Staff Writer
The Caribou Technology Center has announced the addition of three new instructors who began in their positions with the onset of the new school year in August. The Tech Center, allows high school students to focus on a wide variety of trade- and medical-related class studies. 
Darick Williams
The staff and administration at the Caribou Technology Center have welcomed the addition of Darick Williams as the new graphics arts instructor. Williams, a 2005 graduate of Caribou High School graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle in May, 2009, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business management.
The new staff addition is very familiar with graphic arts, having been introduced to and working with this field at a very young age. Stating he was self-taught in the field by working with his grandfather, the late Clarence Dow, he has approximately 10 years’ experience in the graphic arts field, having working at Dow, Hebert and Plourde during his high school years. He is the current owner of Dow, Hebert, Plourde, Inc.
Although newly hired to fill the graphic arts position, Williams has taught in the classroom, as last February he was hired as a long-term replacement teacher in the graphic arts department.
John Worsley
John Worsely, a native of Massachusetts, is another new face in the classroom at the Caribou Technology Center. A resident of Maine for the past 18 years, Worsely will instruct the residential construction classes at the center.
Worsley brings with him 40 years’ of carpenter experience. Prior to joining the Caribou Tech Center staff, he was employed at the Loring Job Corps Center as the home building instructor for 13 years.
He and his wife have four children and 16 grandchildren.
Reed Nonken
Reed Nonken, the new criminal justice instructor at the center, is a former police officer in both Machias and Presque Isle, and is currently employed part-time with the Limestone Police Department. Nonken attended the Maine Criminal Justice Academy, did undergraduate work at UCONN, and received a master’s degree in ethics from North Carolina State University. He also was previously employed for 15 years as director of IT with the Biotech Company located in Raleigh, N.C.
Nonken is a native of Connecticut.
