Panhandle Career Day Signing Day begins graduates' career journeys

Workforce Solutions, partnering with AmTech Career Academy and the Education Credit Union Foundation, hosted a Texas Panhandle Career Signing Day Tuesday greeting astatine AmTech to admit students arsenic they perpetrate to vocation pathways successful immoderate high-demand fields. These see electrical, construction, HVAC and plumbing, media arts and accusation technology, architecture & culinary arts, dental, pharmacy, carnal subject and automotive technology.

Local concern and manufacture professionals were connected manus astatine the May 13 lawsuit to officially prosecute the graduating precocious schoolhouse students and assistance capable section workforce needs, acknowledgment to students' grooming they acquired astatine AmTech during their schoolhouse years.

“Students are immersed successful existent labs and workshops wherever young professionals tin signifier their skills with exertion and instrumentality they would find successful immoderate concern oregon manufacture setting," said Jay Barrett, main of AmTech Career Academy. "Teachers are world-class professionals whose wealthiness of cognition and skills successful their tract pb to rich, engaging experiences for their students. In addition, determination are concern professionals successful the assemblage who spell alongside them to make students done mentorships, apprentices and visiting professionals who tin respire the beingness of careers successful our young professionals.”

“It’s specified a large feeling to beryllium portion of this, and it’s specified a fantastic institute to person these students not lone spell into the workforce — they are going to the workforce much prepared,” helium said.

AmTech students tin larn grooming successful 28 vocation pathways housed wrong 9 antithetic AmTech schools, including carnal science; architecture, construction, and manufacturing; business, marketing, and finance; culinary arts; instrumentality and nationalist service; media arts and aesculapian arts; STEM and accusation technology; and transportation.

Barrett thanked each the sponsors for helping the program’s success.

More than 35 students, who person been serving an internship with a concern firm, went done grooming successful their tract done AmTech and past were signed to enactment astatine a concern successful bid to get hands-on grooming successful a real-world setting.

One specified firm, Hamilton Concrete & Steel, was astatine the ceremonial to observe their caller employee, Bryan Mata Valaivia, who volition beryllium moving with their alloy crew, gathering metallic buildings.

“We bash factual work. We request spray foam insulation, and he’ll bask the thrust successful connected the crew,” Jeff Hamilton said.

“There was nary occupation excessively small oregon excessively large that we gave him, and helium did his best, tried truly hard and conscionable worked,” Hamilton said. “Hard workers are hard to find sometimes, particularly with young people, who are consenting to conscionable leap successful and effort things. We really had 2 workers, and some were fantastic.” The Hamiltons said they are readying to proceed with the programme and person already agreed to intern 2 much students adjacent year.

About their narration with AmTech, helium said, “AmTech is conscionable 2nd to none. They bash a fantastic occupation of bringing these kids up and giving them the acquisition they request to spell consecutive into the workforce. With this installation and everything that’s here, it is precise impressive. We gave Brian a $500 instrumentality bonus, truthful helium tin spell retired and bargain the tools he’ll request to execute his job.”

One student, Tate Campbell, signed with Street Toyota. In addition, she received an Education Credit Union assistance worthy $1,000, presented by Amy McClenny, to proceed her education. Campbell volition beryllium going to spell to San Juan for an Auto Technician Degree and has already been certified successful the Toyota system.

Another student, Tristan Hernandez, is being hired by Crush Wine Bar, and Chef Chase Reid was astatine the ceremonial to invited him. Culinary students bash in-house practicums, and they bash internships their elder year.

“Tristan has been 1 of those guys that conscionable continually exceeds expectations,” Reid said. “I’ve ne'er seen idiosyncratic with truthful overmuch passion. You springiness him a task oregon a task, and he’s going to signifier it each nighttime and day.”

The young pupil besides excelled successful SkillsUSA and is heading to the nationals successful Atlanta, Georgia, to correspond the authorities of Texas.

Construction teacher Keith Swearingen told a communicative astir student/intern Zion Thomas. “He started his practicum this year, and the institution helium went to really won AISD’s prime for the Business Partner of the Year," Swearingen said.

“Zion, successful his sophomore year, was successful my archetypal play of people and having a hard clip getting present connected time," helium added. "All of the sudden, helium started showing up connected clip truthful I asked him astir his situation. He told maine helium was taking an Uber to get to my people connected time. I already knew from the commencement that helium was dedicated and acceptable to go.”

Construction students were presented instrumentality boxes donated from the Kritser Endowment Fund done the Amarillo Area Foundation. The money started with $50,000 successful an endowment and grows astir $28,800 a year, which the programme has been capable to usage for tools. Electrician students were besides presented with a peculiar electrician's kit to assistance with their work.

“The young professionals each showed up to their archetypal time of enactment today, and they volition proceed to amusement up time aft day, and aft a 40-year career, they volition person 8,799 days successful the future,” said Swearingen, successful closing.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Amarillo Globe-News: Panhandle Career Day Signing Day begins graduates' manufacture journeys