Students and family members were all part of the large turnout for the 2019 Feria de Educación held Oct. 12. (博彩平台/Bibiana 奥尔蒂斯 更多的照片
作者：辛西娅·休伯特
他们来自北加州的农业小镇和城市。 About 7,200 students and their guardians participated in the Feria de Educación on Oct. 12 at 萨克拉门托 State, an annual event designed to connect Spanish speakers with resources to put them on a path toward college.
“Welcome to your new home, 萨克拉门托 State, and your new family,” said Viridiana Diaz, assistant vice president of Strategic Diversity Initiatives. She told a crowd gathered at Serna Plaza on a perfect fall day that “education is the best gift” that parents can give to their children, and children to their parents.
参观者参观了校园，参加了关于经济援助、招生和其他主题的研讨会，并与社区学院、博彩平台和加州大学的代表会面。 墨西哥流浪乐队音乐家和阿兹特克舞者提供了娱乐节目。
萨克州立大学是一所拉美裔服务机构，这一称号适用于拉丁裔学生人数至少占25%的大学。 该指定使校园有资格获得联邦拨款和其他支持，以帮助确保拉丁裔学生的成功。
The education fair’s purpose, in part, is to bridge the cultural gap between Hispanic parents and California’s educational system, Diaz said.
“The idea is to show students and their families a path to college, and a path to a better life,” she said.
Steve Stuck of Univision, one of the primary sponsors of the education fair along with 囊状态 and CSU, said organizers want to ensure that “every student, regardless of where they are from or what language they speak, have the best opportunity” to attend college and succeed in life.
“My goal is that Latinos no longer are under-represented in the educational process,” he said.
莱斯利·阿吉拉尔、阿尔扎尼·科罗娜和比比亚娜·阿雷东多和来自莫德斯托附近纽曼小镇奥雷斯廷巴高中的同学们一起来到了现场。
这些高三学生对获得经济援助和大学录取的信息很感兴趣。 “We want to expand our knowledge about college,” said Aguilar. First, though, they visited a “visualization photo booth” where they donned graduation regalia for pictures that would serve as inspiration for the future, they said.
“It’s a chance for us to see what it’s like to put on our caps and gowns before we do it in real life,” Aguilar said.
阿纳希·加莱戈斯·鲁伊斯是一名在萨克州立大学学习生物化学的转校生，她和来自河岸的家人一起参加了这次活动。 她在那次活动中获得了1000美元的奖学金。
Her parents are immigrants from Mexico who “always told me that school has to come first,” she said. “They came from nothing and didn’t go to school themselves, so they wanted that for me.”
Ruiz said 囊状态’s Dreamer Resource Center has helped her navigate life as a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) student on a large college campus. 她鼓励其他学生利用他们可以利用的项目、俱乐部和资源。
The education fair “is helping to make students aware of all of the programs that can help them get into and through college,” said Ruiz, who hopes to parlay her college education into a career in cancer research. “If these students can take advantage of all of the programs that are offered, it can take them to a whole new level.”