JOB CORPS Students and staff can now feel they know more about what's going on around the Wind River Job Corps since we launched a new digital and hard copy newsletter, WRTalkAbout. While a limited number of hard copies are available on campus, students and staff received the...
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Alaska Job Corps ‘hard hat’ students team up to construct new Center building
Over the last year, a team of Alaska Job Corps students from the carpentry, building construction technology and electrical trades united to build a new Security/Transportation Office at the entrance to the Center. The new building serves as a welcome center and...
Gazebo Grand Opening After Summer of Construction
For several months, the Building Construction Technology and Cement students have been rehabbing the male gazebo. At the Joliet Job Corps Center, the open-air structure is an important place. Students go there to meet, chat and enjoy a little down time during the...
Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Labor Visits Treasure Island Job Corps
Treasure Island Job Corps was honored to have the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor Portia Wu on center. During her visit, Assistant Secretary Wu toured our culinary department and enjoyed a brick-oven pizza lunch on our Michelle Obama Green Acre...
“Without a doubt, I’m 100% proof of Job Corps’ Success”
Twenty-two years ago Glenn Evans was a student at the Alaska Job Corps. This afternoon he was a mentor at the Alaska Job Corps for 75 students in the hard hat trades. Glenn is a successful business man, working for Columbia Hydronics Company. He started his career in...
Remodeling the Gazebo
As a Career Technical Skills Training project, the Building Construction Technology and Cement Trades are updating a gazebo at the Center. The work began the last week of May, said Joe Ryan, BCT Instructor. The projected completion date is June 30. About 20 students...
HVAC Certifiations a Key to Great Pay
Building Construction Technology student Arthur Nance is preparing to enroll in a HVAC certification class in a partnership between the St. Louis Job Corps and the Metropolitan Training Alliance located at the MET Center in St. Louis. The program is offered in...
Representative from Senator Blunt’s Office Visits St. Louis Job Corp
John Scates from Senator Blunt’s St. Louis District Office visited the center to meet with Regan L. Fitzgerald Director of Public Policy Adams & Associates, Inc. Mr. Scates was greeted at the front gate by Student Government Association President Wyatt...
A New Instructor Joins the Joliet Job Corps Center Team
The Joliet Job Corps Center has a new Building Construction Technology instructor. Chris Flanagan joined the team on Jan. 6, but he already knows quite a bit about the program -- in 2005, he was a student at the Atterbury Job Corps Center in Edinburgh, Indiana. Mr....
Profile of Success: Winston Facey
Shown here is Winston Facey, graduate of Building Construction Technology. While at Westover he was elected as Student Government President by his peers. He conducted field learning at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Springfield and continued working...