By ERICA EARL — eearl@bradenton.com MANATEE — The Manatee County School Board accepted a generous donation from the Bradenton Fire Department before the school board meeting Monday. The fire department donated a 1987 fire engine to the district for student use at the Manatee Technical Institute. “The truck has another 10 good years in it,…
By CHARLES SCHELLE — cschelle@bradenton.com BRADENTON — Florida’s top jobs chief is singing the praises of the state’s unemployment numbers, but knows there is more to be done. Jesse Panuccio, executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, told the Herald during a tour of the region that while Florida’s unemployment is now trending…
My Fox Tampa Bay stopped by Manatee Technical Institute recently to interview Culinary Instructor Chef Jamie Gregorich, who was on season nine of Hell’s Kitchen. In the interview Jamie discussed what it was like being on the show and how life has changed since.
The Manatee Technical Institute Law Enforcement Academy graduated eight basic recruits last night. Class leader Graham W. Cook presented Academy Director Jay Romine with the class plaque. Two of four special awards went to Cook for Class Leader and the Highest Academic Achievement award. The Dale Earnhardt Best Driver Award went to Jerard E. Vonador. …
By Michael Pollick As Southwest Florida sheds the last vestiges of the Great Recession — with a resurgence in the manufacturing and the housing industries — a long slumbering problem affecting businesses is being felt once again. You have probably heard local homebuilders complaining that the skilled laborers needed to get their industry back to…
For the 10th straight year, Manatee Technical Institute students won more medals than any other school in the nation at the 49th annual SkillsUSA Championship. MTI had 61 national champions and won 18 gold, 25 silver and 18 bronze medals at the competition, which was June 24 to 28 in Kansas City. “MTI aims to…
MTI graduates 1,660 and extends streak By RICHARD DYMOND — rdymond@bradenton.com MANATEE — A total of 1,660 Manatee Technical Institute graduates walked across the stage Sunday at the Bradenton Area Convention Center to receive diplomas and many proudly wore gold, silver and bronze medals around their necks. The medals — 62 of them — were…
For the tenth straight year, Manatee Technical Institute students won more medals than any other school in the nation at the 49th Annual SkillsUSA Championships in Kansas City. To put it in perspective, there are about 10,000 school districts and 4,000 tech centers, colleges and universities in the U.S.; some have one or two national…
Traci Adams, a Manatee Technical Institute student studying medical assisting, is used to learning how to take care of others. But over the past few weeks, Adams has had to accept care as a patient during a health ordeal that put her in the hospital.While Adams was suffering through an emergency surgery and recovery time…
Vivian Lewis did not know where to turn. In 1999, her marriage was on the rocks, and the homemaker without a full-time job wondered how she would make it on her own. But through Florida’s Displaced Homemakers Program run through the Sarasota Women’s Resource Center, Lewis gained the skills to make it on her own….
Traci Adams, along with her parents and her husband Shannon have been through an ordeal in the past week. Traci, a Manatee Technical Institute student in the Medical Assisting program, started having stomach pains that she ignored at first, but when they became more serious she decided to go to the hospital to get checked…
MTI’s students left for Kansas City on Sunday to compete in the National SkillsUSA Championships. SkillsUSA is a national nonprofit organization serving teachers and high school and college students who are preparing for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations, including health occupations. During the week-long event, nearly 6,000 career and technical education students…
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