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Apprenticely Partners with the EAST Initiative to Promote Apprenticeships as a Career Pathway for Students

In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week (November 18-22), Apprenticely is proud to announce its partnership with the EAST Initiative to promote the value of apprenticeships as a future career path for students throughout Arkansas. EAST is a community service-based elective course in the K-12 environment across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. “EAST is education accelerated by […]

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Apprenticely Celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with a Series of Engaging Events

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – Apprenticely, a nonprofit dedicated to growing Arkansas’s workforce through the proven model of registered apprenticeship, is proud to join Arkansas employers and state and local workforce leaders in celebrating the successful growth of apprenticeships in Arkansas during National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) this November 17th-24th. “A growing number of Arkansas employers in

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Growing Arkansas’ Advanced Energy Workforce at the emPOWER Arkansas Expo in March 2024

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The Arkansas Advanced Energy Foundation, the Arkansas Apprenticeship Alliance, the Arkansas Office of Skills Development, and Greentech Renewables are proud to announce the first annual emPOWER Arkansas Expo, held on March 13th, 2024, 10am-3pm at the Saline County Career and Technical Campus in Benton, Arkansas. At this Arkansas advanced energy industry

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ACDS Becomes the Statewide Apprenticeship Intermediary Across Multiple Industry Sectors

ACDS is announcing that it will serve to provide the common process for implementing registered apprenticeship across the state of Arkansas.

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The WBL Chronicles: November 2021

A FEEL-GOOD, FEEL-BAD, FEEL-GREAT STORY Who says the tech world doesn’t have heart? Kristen Shryock Work-Based Learning Manager and Senior Talent Recruiter, ACDS IT’S ALL ABOUT the attitude. The nuts and bolts of being a recruiter of talent can be eye-glazingly tedious if you let it—all those resumes washing across the desk! Or it can

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Annual Report 2020

As we review 2020, we are humbled at the progress we’ve been able to make with you at our side. We look forward to what is on the horizon in 2021 and beyond! Thank you for your continued support of the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences and all things Information Technology in Arkansas! Please check

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Tech Partnership Launches New IT Apprenticeship Program in NWA

A TRIO OF the state’s elite tech entities has banded together to create a new IT apprenticeship program in Northwest Arkansas. The Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) has partnered with the Northwest Arkansas Council, the Northwest Technical Institute (NWTI), the Office of Skills Development (OSD) – a division of the Arkansas Department of Commerce to develop the program. “This is

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Honorable Asa Hutchinson Cuts Ribbon on Tech Depot in Newport

For Immediate ReleaseNewport Economic Development Commissiondirector@newportaredc.org870-523-1009 The Honorable Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas, joined a group of dignitaries and local citizens on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 to officially open Tech Depot, an information technology apprenticeship academy in Newport, Arkansas. Tech Depot will offer IT training for individuals who are employed as apprentices to Arkansas companies

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Press Release: Northeast Arkansas IT Training Collaboration to Begin in Newport, Arkansas

The Newport Economic Development Commission and ASU-Newport are partnering with the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) to bring a regional Information Technology training center to downtown Newport, Arkansas. The training center will feature apprenticeship training programs for a wide range of Arkansas companies in the areas of Computer Coding and Software Development, Data Analysis, and

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Press Release: Arkansas Receives Department of Labor Grant

For immediate releaseApril 8, 2020 Arkansas Receives Department of Labor Grant LITTLE ROCK – The State of Arkansas has been awarded a U.S. Department of Labor grant for $2 million, to be distributed over four years. The grant—entitled “Apprenticeships: Closing the Skills Gap”—became effective on March 1, 2020, and is being led by the Arkansas

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