{"id":48239,"date":"2024-05-13T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/?p=48239"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:47:48","slug":"9th-annual-celebracion-honors-70-graduates-in-ascender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/2024\/05\/13\/9th-annual-celebracion-honors-70-graduates-in-ascender\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Annual Celebraci\u00f3n honors 70 graduates in ASCENDER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/acc_studentaffairs\/albums\/72177720316828762\" title=\"ASCENDER Celebraci\u00f3n 2024 by sacommunication, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53710618552_0112dffe4f_b.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='240502_Celebracion_Ascender_0001.jpg'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a Celebraci\u00f3n! More than 300 people joined the 9th Annual Celebraci\u00f3n ceremony on May 2. The event was held at ACC Highland in the Austin PBS Black Box studio. 70 Ascender Catch the Next students were recognized for completing their program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speakers included Luis Pati\u00f1o, CEO of PBS, and Celia Israel, former Texas Representative. Graduates were treated to dance performance by Leander Elementary School Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico and a musical performance by Xunaxhii, a graduating senior from Leander High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACC Board of Trustee Secretary Dr. Manny Gonzalez and Manager of ASCENDER Alejandra Polcik presented all the students with their graduation stoles. ASCENDER coordinator Diana Gorostieta Martinez gave special recognition to outstanding students, advisors, professors, and mentors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ascender is a student support organization created to help improve the educational outcomes of Latino and underserved student populations throughout the state.&nbsp;<br>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/ascender\/\">austincc.edu\/ascender<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a Celebraci\u00f3n! More than 300 people joined the 9th Annual Celebraci\u00f3n ceremony on May 2. The event was held at ACC Highland in the Austin PBS Black Box studio. 70 Ascender Catch the Next students were recognized for completing their program. Speakers included Luis Pati\u00f1o, CEO of PBS, and Celia Israel, former Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":48240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[400,95,32,485,483],"class_list":["post-48239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acc-in-photos","tag-acc-in-photos","tag-ascender","tag-hispanic","tag-spring-2024-commencement","tag-spring-2024-graduation","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}