Rio Hondo College summer camp carries on thanks to a cooperative effort
WHITTIER, CA – Every summer for more than 11 years, Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California, has hosted a CTE Career Exploration Camp for area middle school students. The ongoing challenge: help students see the broad range of technical career opportunities available and the paths of study in higher education that will lead to them. Camp organizers want students to think outside the box and look toward career options they often have not thought of such as drafting, civil design, architecture, and other career/technical areas.
In rising to this challenge, organizers have relied on one crucial tool: hands-on learning.
But 2020 has layered complications on top of complications for educators everywhere. Rio Hondo College faced a new twist to the old challenge: provide hands-on experiences to students when teachers could not even be in the same room with them.
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