MOBILE WORKS
PRESIDENT SYDNEY RAINE AWARDS $165,000 Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 MOBILE WORKS
PRESIDENT SYDNEY RAINE AWARDS $165,000 IN
AEROSPACE SCHOLARSHIPS TO
11 MOBILE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Graduating High School Seniors
Awarded Scholarships To Complete Two Year Aviation Degrees At
Enterprise-Ozark Community College's Brookley Field Industrial Complex
MOBILE, Alabama - May 30, 2006 - Mobile Works Inc. announced
that Sydney Raine, President, awarded aerospace scholarships totaling
over $165,000 in May 2006 to eleven Mobile County area graduating high
school seniors to complete two year aviation degrees at Enterprise-Ozark
Community College at their Brookley Field Industrial Complex.
The
students all had an aviation focus under the Mobile County Public School
System's Career Technical Education Dual Enrollment program, in which
they received aviation training and work experience while taking
college-level courses in the Enterprise-Ozark aviation program at the
Brookley campus, while also still attending high school. The students
each took either one course or two courses, either of which scenario
qualified them to enter Enterprise-Ozark's two-year aviation program.
The program is the only comprehensive aviation maintenance training
program in the state of Alabama and students in the program receive
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification as an airplane
mechanic, with associate's degrees in either airframe or powerplant
engine (A&P;) or an avionics (airplane electronics) curriculum.
Sydney Raine and Dr. Leida Javier-Ferrell, Vice President of
Adult and Youth Services for Mobile Works, attended Mobile County area
high school awards ceremonies during May and awarded eleven scholarships
worth up to $15,000 each to these area high school graduating
seniors:
Name School
William Bain Theodore
High School
Henry Calhoun, Jr. Murphy High
School
Aaron Guyton LeFlore High
School
Quinn Hagwood Davidson High
School
Kevin James LeFlore High School
Tau
Lam Alma Bryant High School
Jeremy
Lynn Satsuma High School
Stanley Montgomery,
Jr. Davidson High School
Gregory Morris Baker High
School
Benjamin Reed Davidson High
School
Jamie Glass Stanley Theodore High
School
Raine said, "We believe the program is vital to area
jobseekers interested in aviation careers because FAA A&P; certified
mechanics and technicians can expect to make about $30,000 a year fresh
out of school. With about two to five years of experience, annual
earnings rise to between $40,000 and $55,000 on average nationally.
Jobseekers interested in a technical career owe it to themselves to
equip themselves with the education that makes those kinds of earnings
possible."
Mobile Works provides training opportunities to all
eligible Mobile County jobseekers, with laid-off workers immediately
eligible for all programs. Jobseekers interested in receiving
employment opportunities and training resources are encouraged to go in
person to the Alabama Career Center office at 515 Springhill Plaza
Court, just off I-65 and Springhill Avenue. Prospective students
seeking information on the aviation program at Enterprise-Ozark
Community College are encouraged to call Marian Centanni at
251-438-2816, extension 5100, for more information.
Mobile Works
Inc., a local partnership of business, education, labor and community
leaders, provides businesses with training, leadership, labor market
information and employment programs designed to stimulate local business
by meeting the needs of Mobile area businesses while increasing the
available labor pool of skilled jobseekers in the Mobile area. Since
its inception in 2000, the group has invested more than $28 million
overall to support Mobile area job and educational programs. In
addition, in the 2006-2007 fiscal year alone, Mobile Works has invested
nearly $4.6 million dollars in jobs, training and economic initiatives
for all of Mobile County.
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Contact: Gia
Dinges
Director of Marketing
251-432-0909 -
phone
[email protected] - email
www.mobile-works.org -
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