Be Ready for the Holidays! – Photography 101 or C3: Creative Casual Culinary

Be Ready for the Holidays! – Photography 101 or C3: Creative Casual Culinary

Photography 101 or C3: Creative Casual Culinary   (Bradenton, FL—October 22, 2014)   Manatee Technical Institute is offering two fun classes just in time for the holidays: Photography and Creative Casual Culinary.  Both classes start in November.  Both are being taught by true professionals in their fields.         Photography 101 is being offered by Master Photographer Carmen Schettino.  Schettino…

Kimberly-Bland ADAA president

Bland elected president of American Dental Assistants Association

Kim Bland, Manatee Technical Institute, has been elected president of the American Dental Assistants Association. Robin Chacon-Primous, a Manatee Tech graduate, was selected as student trustee of the national organization. Bland is the first person in the 90-year history of the association to have been elected to a second term as president. She is the…

Down with Diabetes

 “Down with Diabetes,” a health literacy program developed by Manatee Technical Institute and funded by Florida Blue via the Florida Literacy Coalition, is in full swing in the upper level classes of English for Speakers of Other Languages at Manatee Tech.  The students are learning how to detect and prevent diabetes.         Late last school year,…

15th Annual Multicultural Festival

15th Annual Multicultural Festival

The Farmworker Career Development Program at Manatee Technical Institute is hosting the 15th Annual Multicultural Festival at the Manatee Tech Main Campus on State Road 70 from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 18.  The festival will feature live music and dance performances, food for sale from many countries, activities for children, and free health…

Martha Meyers

Meyers nominated for Education-Workforce Partner Award

Martha Meyers, Manatee Technical Institute, has been nominated for the 2014 Education-Workforce Partner Award by CareerSource Suncoast (CSS). One of the requirements for the award nomination is that the individual is a “champion for workforce collaboration.”  “Martha has been instrumental in the success we have had at Manatee Technical Institute. She has been key to…

Networking student Alaa Frijah

Manatee Tech students volunteer for United Way Day of Caring

Alaa Frijah, a Manatee Technical Institute student in the Computer Network Support Services program, volunteered with his class for the United Way Day of Caring on October 2.  Their assigned project was painting a large fence in Bradenton’s Village of the Arts.  Frijah, 36, worked as store manager and took a lesser paying job so he could go back to school…

Farmworker-Career-Development-Program

Manatee Tech to host FL Farmworker Career Development Conference

Manatee Technical Institute will host the 2014 Florida Farmworker Career Development Conference October 8 to 10, with pre-conference meetings scheduled for October 7.   Rod Duckworth, Chancellor for the Division of Career and Adult Education, Florida Department of Education, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s state conference on October 8. The purpose of the…

Jay Romine

Romine elected vice-chair of state Training Center Directors Association

Jay Romine, director of the Law Enforcement Academy at Manatee Technical Institute, has been elected vice-chair of the Training Center Directors Association for the State of Florida. Manatee Tech’s Law Enforcement Academy is one of 40 certified criminal justice training centers in the State of Florida. The Training Centers Directors Association is tasked by the Florida Department…

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