NORTHLANDS JOB CORPS and the Bixby Library are running a pilot Wi-Fi program in Vergennes that could become a model for the other 125 Job Corps centers nationwide. Pictured are Bixby Library IT committee member Jon Sullivan, left, Job Corps Business Community Liaison Ron Dedrik, Student Government Association President Evan Gardzina, Job Corps Center Director George Sabol and SGA Community Relations Liaison Peter Blash.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
VERGENNES — Phase Two of the Northlands Job Corps student Internet Wi-Fi arrived much more quickly than Phase One, which was the product of a yearlong effort by Northlands executives, its Student Government Association, and Bixby Library officials and volunteers.
On Wednesday last week, the Vergennes center’s 220 young vocational students who gathered in and around the campus chapel, home of the center’s new Wi-Fi hub, had for the first time to enter user names and passwords to log onto the network.
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