October 4, 2021
Berry Global Youth Internship ProgramBeginning in 2014, AJAC partnered with the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) to provide a 12-week pre-apprenticeship training to incarcerated young men living in a DCYF transitional…
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July 19, 2021
AJAC Trains Opportunity Youth for Manufacturing CareersBeginning in 2014, AJAC partnered with the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) to provide a 12-week pre-apprenticeship training to incarcerated young men living in a DCYF transitional…
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March 5, 2021
Blue Origin Apprentice Talks Manufacturing Academy & ApprenticeshipNyck Davis spent his afternoons measuring objects around his house. The COVID-19 pandemic forced Nyck to reimagine himself, not as a former automotive technician at Mercedes Benz, but as a…
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November 30, 2020
She Was Ready for a Fresh Start, Now She’s Got a Fresh CareerShe was ready for a fresh start, now she’s got a fresh career | Renton Reporter Connect to training – and employers hungry for new talent – in advanced manufacturing.…
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November 3, 2020
Juvenile Rehabilitation Students Harvest Opportunity to Give BackIt’s shortly after 8 o’clock in the morning on a farm outside of Tacoma, Washington. Summer has ended and the mornings have become brisk with a layer of fog blanketing…
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February 26, 2020
Our Mission. Their Story.Meet LaDante Weems—a formerly incarcerated youth and now graduate of the AJAC Juvenile Rehabilitation Manufacturing Academy program—tells his story on becoming a full-time employee at Tech Marine. We at AJAC…
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January 31, 2020
AJAC Provides Apprenticeship Preparation Program For High School StudentsAJAC is launching a new Manufacturing Academy program in Federal Way through a partnership with the Federal Way Boys & Girls Club, Truman High School and a grant from Aspen…
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September 23, 2019
Manufacturing Academy Students Develop Financial Stability Through New Wells Fargo PartnershipThe Wells Fargo Foundation, established in the U.S. as a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization in 1980, is the company’s primary philanthropic funding arm. In 2018, the foundation donated nearly half…
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August 22, 2019
The Boy WonderWhen you walk into AJAC’s Manufacturing Academy at South Seattle College-Georgetown Campus the first thing you’ll notice is the intimidating computer numerical controlled (CNC) and manual machines scattered around the…
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