AERO - PHS Academy of Energy Resource Occupations

With tomorrow being the first day back to school; here is some of our AERO’s favorite moments of last school year!

What a fabulous day participating in the Lake Success Clean Up for National Public Lands Day! AERO students helped with various task to make the camping area more enjoyable as well as build new life ring stands. The WildLink Ambassadors did a great job at communicating information learned on their Nature Bridge WildLink trip to Yosemite last spring. The Leave No Trace pamphlet they created was a great talking point to communicate the importance of protecting and preserving nature.

Congratulations to Nature Bridge Student of the year PHS AERO Alumni Kai Diaz!

Last night while accepting her award she gave a phenomenal speech about the importance of exposing students to the outdoors and how her experience with Nature Bridge WildLink and AERO helped her pursue a career in park interpretation.

After a week in Yosemite and backpacking 15+ miles these AERO sophomores are still smiling.

The AERO seniors had a great time at today’s 6th Grade Exhibition. They got the chance to showcase some of the valuable skills & tips they learn in their core CTE classes in a fun way! They were able to share their knowledge and influence the younger generation to see all the career opportunities there is in AERO. We are very grateful that the PUSD Pathways host such influential events like these.

AERO sophomores on their way to Yosemite for a week of backpacking with Nature Bridge WildLink

On Friday, April 12, 2024 our AERO sophomores attended the annual Mentors Conference at Port Naz. They spent a lot of time in preparation for dressing professionally and putting together a list of intriguing questions for the keynote speakers Rosa Fuentes and George Orozco. As well as gathering information from our great career panel of AERO advisory board members and partners.

This past Friday, April 12, 2024 a handful of our AERO seniors had the wonderful opportunity of attending the College of Sequioas- College and Career Competition. Their task was to build a wall with a door frame with the correct measurements and adjustments. Out of 9 schools & 13 teams that participated our AERO 6 & 7th students being Inuyasha Alcántar, Landon Hoard, Diego Lopez and Santos Ramos scored 3rd place. This is an awesome achievement for our AERO pathway!

Here is an inspiring inside look at our Green Tech AERO Lead, Mr. Rivera teaching the AERO sophomores how to tie a tie in preparation for Friday’s Mentors Conference at Port Naz. At this rate they’ll be ready to confidently and professionally shake hands with all our business partners.

GO AERO SOPHOMORES!!

Congratulations to PHS AERO alumni Kai!!!!

We're thrilled to announce our 2024 Student of the Year: Kai Diaz! Kai participated in a NatureBridge program in Yosemite National Park during their senior year of high school. Now a college student, Kai credits their NatureBridge experience with inspiring them to pursue their career goals: "This once-in-a-lifetime experience gave me security and a completely new outlook on life, that I knew I was making the right decision making the choice going into my area of study, forestry. I knew I needed to be part of the change to preserve and conserve nature."

Kai will be speaking at our event "An Evening Outside with NatureBridge" on May 16 at our Golden Gate campus. Congratulations, Kai!

On March 1, 2024 our AERO juniors went out to Famoso Dragstrip and watched the races. They got to witness how some of the fundamentals of engineering is applied in the production of these cars. Which is what they learn about in their Engineering Tech AERO class. The students had a blast watching the races live and in person!