Distance Learning Efforts Earn Honor for WJU Challenger Learning Center

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The Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University has been honored for its many videoconference-based programs that are reaching students around the world. The Challenger Learning Center recently received a 2011-2012 Pinnacle Award from the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration. The award is presented annually to organizations delivering outstanding K-12, standards-based, interactive videoconferencing programs.…

Tech Scholars Program: Supporting West Virginians in Technical Programs

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By Greg Morris In an effort to provide immediate and meaningful resolution to the skilled-labor shortages within the state, the West Virginia Community and Technical College System has launched the Tech Scholars Program. This new and innovative employer partnership program seeks to strengthen the quality of the state’s technical work force by providing scholarship funding…

Christopher Vaught

Christopher Vaught

2013 Young Guns

President & CEO, Vaught, Inc. By Samantha Redd Christopher Vaught, though not likely to jump out of an airplane anytime soon, is a calculated risk taker. His most daring risk? Leaving a great job to embrace entrepreneurialism. In 2008, Vaught left his job at Summers County ARH Hospital, driven by his desire for the next…

Ryan Taylor

Ryan Taylor

2013 Young Guns

President, Pickering Associates By Jennifer Jett Some might say Ryan Taylor’s project management career came naturally because construction runs in the family. Others might suggest the Legos he played with as a child introduced him to an empowering world of imagination where he could use his hands to create. Either way, Taylor has built his own…

Doug Skaff, Jr.

Doug Skaff, Jr.

2013 Young Guns

Managing Partner, Building & Remodeling Warehouse; Vice President, Skaff Development Company; Member, West Virginia House of Delegates  By Marta Tankersley Bringing people together just might be what Doug Skaff does best. It all started when he became student body president at South Charleston High School and was taken under the wing of N. David Stern,…