eas but if you re­al­ly look deeply it is more than just Sec­ond Cale­do­nia, it’s the peo­ple and every­one has a pur­pose in this life and al­low every­one a chance to shine and you will be sur­prised if you give them a try.”

As he in­tends to grad­u­ate soon, Aiden al­ready has some plans.

He said, “I will just like to fall in any oc­cu­pa­tion that is in line with my ma­jor be it a Soft­ware En­gi­neer specif­i­cal­ly or In­for­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy Per­son­nel or any­thing along those lines I would ac­tive­ly pur­sue and giv­en the right en­vi­ron­ment to flour­ish that is re­al­ly what I am look­ing for right now.”

Aiden spoke to Guardian Me­dia while he was tend­ing to pumps at the NP Ser­vice sta­tion.

His ad­vice to youths in his com­mu­ni­ty and the coun­try at large is: “The sky is the lim­it, we are all young, the biggest mis­take is to think that you have all the time in the world and don’t get me wrong there are times to play and have fun along with the plea­sures of life but don’t waste time as much as you can try to use every sec­ond of the day to­wards some­thing that brings you clos­er to your goals or clos­er to mak­ing the world a bet­ter place.”