Caitlyn has been a part of the world of Audio and Sound since 2005 when she joined her school band as a percussionist. While she went to Ohlone to take General Education and Music classes in the Fall of 2011, she met a friend there that introduced her to Ex'pression College. After contemplating, she finally decided to start attending in January 2014. While she was here, she took many classes in Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Sound for Film and Video Games, Design, Film, and Live Audio. She worked alongside many talented people and brought numerous projects to completion. Before she graduated, she landed an internship with The Burgundy Suite; a Media House and Recording Studio that works with Bay Area artists such as Kusta, DT 1910, and Ruby Ibarra. While she was there, she recorded tracks for the in house artists, worked on the sets of professional music videos, and edited these music videos. She graduated in August of 2018 with a Bachelors of Applied Science in Interactive Audio.

After graduating from college, she released an EP and two music videos of her own while working on many freelance and independent projects. She continues to do that until this day, joining Mission Valley ROP family as a Motion Graphics and Sound Design Instructor.

Students have been learning the 12 Principles of Animation from the book "The Illusion of Life" by former Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson. Their first assignment, following a demonstration by their instructor, was to bounce different balls and apply weight using squash and stretch, timing and arcs. This highlights the difference between a squishy ball and a bowling ball for example, by how they apply these principles. Currently students are expanding on these principles with short 2D character animations such as walk, jump, skip and run cycles. Soon, they will be creating their first 2D animated short films and implementing what they have been learning with the 12 principles, to bring their character animations to life creating a short narrative animation. 

Students started the course with the history of computer games and game theory such as rewards vs. challenge, creating game documents, and concept art. For their first project, the students were broken into groups of five to make a physical board game. The students had milestones they had to meet along the way, starting with a set of game documents that highlights the theme, concept art, and rules. The student groups each play tested another group's game and gave feedback on how they could improve the game, and what they liked and/or didn't like about the board game. The students' final milestone was to have Mrs. Shepherd's Marketing class play their games. Students rated the games for clarity of the rules, aesthetic quality and how fun the game was to play. The students are currently working on their first computer game, a 2D Science Fiction side scroller that involves simple coding and creating 2D animated sprites in GameMaker.