{"id":34295,"date":"2026-04-02T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=34295"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:07:36","slug":"lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"image_print\"Print<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Lake Land College hosted its very first Laker Day at the Effingham Technology Center, giving local high school students a chance to explore career pathways and discover local academic resources.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A total of 236 high school juniors attended the event, representing Altamont, Beecher City, Dieterich and Effingham high schools. During the event, the students met with Lake Land faculty, asked questions and enjoyed interactive demonstrations \u2013 including virtual reality games and nursing patient simulators \u2013 to learn about careers in healthcare, transportation, early childhood education, medical coding, apprenticeship and more.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Students also enjoyed the chance to explore the Effingham Technology Center, Lake Land\u2019s newest state-of-the-art facility, and discover wrap-around academic support services available in the building. Students learned how valuable resources such as financial aid and TRIO can help reduce barriers to education and make their goals attainable.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Lake Land College Effingham Technology Center, visit the\u00a0Lake Land College website<\/a>\u00a0at LakeLandCollege.edu\/Effingham-Technology-Center-ETC\/.<\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lake Land College hosted its very first Laker Day at the Effingham Technology Center, giving local high school students a chance to explore career pathways and discover local academic resources. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center - Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center - Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-02T16:06:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-02T16:07:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Greg Sapp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Greg Sapp\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Greg Sapp\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1\"},\"headline\":\"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-02T16:06:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-02T16:07:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Local News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/\",\"name\":\"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center - Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-02T16:06:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-02T16:07:36+00:00\",\"description\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/local-news\\\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"width\":272,\"height\":69,\"caption\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1\",\"name\":\"Greg Sapp\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/greg_sapp\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center - Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center - Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","og_description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/","og_site_name":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","article_published_time":"2026-04-02T16:06:11+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-04-02T16:07:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Greg Sapp","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Greg Sapp","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/"},"author":{"name":"Greg Sapp","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1"},"headline":"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center","datePublished":"2026-04-02T16:06:11+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-02T16:07:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/"},"wordCount":168,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg","articleSection":["Local News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/","name":"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center - Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2026-04-02T16:06:11+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-02T16:07:36+00:00","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LLC.VirtualReality-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/34295-lake-land-college-hosts-first-laker-day-at-effingham-technology-center\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lake Land College Hosts First Laker Day at Effingham Technology Center"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","name":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","width":272,"height":69,"caption":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ea4a7a4f3418a551e6319888ef00a8f1","name":"Greg Sapp","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/author\/greg_sapp\/"}]}},"modified_by":"Greg Sapp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34300,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34295\/revisions\/34300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}