With baby boomers reaching retirement age and the population in general needing health care services, the training in this field has to be state of the art. “The time is now for incorporating high technology in the classroom, growing medicinal herbs, and learning how...
Muhlenberg Cuts Ribbon on Gynasium Renovation
The Community Relations Council and Muhlenberg center staff members conducted a Ribbon Cutting to celebrate the completion of the renovation of the campus gymnasium. The renovation, completed with American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds, consisted of a new gym...
Cascades Job Corps Students Make A Difference
Cascades Job Corps Students Make A Difference Cascades Job Corps students teamed up with a local radio Station and other businesses with a Recycle Awareness program during National Make A Difference Day. Two crews were in place at a shopping mall and recycling center...
Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center is Going Green!
Paul Simon recently purchased three electric utility vehicles to be used by the staff on campus. The small trucks are used by the maintenance staff and the security department. This new change is helping PSCJCC reduce our carbon footprint and still be able to do...
The Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps and the Chicago Police Department Team
The 010th District Chicago Police Department and the Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center teamed up for a Green Service Activity. The students and staff participated in a city park clean up right across the street from the police station. The PSCJCC and the 010th...
Homestead and Miami Job Corps Centers join America’s largest day of service
On Friday, October 22, 2010, in honor of Make A Difference Day, Homestead Job Corps Center and Miami Job Corps Center will be collaborating with Roots In The City, led by Dr. Marvin Dunn, in a beautification service project for the Overtown community. Roots In The...
KEYSTONE WINS CTS TRAINING COMPETITION
Keystone Job Corps Center won first place for the third consecutive year in the 7th annual (CTS) Career Technical Skills Training Competition sponsored by the Philadelphia Region of Job Corps. The center received the first place award for assisting the National...
Treasure Island Job Corp’s Urban Farm- An Introduction
Greetings from the Treasure Island Job Corps Center Urban Farm Coordinator! I’m so happy to be here and incredibly excited about what we’re going to accomplish together in the form of this Urban Farm. An amazing vision and some great designs were already waiting for...
Power Generating Station
One of Tongue Point Job Corps Center’s green projects, funded through ARRA monies, is the construction of a 4 kW on-line power generating station using a 3 kW wind turbine and 1 kW solar panel array. Students in the Carpentry, Cement,...
Solar energy in Roswell
Students from the HBI trades were recognized at the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the outdoor solar classroom located at Eastern New Mexico University Roswell. This demonstration platform showcases stationary, single axis and double axis solar farm designs and...
Barranquitas Job Corps Academy – Camuy River Caverns Field Trip
On August 18, 2010 a group of 39 students and staff from Barranquitas Job Corps Academy (BJCA) went to a magnificent field trip to one of the biggest and more appreciated natural resources in the island of Puerto Rico, Las Cavernas del Río Camuy. It’s located on the...
Barranquitas Job Corps Academy – Green Community Activity
Twenty-eight Barranquitas Job Corps students, the Facilities and Maintenance Instructor, the Science Teacher and the Mountain Explorer President participated in a big planting project for the School of the Community of “El Llanos” at Aibonito, PR. The students...
Training for more
Hubert H Humphrey Job Corps Center is working with HIRED as part of the RENEW MN program. Local businesses and colleges were brought together to design courses for advanced certification in industries that are advancing green technology methods. These programs are...
Talking Leaves Job Corps is PepsiCo’s beta site
PepsiCo and WasteManagement Corp selected Talking Leaves Job Corps as its beta site for the Dream Machine program. The center was provided a laptop computer loaded with the beta copy of their software as well as a scanner. The student lead "Green Team" collects and...
Detroit Job Corps Receives City of Detroit Certificate of Appreciation
The Mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing launched his new Community Access Centers on September 29,2010. These centers will give the citizens of Detroit enhances city departmental services in their communities. The mayor thanked and gave Certificates of Appreciation to...
DJCC partners with Mayor’s Community Beautification Project
The Detroit Job Corps Center participated in the Mayor of Detroit's Community Beautification " Adopt a Block " Project on Saturday, August 14,2010. Six trainees from the Facility Maintenance Trade and the Business and Community Liaison joined forces with the Morning...
Lighting the way
Students in the Electrical Wiring trade have been earning their keep over the past few weeks. They have been tirelessly been replacing the sodium vapor sidewalk lights with much more efficient means of illumination. The lights the shine on the sidewalk will soon not...
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...
The Cement Masonry & the Carpentry trades are busy pouring and pounding
The Cement Masonry trade and the Carpentry trade are busy building two pavilions on center. The instructor of the Cement Masonry trade is Keith Edgington and Carpentry's instructor is Shawn Hale. The instructors are always working hard to prepare our students for...
Adding sunshine to meals
The students in facilities maintenance have brightened the day of anyone who goes into the cafeteria. a new daylight tube system now provides the light during daylight hours so we have a brighter breakfast, brighter lunch, and until daylight savings ends a sun lit...