JOB CORPS Malyn Smith is the new Center Director of the Alaska Job Corps. Malyn has worked all over the United States in education and management roles. She has a demonstrated track record of excellence and high performance from her experiences at the Delaware Valley,...
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Alaska Job Corps takes Healthy Snacks to Children
Alaska Job Corps Culinary students and staff conducted a Let's Move event at a local gradeschool. Alaska Job Corps students taught the children about healthy snacks and nutrition. They explained the "Let's Move" Logo and served the children a afternoon healthy...
Alaska Job Corps Chef Wins National Contest at Washington DC Nutrition Summit
Margie Shay, Alaska Job Corps Food Service Supervisor from Lazy Mountain, joined other Job Corps chefs from across the country in the nation’s capital food competition. The chefs were part of the second annual "Job Corps’ Top Chefs: Creating Healthy and Nutritious...
National Commencement Day is Celebrated by Alaska Job Corps
National Commencement Day is Tuesday August 30 and thousands of graduates will walk down the aisle at Job Corps Centers all across the United States. Palmer, Alaska is the local location of these special ceremonies because it is the home of the Alaska Job Corps...
“Let’s Move Event”stopped by Slow Moving Moose
There were fast sweaty races. There were complicated obstacle courses. There were colorful hoola hoops. There were loud and active training games. And then there was this moose. And everything shut down--fast. At the Alaska Job Corps Center, moose are frequent...
Successful Alaska Student Completes Job Corps Program
Successful student completes Alaska Job Corps Center program “This is the first book I’ve ever read,” says Chao Her, a student at the Alaska Job Corps Center. Chao holds a book entitled, “Mentor—The Kid and the CEO,” by Tom Pace. It’s not a costly book but Chao...
Alaska Job Corp’s students Invited to International Water Conference
Alaska Job Corps Water/Wastewater students participated in last week's Annual Conference of the American Water Works Association. This large conference met in Washington DC with over 11,000 attendees from the US, Canada, Mexico and other parts of the world. Three...
Alaska Job Corps Students Are Part of Community
Alaska Job Corps Students collected over 140 bags of garbage in a large community-clean up this year. Community service, paired with training opportunities, is an ongoing part of the Alaska Job Corps Career Training program. Last weekend students participated in a...
Faces of Job Corps–Alaska student and Service Dog are Successful Team
Alaska Job Corps is home to visiting wildlife on center, including moose, porcupine, eagles, beavers and a red fox. But never a domestic dog. Until last June. That is when student Summer Horton (and her dog) enrolled at the Alaska Job Corps Center to begin the...
Job Corps honors R. Sargent Shriver
Alaska Job Corps business student Alison DelaRosa lowers the flag to half mast to honor R. Sargent Shriver, who passed away today. He was responsible for launching the U.S. Peace Corps in the early 1960’s. He was an activist and the chief architect of President...
Alaska Job Corps Center partners with Regional Recycle Facility
Alaska Job Corps students were part of the ribbon cutting of the new $6.5 million dollar regional recycling facility in the Matanuska Susitna Borough of Alaska. Alaska Job Corps Culinary Arts students decorated, prepared and served the four large sheet cakes for the...