CCC Marketing & Events Coordinator, Brian Harris celebrates student success at CCC Career & Tech Round-Up 2016. Courtesy photo.
FLAGSTAFF — Coconino Community College is hosting a free Career and Tech Round-Up on Saturday, Oct. 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The curriculum includes engineering, science, technology, hospitality and other educational opportunities.
“The CTE Round-Up is one of the premier events in the area for students to investigate career opportunities and career and technical education and get some hands-on experience with real-time demonstrations with people from the industry and faculty who teach those fields,” said Jeff Jones, Dean of Learning, CTE and Director at CCC’s Fourth Street Innovation Center.
The CTE Round-Up will have information sessions and activities for the whole family. Radio remote broadcasts featuring HITS 106 and KQST “The Q” will be there with food, refreshments, music, prizes and “The Money Machine.”
Attendees can tour the campus and learn about CCC’s Fourth Street Innovation Center, visit a blood-pressure clinic, meet Trauma Hal, a life-like mannequin used to train First Responders, manipulate solar water heaters and solar ovens and learn about fire safety. There will be fire trucks and gear for the kids to dress up like real firefighters in addition to bouncy inflatables and other activities.
The event will be held at CCC’s Fourth Street Innovation Center, 3000 N. Fourth St., Flagstaff. For more details, call (928) 226-4312, (928) 526-7600, or visit our website at www.coconino.edu.
About Coconino Community College: Student success is the heart and purpose of Coconino Community College. CCC provides affordable tuition and a wide variety of certificates and degrees including career/technical programs with more than 50 certificate programs and two-year associate degrees in various fields including nursing, fire science, law enforcement and business. The award-winning CCC2NAU program provides an innovative way to smooth a student’s path toward a bachelor’s degree at Northern Arizona University with tailored advisement and institutional collaboration, including access to amenities at NAU.
Since 1991, CCC has served residents across 18,000 square miles of Coconino County. CCC has helped create the region’s skilled workforce, which is improving overall health, safety and the economy in the region. Today, CCC serves more than 7,500 students per year with two campuses in Flagstaff.
CCC reaches out to the more rural portions of the County including Williams, the Grand Canyon/Tusayan, Page/Lake Powell, Fredonia, Tuba City and other remote areas on the Navajo, Hopi and Supai Tribal Lands. Instructional sites offer classes through online, in-person and Interactive Television classes to meet the needs of students in these rural and remote areas. Nearly 20 percent of CCC’s students are Native American learners.