{"id":425412,"date":"2024-11-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425412"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"MTEC-MVA-visit-Kagman-Elementary-School","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/MTEC-MVA-visit-Kagman-Elementary-School\/","title":{"rendered":"MTEC, MVA visit Kagman Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Tourism Education Council and Marianas Visitors Authority visited students at Kagman Elementary School last Nov. 20 with their message that \u201cTourism is Everybody\u2019s Business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students had the opportunity to learn about the Marianas tourism industry, what types of people visit the islands, why travelers choose the Marianas, what the role of the MVA is, and how students can support tourism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey informed our students on how they can help MVA in promoting our islands,\u201d said 4th grade teacher Dorothy Santos. \u201cI think it\u2019s meaningful for them since they also experience when tourists come to our islands. Sometimes there are tourists that come to our school\u2026they think it\u2019s a park! They learned that they need to be kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The annual school outreach aims to engage 4th graders, 7th graders, and 10th graders on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota with current information and activities highlighting the Marianas\u2019 primary economic driver.<\/p>\n<p>MVA Community Projects coordinator Sherman Santos assisted with the presentation for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was amazed at how much knowledge the 4th grade classes had with regards to tourism,\u201d said Santos. \u201cAll the students were excited and eager to learn more about what we do at the MVA. Overall, great participation from all the students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MTEC is a non-profit organization whose mission is three-fold: to foster community understanding and support of the visitor industry; to educate the public, especially school students, about the value, social benefits, and economic contributions made to the community by the visitor industry; and to instill, improve, and promote the \u201cHafa Adai-Tirow\u201d hospitality spirit throughout the island community. The organization is also preparing for its annual MTEC Tourism Summit with school MY WAVE Clubs in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact MVA Community Projects coordinator Jack Aranda at <a href=\"mailto:communityprojects@mymarianas.com\" target=\"_blank\">communityprojects@mymarianas.com<\/a> or (670) 664-3200\/1. <em><strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/7341dd3c50fba65df6a09570c6df56c8.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Students at Kagman Elementary School respond as Marianas Visitors Authority Community Projects coordinator Sherman Santos presented about the Marianas tourism industry on Nov. 20, 2024, at the school in Kagman.<\/p>\n<p>-MTEC<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/99634d530e6021232172e83ee83c18e5.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Students at Kagman Elementary School respond during a presentation about the Marianas tourism industry on Nov. 20, 2024, by Marianas Tourism Education Council and Marianas Visitors Authority at the school in Kagman.<\/p>\n<p>-MTEC<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Tourism Education Council and Marianas Visitors Authority visited students at Kagman Elementary School&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425412","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}