{"id":13484,"date":"2022-05-27T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=13484"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:08:02","slug":"lfhs-students-engage-in-career-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=13484","title":{"rendered":"LFHS Students Engage In Career Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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David Armendariz, State Farm agent and current president of the Los Fresnos Rotary Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emilio Flores
Los Fresnos News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Fresnos Highschool students had the opportunity to hear about people from all different career types share what they do, and why. The event was Monday through Friday, excluding Wednesday, and had three speakers each day. Each lecture lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes, allowing questions on how much each of them makes if there are any degrees required, and how they personally found themselves in that specific occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Talking with Brian Martinez, Mathematics Department Chairman at the Los Fresnos Highschool, he explains \u201cOur district added the Financial Mathematics course a couple of years ago in order to better serve our Senior students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


He says, \u201cQuite often when I describe the course to people they say that they wish they had gotten the opportunity to take it.\u201d From calculating your paycheck to making a decision on loans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cThe expo itself was part of a 3 piece final designed to have the students walk away with a real and useful product. The students started by crafting a resume, we followed that up with the expo, and finally, the students are making a budget based on their immediate earning potential.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pete Maldonado, General Manager Walmart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


The lectures themselves ranged from all different speakers, Martin Magallan, manager at Zarsky Lumber, Pete Maldonado, General Manager at Walmart, Chad Bresson pastor of The Table of Los Fresnos, Mark Milum, City Manager, Donald Henderson, Dr. Gonzalo Salazar, LFCISD Superintendent, Belia Gomez Cisneros, CPA out of Brownsville and David Armendariz, State Farm for Los Fresnos. They all had different points to share and didn\u2019t shy away from sharing how their personal career started. Where they started and how they made it to where they are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Each Presentor gave their own bits of knowledge and experience. Here are some of the things the speakers shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Val Champion, Executive Director for the Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce shared, that when he was offered Executive Director Position he accepted saying because \u201cI thought I could in some way enhance our Los Fresnos Community.\u201d Champion says, \u201cI have been fortunate to have lived, worked, and broke bread with diverse cultures.\u201d He shares that both him and his family have been blessed through his career. but he says \u201cthe most important is that we are all people and that this is a people world!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Val Champion, Executive Director for Los Fresnos Chamber of Commerce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


\u201cI was fiercely loyal to my employers, and I always performed to the very best of my God-given abilities.\u201d Champion says, \u201cThis way of life opened many opportunities to find out \u2018what is on the other side of the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


David Armendariz, the current President at Los Fresnos Rotary club and State Farm agent of Los Fresnos said concerning the career expo that it was a \u201cGreat event. We had 12 Rotarian volunteers. Kayla, Luis, and I wanted to make this Career Expo A little different. A big thanks to Kayla for taking the reins, and pulling this off in such a short period of time. We met at the Rancho driving range to discuss a strategy. We wanted to make this expo a little more interesting by getting the kids engaged.\u201d Armendariz says, \u201cWe discussed The journey we took to arrive where we are now in our occupation.\u201d He highlights the expo saying \u201cI believe in the end it was a very successful expo. Looking forward to doing it again next year and making it bigger and better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Donald Henderson is a financial advisor and highlights the main parts of his job being Manage accounts, and investing other people’s money to get them a return. Henderson speaks on what you need to have his job: Need to have a degree, then you have to build relationships with people. He mentions working for a company versus working for yourself and says there\u2019s a lot more responsibility working for yourself, but when done right can be very rewarding. He also stresses Communication skills and getting involved in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Donald Henderson, a Financial Advisor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Mark Milum, Los Fresnos City manager shares insight on the four different personality types. Milum says you have the Driver type, Expressive type, Amiable type, and Analytical type. None are a bad type, but as he explains finding a strong working team, you often find a balance of these four types\u2026 The driver is someone that wants to get things done, the analytical type tends to not like changes and enjoys details written down, the amiable is warm and friendly and needs personal affirmation, and the expressive tends to be more creative, casual about details, moves from one task to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Milum, City Manager of Los Fresnos<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


Brian Martinez shares “To summarize the week, the common thread was drive and determination. No matter the field, every speaker shared how they persevered through setbacks, personal difficulties, or significant career changes. We hope to continue to grow this event with more speakers, more industries, and more students.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Martinez says that between the Rotary and teachers Jon Bush, and Fausto Atkinson, they have worked really hard the last couple of years to tweak and improve the course,\u201d he says \u201cAnd we have more plans to come. Next year, we hope to expand the expo with more presenters from more industries and maybe even get our students walking out the door with real job opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


It really has been an effort of the whole community. From the teachers from Los Fresnos Highschool to the Rotary club, and all the individuals that spoke from different occupations. Every single one had a part in it and had the students engaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emilio FloresLos Fresnos News Los Fresnos Highschool students had the opportunity to hear about people from all different career types share what they do, and why. The event was Monday through Friday, excluding Wednesday, and had three speakers each day. Each lecture lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes, allowing questions on how much each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13490,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484\/revisions\/13490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}