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Police ask that drivers please remember to make complete stops, be watchful for pedestrians and follow all traffic safety rules.
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The CCC Maker initiative exposes students to career options while allowing them to develop in-demand skills they can demonstrate to prospective employers.
The Workforce and Economic Development Division of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office provided $17 million to fund the initiative under the Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy framework. Sierra College is the initiative’s fiscal agent and administrator.
“These makerspaces allow our students to unleash creativity while fostering the type of innovation that is critical for jobs of the future,” said California Community Colleges Executive Vice Chancellor of Workforce & Digital Futures Van Ton-Quinlivan. “Hundreds of 20-hour internships and work-based experiences coordinated by the educational makerspaces will result from this initiative.”
“During the initiative implementation phase from July to December 2017, colleges reported that 9,158 students participated in activities in California Community Colleges Maker-funded makerspaces,” said California Community Colleges Maker Project Manager Carol Pepper-Kittredge. Community colleges also reported 235 employers have been recruited to participate, 217 students went through pre-placement training and 81 students earned digital badges documenting their skills.
“Already, student leaders are emerging, planning the spaces, promoting events, operating equipment and training other students,” Pepper-Kittredge said. “For instance, at City College of San Francisco, architectural graphic students redesigned the SmartHUB, and computer science students are creating a badge system for MakerSPHERE equipment. At Glendale Community College, 35 student volunteers helped run Glendale Tech Week and a Latinas in STEM workshop.”
More than 300 faculty members are collaborating to embed “making” experiences into community college curricula and participated in 144 professional development activities.
Efforts to create and grow their makerspaces are assisted by webinars, instructional online videos and blogs on the California Community Colleges Maker website, which allow the makerspace community to share best practices.
So far, 292 classes have accessed the makerspaces. Folsom Lake College offered “Making Social Change” in fall 2017, and Sierra College worked with Adobe to develop Kickbox.edu, which allowed students to use creativity and entrepreneurship to understand “minimal viability” of new products or services. Other colleges have submitted new maker curriculum for approval.
Orange Coast College developed an action sports curriculum to teach design, engineering and fabrication of skateboards, surfboards, standup paddleboards and other performance objects suited to the local creative economy.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 114 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year.
For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/, https://www.facebook.com/CACommColleges or https://twitter.com/CalCommColleges.
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School tours at The Farm teach kindergarten through sixth graders about California fresh produce at the 3.5-acre working farm.
Schools from all over the region are welcome to tour the farm. Kindergarten through sixth grade students get a unique, hands-on experience in a living classroom that shows them first-hand where their food comes from.
Students will see actual crops including a functioning greenhouse. They will participate in five learning stations: Grow it- explore seeds; See it- see what the seeds turn into; Save it- the newest methods for growing plants; Plant it- plant seeds; and Taste it- taste the foods grown on The Farm.
The California State Fair Farm grows more than 90 varieties of fruits and vegetables all year long from cotton, kiwi, squash, eggplant, chili peppers, corn and melons to pumpkins.
Nearly 4,000 students experience what it takes to plant, maintain and manage a farm during Spring/Fall Farm Tours.
The California State Fair Farm is a working farm that produces tons of produce which is donated to the Sacramento Food Bank. In 2017, more than 16,000 pounds of produce was donated.
The California State Fair Kaiser Permanente Farm Tours are offered for six weeks in the spring and fall.
The spring farm tours at Cal Expo are Monday through Thursday starting April 9 and wrap up May 17.
The fall tours will begin on Sept. 10 and will conclude Oct. 18.
Schools are encouraged to book tours for both spring and fall now before all of the slots are taken.
There is a nominal fee of $7 per student for the tour. Included in the fee is a tour through the Forest Center, an area that features 40 native species of trees.
Experts from the Forest Foundation allow the children to get close to nature while learning about the benefits of a healthy sustainable forest.
Also during the farm tour, students can milk “Cali,” a mechanical cow donated by the California Milk Advisory Board.
Reservations are going on now at http://www.castatefair.org/farmtours/.
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Two new law schools, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, have joined the program, bringing the number of law schools involved in the program to eight. Twenty-two high school law academies have also been added.
The Community Colleges Pathway to Law School initiative launched in 2014 with a goal of enhancing opportunities and advancement in the legal profession for diverse populations, particularly those who have traditionally been underrepresented.
More than 700 community college students are currently enrolled in the program statewide, with more than 250 graduated Cal LAW Scholars already.
“Expanding this program proves it has been a successful venture for everyone involved,” said California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley. “We’ve long known California community colleges are filled with gifted and capable students who would benefit the legal profession across California. This program gives those students a direct path to some of the finest law schools in the country, and gives those schools a pipeline of diverse students from across the state.”
The remaining participating law schools are University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, UC Davis School of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law and Loyola Law School.
The Community Colleges Pathway to Law School initiative requires students to complete courses based on a defined set of “success factors” that help make effective lawyers. Students in the program receive early exposure to the law school experience, individual advisement and mentoring from law school advisors, financial aid counseling, LSAT preparation and waived application fees for admission to the participating law schools.
To learn more, visit http://californialawinc.com/ .
Community colleges participating in the program are Antelope Valley College (Lancaster), Bakersfield College, Chabot College (Hayward), Chaffey College (Rancho Cucamonga), College of Alameda , College of the Canyons (Santa Clarita), College of the Sequoias (Visalia), East Los Angeles College, Fresno City College, Gavilan College (Gilroy), Hartnell College (Salinas), Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Mission College (Sylmar), Merritt College (Oakland), Rio Hondo College (Whittier), Riverside City College, Sacramento City College, Saddleback College (Mission Viejo), San Joaquin Delta College (Stockton), San Jose City College, Santa Ana College, Santa Monica College, Solano Community College (Fairfield), Southwestern College (Chula Vista), Ventura College, Victor Valley College (Victorville) and West Los Angeles College.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 114 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year.
For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/, https://www.facebook.com/CACommColleges or https://twitter.com/CalCommColleges.