Re: Looking to Make Varsity - Any Good Training Programs?
A good grounding in the fundamental principles of audio is a great place to start. I attended a SynAudCon course a few years ago and got loads out of it. To be honest, the biggest challenge was taking everything in - it was like drinking from a fire hose. I'm sure I could have gone through it again the following week and got a bunch of different stuff to take away.
They now offer online training, which means you can go through it as many times as you like, but I got a lot of value out of the face-to-face interaction from attending a course in person.
There's no course out there that will teach how to become a varsity-level engineer, but if you understand the basic concepts behind how the signal path works, or the physics that govern how sound propagates through a room, you'll be ahead of many of your peers.