The County of Hidalgo participated in Job Shadow Day on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, in recognition and celebration of the importance of having students experience the workplace firsthand through mentoring and job shadowing. The goal of Job Shadow Day is to introduce young people to the world of work; the Job Shadow Day initiative is sponsored at the national level by America’s Promise, the United States Department of Education, The Society for Human Resource Management, AT&T, and other partners; It is also sponsored at the local level by Tech Prep of the Rio Grande Valley, the Rio Grande Valley Partnership, and numerous school districts and employers throughout the region. This year, eighteen students from La Joya High School, Mercedes High School, Sharyland High School, and Nikki Rowe High School had the opportunity of shadowing County professionals in their career field of choice and were presented with a certificate of recognition at Commissioners’ Court.