{"id":14708,"date":"2021-09-04T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=14708"},"modified":"2021-09-04T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:49:53","slug":"the-latina-leads-conexiones-project-for-middle-school-aged-latina-girls-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/09\/04\/the-latina-leads-conexiones-project-for-middle-school-aged-latina-girls-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latina Leads &#038; Conexiones Project for Middle School Aged Latina Girls &#038; Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PR\/Hispanic and local LULAC Women&#8217;s Council of Florida 7269 (aka WOMEN 4 Lulac) has been awarded &#8220;TWO&#8221; very important grants that are geared towards working with middle school-aged Latinas\/Latinos.\u00a0LULAC is looking for student participation in Polk County. This opportunity will help students with their HS Academy selections plus helping them move forward towards their secondary college selections in careers and such. All students that are selected will go through a short interview process. Selections will be no more than twenty, no less than 15 throughout LULAC of Council 7269 (75% FEMALE LATINAS &amp; 25% MALE LATINOS), says Ana Rivera Chamber &amp; Council President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-27.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-27.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-27.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-27.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-27.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program will :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Introduce the digital world in a safe, legal, and ethical way. Participants will learn about their rights and responsibilities, as well as opportunities available to them in an interconnected digital world;<\/li><li>Empower participants\u2019 learning and ensure that they take an active role in learning;<\/li><li>Help participants become creative communicators. By working with others in group environments, participants will learn how to think critically and find creative solutions;<\/li><li>Administer career awareness and\/or leadership workshops through a speaker series;<\/li><li>Provide field trips to tech companies, etc. and other career development opportunities, such as job-shadowing leading Hispanic women.<\/li><li>NO COST TO FAMILIES AT ALL<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on enrolling your student contact :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ANA RIVERA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">863-838-2084<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:prhccpc@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prhccpc@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PR\/Hispanic and local LULAC Women&#8217;s Council of Florida 7269 (aka WOMEN 4 Lulac) has been awarded &#8220;TWO&#8221; very important grants that are geared towards working with middle school-aged Latinas\/Latinos.\u00a0LULAC&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1117],"tags":[1131],"class_list":["post-14708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prhispanic-chamber-of-commerce-of-polk-county","tag-the-latina-leads-conexiones-project-for-middle-school-aged-latina-girls-boys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}