"Mi progreso lo forjara la educación al saber" Preparatoria Federal "Lázaro Cárdenas" (PFLC) is a federal high school located in Tijuana, north-west Mexico. Its official mascot is the jaguar and its artistics and culturals teams are called "Jaguares" or "Jags" History With the city of Tijuana already undergoing fast development, especially as a strategically located border town between the U.S. and México back in the middle of the 1900s, the need for higher education for its fast growing population soon became imminent; the need to offer post-secondary studies spurred the creation of the first high school ('Preparatoria' as it is called in México) in the region, this at a time when Baja California was still considered as a territory (and therefore highly dependent upon the federal government regarding its governance and administration), before becoming a proper 'State' of Mexico. In 1946 a group of nine students started their studies in an education center that now caters about 5,000 students. Origins The school was founded based on Federal Cooperation on September 2, 1946, on the premises of the Alvaro Obregón School, situated at the southwest hillside part of Tijuana, which is now the site of The House of Culture, by its founder, Professor Rosas Garcia Jose Efrain, named as the first director of the federal high school in operation there. In 1950, he moved together with the Secondary Studies section to the Centro Escolar de Agua Caliente to merge this with the Industrial Technical Institute on the same site. The educational complex was initiated by a group of local teachers and professionals led by Professor Rosas Garcia Jose Efrain. Teachers pioneered by Rosas Garcia Jose Efrain, and Angel Morales Barraza, Angel Ruiz Ojeda, Alfonso Gómez Pereira, Gabriel Moreno Lozano, Maximum Argout, Luis Torres Coto, Margarita Ruiz Diaz, Ildefonso Corella and Tiburcio Gómez Alatorre . Subsequently, joined by others like Miguel Bargalló Ardévosol, Maria Luisa Bargalló, Guillermo Caballero Sosa, Julio Torres Coto, Froylan Esparza, Jose Alberich, Aurelio Magro, Antonio Blanco and González Atenogenes. 1960s In 1960 the High School joined the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), thus giving birth to the University being implemented in the Coastal Zone, without losing its dependence from the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP). In 1961 a divergent movement arose that resulted in the first semester of a school year ending in June, resuming activities with a second semester starting in September, later in the same