Featured Student

Featured Student: Javier Edwards

Name: Javier Edwards

Age: 18

Hometown: Danbury, Connecticut

Job Corps Center: Westover Job Corps Center, Chicopee, Massachusetts

Occupational Area: Business Technologies

Education: I obtained my High School Diploma online at Westover Job Corps Center and completed the Business Technology program. I am taking tutoring classes over the summer in the Plato Lab to increase my math skills, and I hope to enter the ACT program in the fall.

Favorite hobby: I enjoy reading, especially about history.

I joined Job Corps because: I saw it as a great opportunity to change my life.

Job Corps is helping me achieve my goal: I am learning new employability skills.

The thing I like most about Job Corps: I like the different, cultural mix of people on center.

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Page last updated: Monday, March 08, 2010