Carroll Community College graduate Roger Voter has attained a bachelor's degree and started two businesses since he completed his associate degree in 2010. He is now busy making plans for an exciting future in the world of national and international organizational development.

The Carroll graduate says his attainment of an associate degree contributed to his career success. While at Carroll, he interned at NASA and at a Congressional office. He also served as an Academic Center tutor in statistics.

Carroll helped to shape his vision for the future. Voter was present as a student representative of the college at the signing ceremony for an articulation agreement with the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. As he listened to the business school's Dean Gupta discuss the exciting opportunities for transfer students, he became inspired to enter the business world.

Voter was convinced that the business school was the place for him. After graduating from Carroll, he applied, was accepted and spent two years pursuing an accelerated bachelor's degree. In May, 2012, Voter graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.

About halfway through the business school program, Voter started a business in the Westminster Town Mall called Save Point. "It is a retro gaming store with old vintage games, arcade cabinets, racing games, and wall-mounted televisions with Xbox 360s. The business is growing at an amazing rate. In fact, the space has expanded to three times its original size because business is booming," he says.

In June, 2012, Voter and a classmate from a senior capstone class created a plan to incorporate a non-profit organization. They aspired to enter developing countries to improve access to health care. They founded "International Medical Aid" with online fundraising and with personal funds. The non-profit provides mobile health clinics which utilize the services of local physicians to diagnose and treat local residents in developing countries. The mobile unit was open in Ecuador for one week in the summer of 2012. Large numbers of residents turned out for the first mobile clinic. Voter and his partner have also been to Kenya to run a short-term mobile clinic that has doubled in size and attracted more volunteers to deliver much needed medications to villages, schools and orphanages.

Voter also credits his Carroll experience as the impetus for his interest in lighting design. Voter worked as a technical theater assistant while at the college. Since then, he has been hired to work in venues throughout Washington, D.C. as a lighting designer and supervisor for special and corporate events.

Voter believes that his experiences at Carroll have exposed him to professional and personal opportunities that will lead him to become a thriving entrepreneur in the coming years.

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