{"id":187984,"date":"2014-12-23T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187984"},"modified":"2014-12-23T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:00:10","slug":"nmcs-nrm-enro-visits-rhi-rota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmcs-nrm-enro-visits-rhi-rota\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC\u2019s NRM-ENRO visits RHI on Rota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_187988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"187988\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NMC-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NMC-pix-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alfredo Torres gestures as he explains the environmental group\u2019s educational efforts. (Thomas Manglona II) \" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-187988\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Alfredo Torres gestures as he explains the environmental group\u2019s educational efforts. (Thomas Manglona II)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNorthern Marianas College\u2019s Natural Resources Manage Department-Environmental and Natural Resources Organization, or NMR-ENRO, visited the Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Junior and Senior High School yesterday to recruit students to enroll in their degree program and take part in the college-based group\u2019s environmental projects.<\/p>\n<p>The national award-winning environmental group, through school visits and activities,\u00a0 continues its efforts in promoting sustainable tourism.<\/p>\n<p>According to NMC professor Dr. Alfredo Torres, officers and students have been visiting schools around the CNMI as a part its efforts to recruit students to major in environmental and natural resource sciences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s last visit to the southern island was two year\u2019s ago.<\/p>\n<p>One Rota student who expressed interest in the program said, \u201cI am happy that they came over to talk about the opportunity dealing with the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torres said the goal of the recruitment is not solely to increase student numbers but to expand research and educational outreach.<\/p>\n<p>The student officers explained the internships, lab experiments, and benefits of the program to the Rota youth.<\/p>\n<p>NRM public relations officer Julius Reyes said the group is looking for students who share a passion for the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they feel like they want to make a difference then they should enroll. This provides a lot of real life experiences and quality education,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the program is expected to graduate 26 students next year and has close to 100 students studying Natural Resource Management since its formation in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Marianas College\u2019s Natural Resources Manage Department-Environmental and Natural Resources Organization, or NMR-ENRO, visited the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,21,69,978],"class_list":["post-187984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-life","tag-nmc","tag-rhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}