{"id":10344,"date":"2019-05-31T20:20:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10344"},"modified":"2019-05-31T20:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:20:48","slug":"lfhs-emt-students-take-part-in-career-signing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10344","title":{"rendered":"LFHS EMT Students Take Part in Career Signing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Three Los Fresnos High School seniors in the Emergency Medical Technology (EMT) program were the first from the school to take part in a belated Career Signing Day ceremony Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The three \u2013 Angela de la Cruz Martinez, Tania Gomez and Kaitlyn Mata \u2013 completed their industry-based certifications. Martinez and Mata have been hired by Schlitterbahn South Padre Island and Gomez by the Boy Scouts of America to work as EMTs.<\/p>\n

Emergency Medical Technician is on the Targeted Occupations List from the Texas Workforce Commission.<\/p>\n

Pat Hobbs, Executive Director of Workforce Solutions Cameron, was on hand to congratulate the students.<\/p>\n

“We have more demand for workers than we have skilled workers for positions,” Hobbs said. “The workforce framework has changed. There are no jobs for all of the four-year bachelor’s degrees that we are producing. It’s important that we change that mindset upon everybody that students select a career early in life that’s viable in the future.”<\/p>\n

Ronnie Rodriguez, CTE Director, addressed the group about the signing.\u00a0“It is a day where we celebrate the important decisions and commitment by high school students,” Rodriguez said.\u00a0“They have chosen to join in-demand careers in targeted occupations directly from high school.”<\/p>\n

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Texas Career Signing Day is a new statewide initiative that builds on the concept of a\u00a0signing day proclamation. It provides an opportunity for TWC to recognize and celebrate high-school students choosing to enter career pathways leading to in-demand careers in targeted\u00a0occupations directly from high school.<\/p>\n

Students move up and along a variety of career\u00a0pathways including entry into\u00a0the workforce as a result of completing career certifications towards targeted occupations, an applied learning opportunity like an internship or apprenticeship,\u00a0a Career and Technical Education program,\u00a0or a combination of all of the above.<\/p>\n

Mata is the fourth-ranked academic student in the LFHS Class of 2019. She plans to attend Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n

“I’m proud of these new EMTs,” Hobbs said. “They may start out as EMTs and finish as doctors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD Three Los Fresnos High School seniors in the Emergency Medical Technology (EMT) program were the first from the school to take part in a belated Career Signing Day ceremony Wednesday. The three \u2013 Angela de la Cruz Martinez, Tania Gomez and Kaitlyn Mata \u2013 completed their industry-based certifications. Martinez and Mata have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10344\/revisions\/10345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}