Ephrata High School students in the Industrial Arts & Technology program got to experience a rare opportunity this May: a tour inside a 5 Megawatt blockchain data center with Salcido Enterprises’ CEO, Malachi Salcido.

The students, and their teacher Dale Hagy, spent the afternoon amidst the heat and hum of powerful machines, learning about cryptocurrency, data space management, and the blockchain network.

With new and emerging technology such as bitcoin and other blockchain applications, a tour like this is an excellent opportunity for high school students to engage with what could potentially become the norm in the future. Whether in business, a potential career path, future finance and other transactions, the youth of today will see this technology impact their lives – and this opportunity provides a real-life experience with its tangible reality.