Well, the motto at Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy is "Preparing Everyday Heroes."

The school's mission is to help students get ready for a future in public service and beyond.

We recently stopped by campus for a special event that helped connect students to careers and the community.

♪♪♪ (Joshua Davis) Today's event is called P.R.I.D.E.

in Public Service.

There's over 80 representatives from 60 different local agencies, from law enforcement to emergency medical services to military branches.

♪♪♪ (Sara Franco) So basically, we're having a lot of agencies from all over Nevada and the valley.

They're coming here so that all the students can come and talk to us-- or we can talk to them.

You can just ask them questions about how they got there, like, their experiences with this, see if it's really what we want to do.

Also what it would be like for us to go work like that.

So we have people from the FBI, from CSI, EMTs, Navy, Army, all of that stuff.

(Cayle Peru) And the event itself is awesome.

It's crazy how many agencies have actually got to come out and just represent themselves and represent our school and represent the community.

It's a good way for students to interact with different agencies, find out what they're interested in, get a good variety of the different things that are offered here, different things that are offered for them in their futures.

Even if they have a plan, it still gives them a look at different opportunities that they have available.

-It's also just one of those things you can't measure.

This event, you know, you can't measure how many career opportunities or how this is going to impact them.

-So my career goal is to become a fixed-wings aviator in the United States Marine Corps.

And the way the school helped me prepare for that is by providing me with the proper resources.

All it really took was talking to the administration, talking to my instructors, just communicating and understanding that there are people out there to help me.

I've gotten in contact with the proper recruiters, with the people actually in the field flying for aviation.

-My plan is to be an EMT while I do maybe, like, med school or whatever I decide to do.

I love feeling like I can make a difference.

I've been so passionate and, like, interested in everything medical.

I just love it.

And the school is already teaching me all the background information I need for any job I might want to have in the future.

-I'm born and raised in Vegas.

I love this city more than anything, and to be at a school where students choose to come here because they want to give back to the community, to their own community and the community I love, no better job.

-What a wonderful event.

So proud of all of these students.

And to learn more about Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy, visit the school's website at vtcta.org.