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IDEA Riverview Students Explore Career Pathways at TSC Summer Camp

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:33:06 +0000

Students from IDEA Riverview proudly show off the wooden tool caddies they assembled and painted as part of their time spent with the Construction Technology program at 51��’s ITEC Center. The students’ summer camp session spanned three days, having them receive hands-on experiences with a variety of different TSC programs that also included Allied Health professions to Industrial Mechanics & Maintenance Technology (IMMT) and Cybersecurity.

51�� (TSC) welcomed students from IDEA Riverview for a dynamic, four-day career exploration summer camp at the college’s International Technology, Education, Business and Commerce (ITEC) Center from Monday, June 2 through Thursday, June 5 2025. The event provided hands-on learning experiences and early exposure to in-demand career pathways across a variety of technical and professional fields.

The summer camp is part of TSC’s ongoing efforts to engage high school students in career exploration and connect them to meaningful educational pathways early in their academic journeys. Throughout the course of the three-day camp, students were divided into rotating groups and guided through a series of activities led by 51�� staff and instructors from departments including Allied Health, Construction Technology, Industrial Mechanics & Maintenance Technology (IMMT), Computer Science, and Cybersecurity.

Our students need to be able to have access to career exploration, and we want to partner with TSC because we want our students to pursue career exploration through Computer Science, because that’s the pathway we have,” said Elvis Delgado, Assistant Principal of Instruction and P-Tech Coordinator at IDEA Riverview, who was accompanying the students during their visit. “We know that Computer science is a part of a bunch of programs that TSC has, so we want our kids to understand that what they’re learning in class can apply to several different areas of study here.”

Each area introduced students to foundational concepts and real-world applications of their disciplines. Instructors provided overviews of their respective programs and discussed the types of careers that graduates can pursue in each field. The sessions also included interactive, hands-on components designed to give students a tangible feel for the tools and tasks involved.

In Allied Health, nursing instructors showed off their state-of-the-art medical training equipment before leading a session on sanitation practices, including how to properly wear, remove, and dispose of latex gloves, which is a critical foundational skill in medical settings to prevent contamination. In Construction Technology, students learned standard safety procedures before getting to handle basic tools and power tools under close supervision, assembling their own wooden tool caddies as a practical project.

“I enjoy how we’re able to learn to much new stuff that we are going to be able to use in the future,” said IDEA Riverview student Andres Meza in between finishing up his assembled project with a coat of paint. “We’re getting to learn whether we like some careers better than others, and it really helps us figure out what we want to do in the future.”

The students were also given the opportunity to dive headfirst into technological-related fields. Similar hands-on sessions with the Industrial Mechanics & Maintenance Technology (IMMT) and Cybersecurity programs gave them a golden opportunity to start learning about concepts that drive each field. For IMMT, the kids learned basic soldering skills they used in order to assemble small model robot kits, and Cybersecurity gave them a closer look into the still emerging field of Artificial Intelligence and how it will continue to shape industry in the future.