Superior Telegram 2/13/2015 By Maria Lockwood Northwestern High School junior Daisy Mack, front, starts a program on one of the milling machines with the help of Machine Tool Instructor Paul Kalin, back left, as eighth grade students, left to right, Tiana Hursh, Olivia Kalin and Ellie Peterson watch Wednesday at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College. Using […]
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Fox21Online.Com 2/11/2015 Maya Holmes, Reporter, mholmes@kqdsfox21.tv More than 30 girls from local schools went to Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Superior for the Diva Tech event. They got hands on experience with welding, automotive repair and other fields to pique their interest and expose them to careers where women are underrepresented. “There are a lot
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Daily Press 12/9/2014 Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (CEP, Inc.) has received a grant for $112,970 from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration through the Susan Harwood Training Grant Program. CEP, Inc. will use this grant to further expand their Center for Combustible Dust Safety and Health to provide safety
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BusinessNorth 11/20/2014 Students from Bayfield, Drummond, South Shore, and Washburn High Schools recently participated in Medical Discovery Days, a two-day healthcare exploration opportunity. They were exposed to a wide variety of healthcare professions while touring the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College – Ashland Campus. Students learned about WITCs healthcare related programs, including nursing, medical assistant, health
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Sawyer County Record 11/4/2014 Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (CEP, Inc.) recently received an implementation grant from the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health to fund the inaugural session of Rescue Divas: EMS Summer Camp for Girls. The premise of the new camp is to expose middle school girls to careers in emergency medicine in
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Price County Review 10/13/2014 In Northwest Wisconsin, the manufacturing sector is one of the region’s highest growth industries. Statewide over 16-percent of the state’s workforce is employed in manufacturing; higher than the national average of nine-percent, according to the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce. In the past few decades manufacturing jobs have transformed from dirty, low-paying
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Daily Press 10/1/2014 By Amber Mullen What does one wear to an interview? Well, for many people entering a new field of employment this decision is can be more intimidating than the interview itself. On Tuesday, Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (CEP, Inc.) unveiled their newest initiative– the Career Closet– with the goal of
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Daily Press 1/31/2014 Armed with bright pink, blinged out hard hats and a sense of adventure, 38 high school girls from the Chequamegon Bay region got to be a high-tech diva for a day. Students from Ashland, Bayfield, Butternut, Drummond, Hurley and Washburn High Schools participated in Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College’s Diva Tech, held at
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