{"id":22972,"date":"2012-06-30T06:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T06:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=22972"},"modified":"2012-06-30T06:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T06:14:24","slug":"consulates-aircon-mechanic-students-now-us-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/consulates-aircon-mechanic-students-now-us-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulates’ aircon mechanic students now US certified"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twenty-two graduates of Domestic Refrigeration and Aircon Mechanic Batches 1 and 2 offered by the Philippine Consulate General and the Philippine Overseas Labor Office are now U.S.-certified after passing the Section 608 certification approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/span><\/div>\n

The successful examiners will be recognized in tonight’s graduation ceremony at the Chalan Kanoa Beach Club, said Ignacio \u201cJhun\u201d D. Ba\u00f1adera.<\/p>\n

Ba\u00f1adera, who was among the 22 passers, said in a phone interview yesterday that they were divided into two groups, with one group taking the exam on April 28 and the other on May 5.<\/p>\n

The exams were administered at Chong’s Corp., the results of which came out recently.<\/p>\n

Both groups took the certification exam after finishing the EPA 608 review course and hands-on training led by Ba\u00f1adera, Roger Ginocor, and Edwin Desin at the Joeten CK barracks from Feb. 5 to April 29.<\/p>\n

The EPA-approved Section 608 certification is needed to service building air conditioning and refrigeration systems.<\/p>\n

Ba\u00f1adera said the certification exam cost $110 per person, plus another $15 for review materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter we finished the basic refrigeration and aircon mechanic course, we really worked at getting U.S.-certified,\u201d he recounted. \u201cWe were so tense after taking the exam but when we found out that we passed, we were very happy. We’re so excited and we hope to have a good graduation ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ba\u00f1adera noted that their certification is an \u201caccomplishment\u201d for the instructors but more so on the graduates who took the review to pass the exam.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs reviewers, it brings us great satisfaction that they passed the certification exam because that means we were effective in our teaching ways and methods and that they absorbed what we taught them,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n

Essentially, being U.S.-certified means being able to handle Freon, according to Ba\u00f1adera. \u201cMoreover, we can now service aircon units because of the certification.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ba\u00f1adera said the 22 individuals will form part of the Marianas Institute of Certified Refrigeration and Aircon Technicians Inc. or Microntech, which is in the process of being licensed as a non-profit corporation on island.<\/p>\n

Officers include Ba\u00f1adera as president, Desin as vice president-internal, Ginocor as VP-external, and Roginia \u201cGing\u201d Ba\u00f1acia as secretary.<\/p>\n

Microntech, Ba\u00f1adera said, will be at the forefront of more domestic refrigeration and aircon mechanic trainings since POLO has limited space available to accommodate this course, along with other livelihood trainings it offers to Filipino workers for free.<\/p>\n

The graduates of this course can now take up the troubleshooting and mastery components of domestic refrigeration and aircon mechanic, which will be spearheaded by Microntech. \u201cWe informed POLO that these will be a continuation of their reintegration efforts,\u201d said Ba\u00f1adera.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that Microntech is now conducting review classes for Batch 3 composed of some 20 individuals who are also aiming to become U.S.-certified mechanics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re optimistic that they will pass the certification exam since we’re effective with Batch 1 and 2,\u201d added Ba\u00f1adera.<\/p>\n

Consulate officer in charge Jose M. Sto. Domingo praised the 22 individuals for demonstrating that \u201cyou can succeed as long as you’re focused and have the will to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what we’re made of. We have the intellectual capacity and talents which cannot be replicated by others,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

For her part, POLO officer in charge Julia Fabian said they are \u201cvery proud\u201d of the new U.S-certified mechanics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are the ones who validate that our livelihood training program is successful and rewarding,\u201d said Fabian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-two graduates of Domestic Refrigeration and Aircon Mechanic Batches 1 and 2 offered by the Philippine Consulate General and the Philippine Overseas Labor Office are now U.S.-certified after passing the Section 608 certification approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[46,112,38,320],"class_list":["post-22972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maharlika","tag-ceremony","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-saipan-tribune","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972","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=22972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}