Published Monday, September 16, 2013 by Manatee Technical Institute BRADENTON — Manatee Technical Institute will host an open house at the Main Campus on Wednesday morning, September 18, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The public is encouraged to attend. The open house will give the community a chance to see the new campus and…
By JASON BARTOLONE — jbartolone@bradenton.com LAKEWOOD RANCH — Morgan Davis was in the first grade at Gene Witt Elementary School when two planes struck the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. “We were reading a book and the teacher had to put the TV on,” recalls Davis, now 18. “I did…
(Bradenton, FL—September 6, 2013) Manatee Technical Institute will honor the American spirit in remembrance of 9/11 at both the Main and East Campuses on Wednesday, September 11. EAST CAMPUS: MTI East and the Lakewood Ranch Community Activities group will co-host the annual community gathering from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. around the flagpole at the East…
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…
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…
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…
Gary Fee is President and Chairman of Outside Sales Support Network (OSSN), an industry trade association that provides education and training programs for travel industry professionals including Travel Agents, Home Based Travel Agencies, Contractor Sellers of Travel, and Outside Sales Travel Agents. Mr. Fee paid a personal visit to Ms. Owens’ Hospitality and Tourism class…
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