Rundown Brahma Blotter

These incidents were reported between April 2 - April 13 by:

04/11 • Ill Student A student felt ill during class near the Horse Barn and Lot 9. No further details were provided.

04/13 learners taking keyboarding, Word and PowerPoint to improve their technical skills to get into the workforce.

•Ill Student A student felt ill at the bookstore. No further details were provided.

Use those finger-swiping, doubletapping hands to develop marketable skills in the Computer Applications and Office Technologies (CAOT) Department.

“It will allow them to have opportunities for jobs while in school that are more related to their major rather than taking odd jobs,” Viz said. “This will allow them to gain more experience because they have the knowledge of these applications.”

“For a lot of students here, English is not their first language. First I was afraid, but thanks to the professors they make you feel confident,” business major Maria del Pilar Taboada said. “My skills are better now, and I’ve learned a lot. mmartinez.roundupnews@gmail.com

CAOT provides students the opportunity to hone their skills in a variety of software that can be used both in their school work or to market themselves when searching for a

The CAOT Department offers computer applications software courses including all of the Microsoft Office applications like Word or Excel. In addition, there are the business classes for communication and

“It's not just learning how to use the superficial knowledge,” Lyn Clark, department chair of CAOT, said. “For example in Excel, that is the most popular and most demanded program in business. It really takes critical thinking to be sure that you could put it all together right away without having to go back and start over.”

Viz said that the department has a big community of second-language

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