{"id":52179,"date":"2026-03-30T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/?p=52179"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:07:07","slug":"new-beginnings-skilled-trades-and-small-business-dreams-with-acctvs-ready-set-ascender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/2026\/03\/30\/new-beginnings-skilled-trades-and-small-business-dreams-with-acctvs-ready-set-ascender\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings, Skilled Trades, and Small Business Dreams with ACCTV\u2019s Ready, Set, Ascender!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest episode of Ready, Set, Ascender! celebrates growth, community milestones, and the entrepreneurial spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hosts Alejandra Polcik and Diana Gorostieta Martinez reflect on the highlights of Ascender\u2019s 10th anniversary and the grand opening of the ACC Lockhart Center, a new hub for students pursuing hands-on careers in high-demand fields like automotive technology, welding, HVAC, and plumbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hosts also welcome Araceli Ramirez, an ACC Business Administration student and talented hair and makeup stylist. Araceli shares how she is utilizing ACC\u2019s Free Tuition Program to build a foundation for her future salon and her plans to transfer to St. Edward\u2019s University through the ACComplish partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the latest episode of Ready, Set, Ascender! Below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ready, Set, Ascender! | New Beginnings\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zIl7o3LPeEM?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest episode of Ready, Set, Ascender! celebrates growth, community milestones, and the entrepreneurial spirit. Hosts Alejandra Polcik and Diana Gorostieta Martinez reflect on the highlights of Ascender\u2019s 10th anniversary and the grand opening of the ACC Lockhart Center, a new hub for students pursuing hands-on careers in high-demand fields like automotive technology, welding, HVAC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":51824,"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":[18],"tags":[131,425],"class_list":["post-52179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-for-you","tag-acctv","tag-ready-set-ascender","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\/52179","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=52179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}