JOB CORPS Veterans Day at the Alaska Job Corps Center began with an appreciation breakfast serving homemade pancakes and custom omelets to all Veterans. This was followed by a well-organized all center assembly where 15 student and staff veterans were recognized. In addition...
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Job Corps Healing Hands Make A Difference
Usually it takes months or years to make a difference in another person’s life. But for Alaska Job Corps students, the connection was nearly instant and the distinction was clear. Stella and Kameri are both Health Occupation students...
JOB CORPS WORKS FOR COMMUNITY
Fourteen Alaska Job Corps students arrived at the Birchtree Charter School on a misty Friday morning. Each student was geared up with hard hats and safety boots. As they filed off the bus, they were uncomfortable. This was a busy and unfamiliar place. The...
Alaska Job Corps students help with Emergency Flooding
It was 3:50 on a late Friday afternoon and everyone was looking forward to the start of the weekend. But that’s also when the Alaska Job Corps Center received the call from the local police. Was there anyway students or staff could help with the frightening storm...
ALASKA JOB CORPS STUDENTS WALK THE CONSTITUTION ON CONSTITUTION DAY
Amendments to the United States Constitution were scattered all over the Job Corps Campus on Monday, September 17. Two hundred and fifty four students walked the lengthy circuit to get their Constitution passport stamped at each station. In addition to learning...
Alaska Job Corps Students Help Needy Children
Alaska Job Corps students were ready. Target employees were ready. The Salvation Army was ready. At nine AM, fifty young children arrived at the Wasilla department store. And the shopping started. This event paired school aged, needy children with an adult...
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 Job Corps Welcomes Center Director Malyn Smith
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,...
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 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...
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 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...