Apprentice/Workforce Development (AWD) program
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Apprentice/Workforce Development (AWD) program, now offered for the seventh continuous year by the Trades & Technical Department (TTD) at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC), gives the Territory’s trade practitioners the opportunity to upgrade their...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Trade Technical Department (TTD) at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has been awarded a grant from the American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) which in turn is under the federal Technical Assistance Program (TAP).
The TTD offers both regular daytime...

![Fred Suisala (foreground), Program Director of the ASCC Trade & Technical Department, drops in on one of this semester’s Architectural Drafting and Technology (ADT) classes. ADT is one of the many areas of study offered by the ASCC Apprenticeship/Workforce Development program, which has recently entered into an agreement with the ASG Tradesmen Board to streamline the process by which local tradespersons can acquire their licenses. [Photo: J. Kneubuhl] Fred Suisala (foreground), Program Director of the ASCC Trade & Technical Department and Architectural Drafting and Technology (ADT) students](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc-awd_license_pr.jpg?itok=W4x_I0yo)
![Auto mechanics is one of 10 trade-related courses that will be offered in the fall semester of the Apprenticeship/Workforce Development Progam offered by the Trade & Technical Department at ASCC. [Photo: J. Kneubuhl] Young man in ASCC-TTD auto mechanic garage](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_ttd_apprentice_program.jpg?itok=VmpssVoI)