GBIC's Lozoya discusses robotics, workforce development, and the digital divide
b'
BROWNSVILLE, RGV - Toyota Motors North America has donated two used manufacturing robots to Brownsville for educational purposes.\\xa0
One robot was delivered to Texas Southmost College's ITEC Center and another to Brownsville ISD's Porter High School.\\xa0
Mario Lozoya, executive director of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation, helped secure the robots for BISD and TSC. Lozoya was an executive with Toyota Motor Manufacturing in San Antonio before joining GBIC.
\\u201cIt is imperative that we work together, as a region, to create relevant processes in our schools that will help provide the necessary skills for citizens in our own back yard and position them to assume the high-tech workforce of tomorrow,\\u201d Lozoya said.
In the above podcast, Lozoya talks to Rio Grande Guardian editor Steve Taylor about the acquisition of the robots from Toyota, as well as workforce development, the digital divide, and GBIC\\u2019s \\u201cWe Grow Our Own\\u201d program.\\xa0
To read the new stories and watch the news videos of the Rio Grande Guardian International News Service go to www.riograndeguardian.com.
'