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2022 Q2 Pathways Quarterly Magazine

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Alizeah Jones:

Taking Advantage of

Nevada Help Desk Internship

Program Opportunity

At 16, Alizeah Jones already has a clear sense

of how she’d like her life to unfold. She just

needed a school that would allow her to move

at the fast pace that, for her, works best.

At a traditional high school, Alizeah felt

stymied by classes that, by necessity,

needed to move at a pace appropriate for all

students. “I wanted to graduate faster and I

knew if I could do it at my own pace, I could

do it.”

Transferring to Clark County Acceleration

Academies (CCAA) has allowed her to excel. In

addition to acing at her regular coursework,

she was selected to participate in a new

partnership to prepare students for jobs in the

booming field of digital marketing.

Alizeah is one of 20 graduation

candidates from CCAA to participate

in the Nevada Help Desk CyberTeens

60 Internship program led by Dr.

Duana Malone, aka “The Tech Queen.”

The partnership is a pilot program

of Acceleration Academies’ growing

Career and Technical Education (CTE)

initiative.

Recently, Alizeah became the first student

in Nevada to earn the Facebook Community

Manager certification, which trains social

media managers in developing marketing

content and engaging users online.

“We are so proud of all that Alizeah has

accomplished,” says CCAA Director Wendy

Thompson. “She was the first student in the

state of Nevada to earn the new certification

ALIZEAH | Facebook Certified

for social media. At 16 years old, her fierce

determination, strong commitment to her high

school studies and great habits of practice are

helping her soar to new heights.”

Every morning, Alizeah and other students gather

at Las Vegas City Hall to learn digital skills, work on

their projects and hear from inspirational speakers.

Alizeah has dreams of going to culinary school

and opening her own restaurant on the Las Vegas

Strip. While digital marketing was not an area that

she had previously explored, she decided to seize

the opportunity to join the first-ever class in the

program.

She loves it. She is working with a digital marketing

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