{"id":308681,"date":"2019-09-25T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=308681"},"modified":"2019-09-25T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:00:55","slug":"mypros-honors-jiang-zheng-group-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mypros-honors-jiang-zheng-group-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"MyPros honors Jiang Zheng Group Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-308681 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\/mypros-honors-jiang-zheng-group-inc\/mypros-pix-1\/'>MyPros pix 1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-308682'>\n\t\t\t\tJZ Group Inc. general counsel Jordan Sundell and owner Eric Guo receive an award from Marianas Young Professionals for their support to public high school students at MyPros appreciation night for JZ Group Inc. last Friday at Marianas Creations in Garapan. (Bea Cabrera)\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\/mypros-honors-jiang-zheng-group-inc\/mypros-pix-2-2\/'>MyPros pix 2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-308683'>\n\t\t\t\tFrom left, MyPros executive director Gerard Van Gils, board emeritus Jacqueline Cue, and board director Bobby Cruz at the MyPros appreciation night for JZ Group Inc. last Friday at Marianas Creations in Garapan.  (Bea Cabrera)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Marianas Young Professionals, a non-profit organization that helps promote young professionals in the CNM, recognized the initiatives of Jiang Zheng Group Inc. by giving them a plaque of appreciation for investing in the skills and talents of public school high school students. <\/p>\n<p>The awarding was held last Friday at Marianas Creations in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>JZ Group, which owns real estate company Joint Marketing Inc., recently sponsored an educational initiative called \u201cOpen Reef Innovations\u201d where many students participated to learn about virtual and augmented reality technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The students made an application using these technologies for commercial applications for JZ Group. The application helps JZ Group clients to see and experience the properties that are for sale on island in a computer-simulated environment and allows the user to interact with real world objects that are enhanced in the simulated environment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our young people got to participate as this is a cultural and technology educational experience where we could teach young people to 3D design latte stones, to photograph in 360 degrees and to learn more about technology to preserve their language, arts and culture,\u201d said MyPros executive director Gerard Van Gils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese kids learned technology and they built a real estate marketing application for JZ Group. This is actually the first VR\/AR app created in the CNMI and it was done by public high school students,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gils said this sponsorship was a bold initiative on the part of JZ Group as many companies would not see a direct connection between investing in the education of young people and the building of their business. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis goes to show that if you want a strong business in our community, we should invest in the young people which is the future of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Sundell, general counsel at JZ Group who received the plaque with JZ Group owner Eric Guo, said that they are excited for more projects with students in the future. \u201cWe are very excited about it and this (plaque) is a nice sentimental gift as we are happy to be supporting the youth and the educational system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is well needed here in the CNMI and we are supportive of the students\u2019 future.  We are excited to give them the opportunity to try some stuff that is hard to get here but common in the mainland,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sundell said that the company has been using the app with tourists interested in buying property. \u201cBut where the app is especially useful is because it allows our company to show off Saipan and its real estate without people traveling here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe VR apps will be an important tool for the real-estate industry and we are excited to introduce that tool here and look forward to seeing the kind of apps the students will produce as they become more experienced,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianas Young Professionals, a non-profit organization that helps promote young professionals in the CNM, recognized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":308642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308681","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}