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News Release: Russell JAG-K Hosts Harvesting Ceremony to Celebrate Successful Summer Internships
By Ryah Klima |
September 12, 2025 “I want you to know this is the opportunity of a lifetime,” Cambrea Solze, a senior at Russell High School stated as she reflected on her time in the JAG-K program. “You need to steal it while you can.” Solze recently finished an internship in the Radiology department at Russell Regional…
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KRSL Radio, Aug. 20th, 2025. – Click to see original article The Russell City Council held their regular meeting on Tuesday, August 19, at 4:30 pm at the Council Chambers in City Hall. Multiple awards given out, new ordinances passed, and a big update about the Russell Play Park Project stick out from the meeting. To…
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News Release: JAG-K Students Place in National Competition in Indianapolis
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Seventeen students representing Kansas placed in national competitions at the Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) National Career Development Conference (NCDC) in Indianapolis last week.
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News Release: JAG-K Month with the KBA Teaches Students about Financial Literacy, Career Opportunities
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Members of the Kansas Bankers Association (KBA) teamed up with JAG-K throughout April to educate students about opportunities in the banking industry as well as tips on financial literacy.
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News Release: Wichita-area JAG-K Students Learn about Plumbing, HVAC
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JAG-K participants from Wichita Northwest High School and Circle High recently visited the Plumbers & Pipefitters office in Wichita to learn about training opportunities in plumbing and HVAC.
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News Release: JAG-K Students Participate in “Marine for a Day” Activity
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More than 60 JAG-K participants from 10 different schools recently took part in “Marine for a Day” events hosted by the 9th Marine Corps District Recruiting Station in Kansas City.
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News Release: Kansas JAG-K Students Attend Leadership Development Conference at KU
For the first time in more than 19 months, Jobs for America’s Graduates-Kansas (JAG-K) students gathered en masse for leadership development and inspiration from some of the organizations’ foremost supporters. The organization devoted to developing leaders for the next generation of the Kansas workforce brought nearly 400 of those students ...
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News Release: Garden City Career Specialist Wins State Staff Award
TOPEKA – Jobs for America’s Graduates-Kansas (JAG-K) announced Wednesday that Lynzee Beery was named the organization’s “Ideal Team Player” for the first quarter of FY 21. The organization announced Beery’s receipt of the award at its annual Leadership Development Conference – a gathering of students and staff from across the ...
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Hire Paths Student Feature: Travis Tolman, Cemetery Technician, City of Augusta
Hire Paths, October 11, 2021 - Click to read the original post of the article After graduating from high school in 2020, I went straight to work in the fast food industry. I had been at my job several months when I began to think about what other options I ...
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JAG-K is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that partners with students facing various barriers to success, helping them graduate high school and then on to a successful career path.