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PJCC Hosts Health Care Symposium

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...