JOB CORPS EJCA EJCA Culinary Arts student Sean Austin discussed with the Honorable Governor Lincoln D. Chafee the intricacies of the Rhode Island Lighthouse design of the gingerbread house. November 26, 2011 Culinary Arts students built several large gingerbread houses this...
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Boston Region ETA Youth Conference November 14 – 16, 2011
Boston Region Job Corps Director Joseph Semansky, EJCA students Kevin Badaraco-Rodriguez, Christian Brooks, Jasmine Almaraz, Cassie Lee Josephs and EJCA Center Director Joseph P. DiPina Jr. November 15th, 2011 pictured above. EJCA students had the opportunity to...
Pink Heals Breast Cancer – Fundraiser October 16, 2011
EJCA culinary students teamed up with the Exeter Fire Station to raise money for PINK HEALS. Culinary Students baked and decorated cupcakes with pink themes to sell at the annual PINK HEALS Exeter family fall fair. This is the second year that EJCA students have...
If I Could Make A School – Rhode Island
EJCA students participated in a Rhode Island Department of Education [RIDE] weekend workshop for young adults and RIDE staff on October 29, 2011. State-wide High School age students came together to collaborate with Education, Community and Business leaders to discuss...
GET MOTIVATED! Business Seminar October 3, 2011
Over 60 EJCA students and staff attended the GET MOTIVATED! business seminar that was held at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, RI on October 3, 2011. Students were honored to participate in activities and listen to nationally renowned speakers General Colin...
2011 Circle of Peace Award given to Exeter Job Corps Academy
Center Director Joseph P. DiPina Jr., Deputy Director Linda Soderberg and Career Counselor Alex Zemanovic attended the 2011 Annual meeting for the Domestic Violence Center of South County to receive their 2011 Circle of Peace Award on October 4th, 2011. DVCSC...
EJCA students hold Silent Witness Vigil
EJCA students partnered with the Domestic Violence Center of South County held a SILENT WITNESS vigil on Oct. 4th, 2011 at the Exeter campus to build awareness of the powerful effect Domestivc Violence can have on families and loved ones. EJCA students were active...
EJCA Student Leader
EJCA Student Government Association president Julie Wentzell is taking on a new challenge in her quest to become a Registered Nurse. Ms. Wentzell has been accepted into Cassasaga Job Corps Centers' prestigious LPN training program in New York. Ms. Wentzell has been a...
EJCA team “DRAGON SMOKE” brings back GOLD
EJCA Dragon Boat race team "DRAGON SMOKE" competed in Pawtucket, RI on September 10, 2011 and securedthe GOLD medal again. For the third year in a row 22 students in all, rose to the challenge with only one practice run under their belt due to Hurricane Irene weather...
RI Shared Youth Vision State Team meeting September 15, 2011
DCD Soderberg hosted the Rhode Island Shared Youth Vision State Team quarterly meeting on September 15, 2001 in the EJCA Cafe' 162. RI state representatives of the Dept. of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), Dept. of Health (DOH), RI Dept. of Education (RIDE),...
EJCA hosts Naval Seals for lunch Agust 25, 2011
EJCA ETM Ankrom hosted 5 Navy Seals corpmen from the Dental Corps of the Naval War College at Cafe' 162 on August 25th, 2011. These Sailors had attended earlier an appreciation breakfast hosted by Advanced Culinary Arts students and RI OPERATION HOMEFRONT at the...
RI Fire Academy Grand Opening July 27th, 2011
EJCA Advanced Culinary Arts students and chefs catered the grand opening event of the Rhode Island Fire Academy on July 27, 2011. The RI Association of Fire Chiefs conducted the ribbon cutting ceremony along with RI Governor Lincoln Chaffee, Senate President Teresa...
“Night at the Museum” Domestic Violence Resouce Center of South County August 16, 2011
EJCA Advanced Culinary Arts students and chefs catered and wait staffed a very special event for the Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County the evening of August 16, 2011. The event was hosted at the South County Museum in Narragansett, RI and a wonderful...
2011 South County Hot Air Balloon Festival
EJCA Student Government Association executive board members volunteered at the 2011 annual South County Hot Air Balloon festival on July 22, 2011. Students assisted with raising tents, setting up crowd control fencing and preparing fundraising booths. South Kingstown...
RI Air National Guard Open House Air Show June 25, 2011
EJCA MILPREP students were hosted at the annual RI Air National Guard Air Show on June 24, 2011. EJCA MILPREP students participated in a VIP preshow event and were able to meet with some of the many Air Force pilots, Sean D. Tucker of the Oracle team and many of Rhode...
Gloria Gemma Flames of Hope 2011
2011 Gloria Gemma “Flames of Hope” Waterfire October 8th, 2011 Providence, RI
Exeter Job Corps Academy Students Meet with Senator Jack Reed in Washington, DC on May 17, 2011
EX Leadership Students with Senator Reed Exeter Job Corps Academy (EJCA) Leadership students attended the 2011 Adams & Associates Annual Leadership Conference in Columbia, MD and Washington, DC during the week of May 15. EJCA staff Gabrielle Andos and students...
EJCA 2011 Graduation Alumni Keynote Speaker is Hired by Lockheed Martin
EJCA '09 Alumni Edson Cardoso, recent 2011 Spring Graduation keynote speaker secured employment in June 2011 with Lockheed Martin in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Cardoso will be earning over $18.00/hr and is hired for the position of sheet metalist. Mr. Cardoso graduated from...
Another Exeter Job Corps Welding Student Hired by Electric Boat/Quonset Point
Another student success story with EJCA Electric Boat welding partnership! Manufacturing Technology graduate Raquel Pereira was hired on May 9, 2011. Raquel was a 2011 Spring Graduate who completed the Maufacturing Welding program. She was hired for the fabricator...
Michael G. Cooley, Author Speaks with Exeter Job Corps Academy Students
Mr. Michael Cooley, author, CEO - Quinlan Companies and motivational speaker met with Exeter Job Corps Academy students on May 11, 2011. Recently recognized in the Providence Journal highlighting his recently released book, Rock Bottom From The Streets to Success, Mr....