A six-student team from Bakersfield's Regional Occupational Center has built an app to help high school athletes get in front of college recruiters. Team members worked during class and after school under the supervision of Mobile Apps instructor Walter Suazo. Team members worked during class and after school, Suazo said. They checked out laptops to work on a night, networking and delegating and problem-solving in order to finish the project in under two months.

The online application window to apply for programs at ROC and CTEC will be open from November 1, 2019 through March 6, 2020. During this period all Kern High School District students who will be juniors or seniors next year can complete an application on the ROC website.

Perhaps Mark Twain’s famous quip that “everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it” has a modern parallel for today’s increasingly casual business world. It seems everyone talks about the lack of formality that millennials and their successors, iGens, have, especially when it comes to dressing for work, but no one actually does anything about it.

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.  The majority of our students have received presentations or attended assemblies about Suicide Prevention at their home schools including tips on how to help a friend and who to go to if they need help.

Okay, your results may vary, but for one student it took less than 24-hours after visiting the ROC College and Career Center before she landed her first job!