AVTEC Provides Job Training

The Alaska Vocational Technical Center, a division of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, has been educating Alaskans for good jobs in business and industry for more than 30 years. AVTEC’s mission is to provide Alaskans with the very best career training available, and to make sure that Alaska’s companies have a secure and steady source of high-quality employees for their long-range success.

AVTEC students can choose from comprehensive programs in nearly 20 different fields, each with industry-approved certifications and/or licenses. Each program emphasizes small classes, hands-on instruction, and one-on-one assistance to meet training needs. The job placement rate for graduates is over 98 percent. The tuition fees are affordable and financial assistance and support services are available. Graduates are Alaskan mechanics, chefs, EMTs, industrial electricians, health care providers, ship’s captains, welders, construction and maintenance specialists, physical plant technicians, information technicians, accounting clerks, administrative assistants, and power plant operators.

For more information, visit www.avtec.alaska.edu or call (907) 224-3322.

RAISE Program Offers Free Tutoring

Southcentral Foundation’s RAISE Program offers free tutoring twice weekly for children in grades K-5 during the summer months. Youth ages 14 to 19 are trained on how to tutor children in reading and math and will be available for two 4-hour sessions twice per week. The Cross-Age Tutoring Program will be located at 1818 W. Northern Lights Blvd. and will be available June 30 through August 20, 2003, from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For additional information or an application packet, please contact Emil Marrs at (907) 729-5015.