A few years ago, YouthQuest Director Sharri Newman came away from a national afterschool conference having just learned about an emerging concept in education: “Making.” Now, the student is the teacher. Newman co-presented “Making: Understanding the Connections to Learning” during the 2015 Meeting of the National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks on Jan. 27-29 in […]

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This year marks the 8th annual Jumpstart Conference and Chemical Bank will serve as the entrepreneurial event’s corporate sponsor. The conference will be held on Feb. 26, 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Gateway Centre in Flint. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from Keynote Speaker Mark Rice, President of Loving […]

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It’s early February, and maybe you’re losing that New Year momentum. Don’t give up on your professional resolutions just yet. The Flint & Genesee Chamber of Commerce offers a large variety of business training available through Coggno, an online, on-demand program. Coggno offers thousands of training courses for employee development and certification in a variety […]

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Congratulations to ASTI Environmental, which is celebrating 30 years in business. Since it was founded on Feb. 1, 1985, ASTI has grown and diversified to provide Environmental Investigation, Remediation, Compliance and Restoration services to Industrial, Commercial, Institutional and Governmental clients across the United States. It was founded by Tom Wackerman and Peter Collins. ASTI maintains […]

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