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KERO-TV went all out with an extended report on the opportunities that ROC is providing high school students within our community. Check out this informative report.

Exciting and numerous career opportunities exist throughout the California correctional system, and for ROC Law Enforcement students, these opportunities are more real than ever.

The second annual Kern County Career Expo was a rousing success, with 5700 attendees visiting with and learning about nearly 150 local employers.

Perhaps you harken back to the days of "Voc Ed" where "shop classes" were for non-academics who learned better "using their hands" and who were "not college material". Any truths (or half-truths in my opinion) that once lay in those beliefs have been eviscerated by technology and the modern workplace.

Each winter, the Jim Burke Education Foundation accepts 32 high achieving, high school juniors to participate in the Ford Dimension and Dream Builders leadership program through the end of their senior year.

Hundreds of ROC students began their community internships this week, but two lucky (and talented) Pharmacy Tech students were able to score a rare first semester internship which, although now coming to an end, is leading to new opportunties.

August 2019 seems a long way off to many high school students, but for those sophomores and juniors hoping to enroll in one of ROC's 31 programs to be offered next year, it can't come soon enough. Many of those students got a January sneak preview of the campus at our second annual ROC Tour event.

The ROC Robotics field trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also commonly referred to JPL, gave students an insight on what and how engineering is incorporated in the astronomical field. The employees expressed their passion and what they did and how prodigious the role of the engineer may be.

The ROC health career programs recently partnered with Dignity Health to put together a Health Care Career Forum for all of the ROC patient care related program students. Over 350 students attended.

The ROC Dental Assistant program welcomed in the Kern High Public Information cameras into their classroom, leading to this great video.