{"id":189346,"date":"2015-01-14T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=189346"},"modified":"2015-01-14T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:00:04","slug":"mtec-begins-middle-school-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mtec-begins-middle-school-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"MTEC begins middle school presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Tourism Education Council began its annual presentations to middle schools last week with educational presentations at Hopwood Middle School and Dandan Middle School.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-189346 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mtec-begins-middle-school-presentations\/mtec-pix1-3\/'>MTEC pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-189365'>\n\t\t\t\tPacific Islands Club Saipan director of Sports, Entertainment and Activities Glenn Policare, left, gets help from a student at Hopwood Middle School on the correct pronunciation of \u201chello\u201d and \u201cthank you\u201d in Korean.  Policare taught students common greetings in Japanese, Korean, and Russian during the presentation of the Marianas Tourism Education Council on Jan. 6, 2015, and will also be a guest speaker at the MTEC Tourism Summit on Jan. 22-23, 2015. (MTEC)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mtec-begins-middle-school-presentations\/mtec-pix2-4\/'>MTEC pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mtec-begins-middle-school-presentations\/mtec-pix3-3\/'>MTEC pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mtec-begins-middle-school-presentations\/mtec-pix4-3\/'>MTEC pix4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-189368'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Resort &#038; Spa bus driver Robin Sablan, left, and Transportation manager Robert Bansil address the students of Dandan Middle School during the presentation of the Marianas Tourism Education Council on Jan. 8, 2015.  Sablan and Bansil shared about their jobs, the importance of good time and attendance, and the value of being hospitable to visitors. (MTEC)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>MTEC addressed 8th graders at Hopwood on Tuesday, Jan. 6, on the importance of tourism.  Pacific Islands Club Saipan director of Sports, Entertainment and Activities Glenn Policare joined the presentation to teach the students how to give greetings and say \u201cthank you\u201d in Japanese, Korean, and Russian.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Jan. 8, MTEC visited Dandan, where several industry employees participated in the presentation.  Robert Bansil and Robin Sablan of Mariana Resort &#038; Spa shared with students about their jobs, the importance of good time and attendance, and the value of being friendly to visitors.  PDI general manager Gordon Marciano also shared about how he started in the industry as an entertainer and worked his way up to general manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve very encouraged by the participation of industry employees teaching the students different aspects of tourism,\u201d said MTEC chairwoman Vicky Benavente. \u201cPresenters like Glenn, Robert, Robin and Gordon have been dynamic in making tourism industry relevant in a way the students can relate to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MTEC will hold its annual MTEC Tourism Summit for public school system students on Jan. 22-23, 2015, at Saipan World Resort. The summit is expected to gather 600 students to learn about tourism and express their own thoughts on the Northern Marianas\u2019 primary economic driver. <strong>(MTEC)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Tourism Education Council began its annual presentations to middle schools last week with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":189365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1192,349],"class_list":["post-189346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dandan-middle-school","tag-saipan-world-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189346","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}