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Hopeworks
News: June
2003
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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
This summer
Hopeworks will be partnering with the New Jersey Tree Foundation, Juvenile Justice Commission, Camden Empowerment Zone and the Camden Housing Authority to provide these summer jobs and opportunities. A complete listing
of our available summer programs and job opportunities can be found by clicking here. |
| Hope Through School |
| The
Hope Through School Program ended its second year at the end of May.
The
program was a resounding success, having had 89 youth participate
in the program. Some 20 youth received after-school jobs through the
program. Two
of our HTS graduates, Juan
Corona and Angel
Rodriguez, have been hired to help teach in HopeworksVideo this
summer. Hope Through School youth earned over 66 hours of college credits
with Angel
Rodriguez, who just completed his JavaScript test, taking home
12 credits himself! |
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Trainees Participate In Online GIS Course
The
new crew of GIS youth: Josh, Jashua, Elyse,
Mario and Endrix who
were hired in April--have been hard at work with their training, preparing
for client work and the summer ahead. One part of their training is to
to take an online class from the University of Montana. As part of that class,
each of the youth has to produce a GIS project. The projects are exciting
and a brief summary of each can be found by clicking here.
Using Skills In
The Community
| HopeworksHardware is doing well. A team of three
youth has successfully set up a wireless network in the offices
of Camden Lutheran Housing and Camden Center for Law and Social
Justice. Both clients are very excited about their new broadband
connections and computer upgrades! |
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On The Move
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San Diego: Hopeworks will
again be heading to San Diego to attend the ESRI conference.
We are planning on
bringing 10 youth
with us this year (up from 4 last year!). |
Of special note, Hopeworks will be
highlighted on the
main stage during the opening plenary session.
The conference draws over 15,000 from around the world. To
prepare for this, ESRI sent a video crew to Hopeworks last month.
The
crew spent two days filming and interviewing all sorts of people.
It was exciting and we are happy to be going! |
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• Congratulations to Marcus Williams, James
Jones,
Mark Ford and Rolando
Pomales who all completed
successful semesters of college. Next year, they should be
joined by at least six
more Hopeworks youth who will be entering
the hallowed halls of higher education.
• Congratulations
to Danny
Sanchez, Juan
Ayala, Jr. and Erica
Lundberg who all began their college careers this month by taking computer animation
at Camden County College. Erica and Juan are registered to begin their first
semester in college come September.
• Congratulations
to Danny
Sanchez for completing
his Illustrator and Photoshop tests. Danny will receive 3 college credits
in Computer Graphics at Camden County College. • Congratulations
to Frank Cook (Hopeworks Board member) who had an article
published in this month's issue of the Harvard Business
Review . The article is titled "Uncovering
Hidden Value in a Midsize Manufacturing Company."
You can read an abstract by clicking here.
• April
Claggett (former web designer at Hopeworks) and her husband Jonathon
had their first child in April.
Welcome to our world Caleb Claggett!
View our latest web site work by visiting our newest clients' sites at: 
F.X.
Cook & Company
www.fxcookco.com
Parada San Juan Bautista
www.sjbp.org
Healing Mama Productions
www.healingmama.org
(see more in the Web
Gallery)
Click the map below to see one of our recent GIS projects
(see more in the GIS Map Gallery)
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