The beneficiaries of the program are third and fourth year students of the educational establishment.

The Accompaniment and Effective Access to Higher Education Program, PACE ULS, together with the Pedro Regalado de Videla Ordenes High School in the commune of Andacollo, carried out a Participatory Project focused on contributing to the vocational decision of the students of the establishment.

The project called “Making visits to support our vocational decision”, had the objective of promoting the development of the post-secondary life project of third and fourth year high school students through guided visits, according to their specialty, to educational institutions. higher education and companies in technical areas in the region, in order to complement their vocational knowledge through experience.

The event lasted 3 days, in which more than 120 students learned, according to their interest, the University of La Serena, CEDUC UCN, Hotel Diego de Almagro and the TRANSELEC Electricity Company.

Valery González, student of the 4th C Technical Business Administration at the Liceo Pedro Regalado Videla, said: “I thought this visit was excellent, a nice experience to visit the Hotel Diego de Almagro, since it is very different to have the subjects explained to you in the high school so that you yourself can see everything theoretical in practice within a company, a hotel in this case. The attitude of the staff caught my attention, as did the work within it; It is different than what I thought, since from the outside you see that the work is simple, but now that I saw it from the inside there is a team, planning and above all teamwork.”

Regarding the participatory projects of the PACE Program, the student added: “they are great, since they are an opportunity that is not given to just anyone and in the end we as a class knew how to take advantage of it and gain new experiences for our lives.”

Along the same lines, Tirare Castro, a student of the high school's 3rd C Technical in Business Administration, highlighted the experience and was “grateful for this opportunity to get to know the hotel thanks to the PACE Program, since this participatory project allows us to be here in the city of La Serena learning about the work that is done in a hotel as beautiful as the one we visited.”

Finally, Óscar Mercado, a 4th year C Technician in Business Administration student, stated: “it was great, I really liked getting to know the facilities and getting to know more in depth what the service of a hotel is like inside; The process of cleanliness and order caught my attention, as well as the treatment of the workers. I think the program is excellent, since it gives us these types of opportunities to see other realities.”

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program