Thumbs Up: To organizers of and participants in Job Shadow Day 2012 on Wednesday, which offered 200 local students the opportunity to shadow employees at 57 participating area businesses and organizations.
The event is sponsored annually by the Imperial County Office of Education and is intended to help students learn what a “real job” looks like. Students have been shadowing employees in Imperial County offices for about 10 years.
Thumbs Up: To the Imperial Valley College health fair, which concluded Wednesday.
The health fair offered students tests, screenings and information about how to get and stay healthy.
There were also booths set up with information about cancer and other diseases, along with programs for parents of young children.
Thumbs Up: To Calexico schools and iThink School Assemblies for the inspiring assemblies they put on last week at Calexico High And Aurora High.
iThink teams are made up of young men and women who give about nine months of their lives to help inspire teens to “think big,” to look at themselves at role models and to persevere whether pursuing a dream or facing problems. The organization started touring schools about 12 years ago.
Students appeared to respond positively to the assemblies.
Thumbs Up: To Desert Garden Elementary School in El Centro, which celebrated its 50th birthday Thursday with a bash that brought former students, teachers and school district officials back to the school.
A commemorative plaque whose mosaic art design was done by the Children’s Rainforest Project was unveiled during the celebration, and artwork by some of the school’s 425 kindergarten through sixth-grade students was on display.
