JOB CORPS Seven Students from the Pine Ridge Job Corps Conservation Center recently attended Dr. Karen Enos'class on Methods of Teaching Elementary Social Studies at Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska. The students shared their experiences while they were in refugee...
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Pine Ridge Job Corps Painting Students Recognized for Professionalism
Pine Ridge Job Corps Career Technical Painting Students were recognized for their community work at Hay Springs, Nebraska, High School by Hay Springs Superintendent of Schools Stephen Pummel. He wrote: On behalf of the Hay Springs School District I want to thank you...
Pine Ridge Job Corps’ Student Government Donates to Veterans’ Cause
Nyakhor Dobuol, vice president of student government at the Pine Ridge Job Corps, presented a $500 donation for the Honor Flight program for World War II Veterans to Lowell Meunchau, one of the area vets who will be on the area’s second Honor Flight to Washington,...
Pine Ridge Job Corps Assists US Fish and Wildlife
Pine Ridge Job Corps' Green Club in Chadron, Nebraska, assisted the US Fish and Wildlife Service in planting 8,000 Willow Trees along the Box Butte Creek, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on June 1st. There were over fifty students and two staff who participated with...
Pine Ridge Green Club Celebrates Earth Day
The Pine Ridge Job Corps’ Green Club was busy on Earth Day 2011. The students toured the Upper Niobrara Natural Resource District. Manager, Lyndon Vogt, gave a tour of the facility which included the tree coolers, automated planting equipment, and water pumping...
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP GROUP VISITS PINE RIDGE
(Left) CJ McCabe, Lynn Mathis, John Morford, Karen Hald, Lori Frederick, Annie Loutzenhiser, Amy Halversen, Vanessa Quevedos, Todd Rickenbach, Justin Hagg, Deb Cottier, and Keesha Petties DELTA ( Dawes-county Entrepreneur and Leadership Training Academy)...
Paw Law Eh Graduates from Pine Ridge Job Corps with Honors
Paw Law Eh came to Pine Ridge Job Corps two years ago. She graduated in January to begin work as a Certified Nursing Assistant/Medical Aide. Paw Law entered the program speaking virtually no English and recently obtained her High School Diploma. She was selected as...
Pine Ridge Students Receive Medical Training in the Community
The Pine Ridge Job Corps Health Occupations Career Technical Trainees gain invaluable, on-the-job training at several of the medical facilities located in the area. The students are in training to become CNA’s (Certified Nursing Assistants). They have to complete a...
PINE RIDGE JOB CORPS NEWSLETTER
Pine Ridge Job Corps October Newsletter 2010 Allow a few moments for PDF Download
Students Tour National Building Company
The welding students from Pine Ridge Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center, Chadron, Nebraska, recently took a field trip to the B&C Steel Corporation in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The company is one of the largest commercial steel building manufacturers in the...
Pine Ridge Builds Partnership with Western Nebraska College
The Health Occupations Career Training students and their instructors from Pine Ridge Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center in Chadron, Nebraska visited Western Nebraska Community College at Alliance, Nebraska on September 22nd. The students were welcomed by...
Pine Ridge Job Corps “Green Club” Makes Adobe Bricks.
Pine Ridge Job Corps “Green Club” students took a field trip in August to the Black Hills and learned the principles of how to mix a combination of clay, sand, Portland cement, and water to use in rammed earth construction and compressed earth blocks (CEB’S) The...
Cristian S. Finds Purpose…
I was doing some research to find a vocational school and came across an institute that would change my life forever. It was Job Corps, a federally funded program that helps young adults to further educate themselves and find jobs. This was just the opportunity that...
Pine Ridge Job Corps Works on Community Project
Students from the Cement Mason and Craft Laborers Career Technical Trades of the Pine Ridge Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center, Chadron, Nebraska, poured concrete footings to a dog kennel for the city of Hemingford, Nebraska on August 6th. The Cement Mason...