Gary Job Corps Workforce Industry Council meeting
The Gary Job Corps Career Technical Training department conducts a bi-annual Career Technical Training Assessment utilizing local community training partners to audit the training curriculum utilized at the Gary Center. Melissa Valdez, Career Technical Training Manager for the Construction and Manufacturing department facilitated the overview conducted by employer partners. To ensure that the training is current to employment standards, the assessors audited curriculum, tools, and equipment oversaw the trainees working in the trades. Attending the Gary Job Corps Workforce Industry Council were representatives from ST Engineering, San Antonio; Seton Cove; Specialized Aero; Texas Carpentry & Millwrights Training; Caterpillar; Texas Army/National Guard; VTSAA ST Engineering, San Antonio; U.S. Army; Hays Co. Constable Pct. 2; ULG skilled Trades; TCU; Caldwell County Sheriff Offic; MTC Kyle Unit; Fountain People Game-time; Alsco; CTMC; Holiday Inn Resort; Hays Co. Constable Pct. 1; Specialized Aero; Dealers Electric; New Braunfels Welders Supply; Holiday Embassy Suites; Caldwell, ULG; HICY-HCR; Pictured are some of the Workforce Industry Council participants and Gary Job Corps staff member, Lisa Castillo, Grace Hernandez, John Longmire, Kevin Pringle, Eugene Walton and Melissa Valdez. Gary Job Corps photo
“Read Across America” at Travis Elementary
Launched in 1998 by NEA (National Education Association), “Read Across America” is the nation’s largest celebration of reading, focusing coast-to-coast attention on the importance and joys of reading. For over 10 years the students from the Gary Job Corps Center have participated with “Read Across America” by reading in the local elementary schools. Pictured are Gary Job Corps Student Government Association members Michelle Barboza-Briones, Reyna Vela, Flor Plancarte, Gabriel Kirk, Jessica Rivera, Caleb Burrell, Kristal Giron-Rodriguez, Ashley Casancia, Zachery Spivey, Luis Corpus, Adam Adame and Maylie Gilbert; and Texas State University students Aerial Alva, Kathy Fite, Lauren Castor, Kierra Rocio, Caitlyn Windwehen, Hailee Shook, Clint Smith and Nathaniel Parke; Travis Elementary personnel Diana Tagle-Guerrero, Emily Valdez and Scott Masini; San Marcos Police Chief Chase Stapp; former San Marcos Mayor Daniel Guerrero,; SMCISD’s Christina Chonka; and Gary staff members Patricia Beauregard and Randolph Goodman. Gary Job Corps Center photos
Pictured reading to 4th grade students are Travis staff Joe Salinas, Angie Coleman, Cheryl Antu (Educator of the Year) and Diana Tagle-Guerrero; and Gary students Gabriel Kir and Luis Corpus and staff member Patricia Beauregard.
