JOB CORPS The gym was full and there were no more chairs. Or bleachers. Or standing room. The place was jam packed on Friday, Feb 26 when 57 students graduated at the Alaska Job Corps in Palmer. Community leaders, friends, family, alumni, colleagues, employers and staff watched...
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Alaska Job Corps students graduate into High Paying and Long Term Careers In Water Management
At nearly any Water plant in the State of Alaska, you will see former Job Corps students. The Job Corps Water/Waste Water program has graduated dozens and dozens of certified students, whom have sat successfully for their State Boards and gone on to high paying and...
Representative Young Supports Job Corps Student
An Alaskan Job Corps student, Megan Dauphinee, won the National Job Corps Oratory Competition two weeks ago in Washington DC. She met Alaska's Representative Young in his office and told him about the Job Corps program. "He was very supportive," Megan said. "It...
Alaska Job Corps Students Job Shadow Professionals
There is no more valuable nor effective "hands-on" training than job shadowing. And that is why, on February 2, National Groundhog Job Shadow Day, sixty-four Alaska Job Corps students participated as "job shadows" at a number of professional sites in South Central...
ALASKA GRADUATES ENVISION POSSIBILITIES
As Glenn Evans looked out over the crowd of anxioux students, he remembered sitting nervously in that same audience, eighteen years earlier. Dressed well, in a nice suit, he nodded knowingly to the Palmer Job Corps students, “I know it’s hard. But you have to...
Alaska Frontiersman Article details Alaska Job Corps Public Service
Alaska Job Corps Center students and staff take public service very seriously. It is a constant in the center training curriculum. This week the local paper, which serves a region (the size of West Virginia) ran a full story on Alaska Job Corps Center efforts for...
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...