JOB CORPS On Saturday April 29, 2016, Glenmont Job Corps Center students Brandon Krenzer, Janiah Brunson and Kiron Nelson volunteered at Albany’s Capital City Rescue Mission where they served lunch to homeless men and women in the capital district. “Our partnership with CCRM...
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Glenmont Culinary Students Support Albany Police Athletic League
Throughout the month of May, Culinary Instructor Beth Koster and her Culinary students are putting out extraordinary effort to support the Albany Police Athletic League’s Bike Rodeos. The first of three Bike Rodeos was held on Saturday, May 7th, 2016 at Thomas O’Brien...
Four Glenmont Students Prepare to be Peer Mediators
Four students are currently taking part in Glenmont's Leadership Peer Mediation class. Peer mediators are students who provide support to their peers throughout any interpersonal conflicts that may occur. These mediators are trained by Glenmont's Peer Leadership...
Glenmont Student Earns A.S. Degree through A.C.T. Program
This month Gelnmont Job Corps student, Kaseem Lewis, walked the stage at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, N.Y. to recieve his Associates Degree! Kaseem was able to acheive this goal through Job Corps A.C.T. program which allows students to remain as a...
Glenmont Auto Students Visit Mercedes-Benz Auto Show at Keeler Motor Cars
On Saturday, April 23rd, Auto Technology Instructor, Mr. Van der Wouden escorted Auto Tech students to a special event held at Keeler Motor Car in Latham, NY. Members of the Mercedes-Benz Club greeted our students and introduced themselves. They then took our...
Glenmont Job Corps Students Give Back: Global Youth Service Day
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 Glenmont Job Corps Center students participated in the Town of Colonie’s Global Youth Service Day. Peer Leadership Coordinator Ms. Watts escorted Sabas Barron III, Natiya Catts, Yasmine Melendez-Morales, and Derrick Mason to the Beltrone...
Glenmont Job Corps Celebrates Earth Day
On Friday April 22nd, 2016, Glenmont Job Corps students and staff celebrated Earth Day. Despite some light rain, our students and staff started the day by organizing into groups to clean up the center grounds. As always, our students were ready to put out their best...
Glenmont Y2Y Ambassadors Join Troy March and Rally
Y2Y Troy peace rally 4-2016 On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 Glenmont Job Corps Center’s Youth2Youth Ambassadors joined with Sage College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York for a march and rally in recognition of National Crime Victims Week. The march...
Glenmont Culinary Students Visit SCCC, Possible Future Alma Mater
SCCC tour 4-2016Recently, Glenmont Job Corps Center and Schenectady County Community College cooperated to establish a Memorandum of Understanding that will enable our students to study there as part of our ACT program. This opportunity is of particular interest to...
Glenmont Student Leaders Run Center for “Manager for a Day” Event!
manager for a day - Snape manager for a day- Thomas On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 Glenmont Job Corps’ student leaders were chosen to spend the day as managers of various departments on center. These students were each assigned to shadow one GJCC manager for the entire...
Glenmont Students Visit 3-D Printer Demonstration at Bethlehem Library
Students Robyn Hartz, Imari Armstrong, Raven Ward and Elizabeth Ramos visited the Bethlehem Library on Saturday April 2, 2016. During their visit, they were able to tour the library and learn about the various books and other media that the library offers.Our students...
Glenmont Green Team Committee: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at GJCC
Glenmon Job Corps Student Government's Green Team Committee Chairmen Joshua Graham and Delvon Shepherd work diligently to ensure that recyclable plastic bottles are not wasted here at Glenmont Job Corps Center. Recently, Student Government Association had a Recycle...
Glenmont Reading Students Visit SUNY Albany
students visit suny 4-2016 On Friday, April 2, 2016 seven students from Reading 1 went on a field trip to the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. There, students were provided the opportunity to sit in on an actual college class to experience what it would...
Glenmont JCC Representatives Attend Youth Conference
From March 21 to 23, 2016 Glenmont Job Corps Center participated in the NYATEP Youth Academy Conference held at the Holiday Inn in Saratoga Springs, NY. GJCC Center Director, Deborah Snape, OA/CTS Director Gayle Pausley, Business Community Liaison Ann Marie Morin and...
Glenmont Student Leaders Hold Youth 2 Youth: Partners for Peace Rally
Glenmont Job Corps Center’s Youth to Youth: Partnership for Peace ambassadors held their first program of the year to rally against bullying and violence on Thursday March 17, 2016 at 7:00pm in the auditorium. The event started off with our Y2Y ambassadors introducing...
Glenmont JCC Students Serve Those in Need at Capital City Rescue Mission
captial mission photo 3-2016 On Saturday, March 12, 2016 students Monica Scott, Dah Kwe, Imari Armstrong, Tara Davis, Elizabeth Ramos and Robyn Hartz all joined together with our Peer Leadership Coordinator Ms. Watts to volunteer at the Capital City Rescue Mission....
Glenmont Job Corps CNA Students Host First-Ever Health Fair
health fair 3-2016 On Tuesday, March 8th, 2016the CNA class hosted a Health Fair for all of the staff here on center. The students worked incredibly hard to prepare their presentations for the fair. They demonstrated their trade knowledge and skills by taking...
Glenmont Job Corps Center CTS Spotlight: Michael Green
Michael Green 2-16 Michael Green enrolled into Glenmont Job Corps Center on March 3rd, 2015 and while here, completed the Facilities Maintenance trade. Throughout his enrollment, Michael was a positive contributing member to the Glenmont JCC community and demonstrated...
Security Student Works at Washington Armory’s NXT Wrestling Event
Last Saturday, Security student Ezekiel Hamilton worked a security detail at Albany’s Washington Armory that hosted a NXT wrestling event. Ezekiel worked for Joe Pazzaglia, owner of PSTI security company based out of Johnstown, NY. Ezekiel Hamilton Ezekiel met Joe...
Congratulations to Glenmont’sNewest Security Graduates!
security grads 2-16 Two members of the Security/MilCap team have met the prerequisites to graduate today, Friday, February 26th, 2016. Ms. Brionna Pierre and Ms. Alexa Johnson both have commitments for interviews starting Monday of next week. We wish them both the...