The Charleston Job Corps Center’s, Office Administration career technical trade attends the annual WV Makes Festival on Friday, October 6, 2017 in Huntington, WV.

“More than 80 makers from 17 West Virginia counties and the states of Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania will exhibit their creations,” said Mike Friel, public information specialist at RCBI. “The festival celebrates makers and taps into the inventive community of entrepreneurs and innovators so they can interact with other makers.”

The festival was supported by local, state and regional groups and businesses including Bernzomatic, Edward Tucker Architects, Marshall University Research Corp., Sterling Supply Co. and the West Virginia Manufacturers Association.

Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16-24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. The Charleston Job Corps Center is overseen by the Philadelphia Regional Office of Job Corps and is operated by Horizons Youth Services.