Benefits
Besides great training, Sherman Kendall’s Academy provides you with many benefits that will make your education enriching and enjoyable:
- Your Station
- Each Student has their own station; this means never having to share with other students.
- Uniform
- The dress code requirement is a White top (may be short sleeves but not sleveless or cap sleeves), Black dress pants, black closed toe shoes, and an apron which is provided.
- Student Kits
- Three student kits are included in your tuition:
- Basics kit upon entering our academy; all the books, mannequins, and tools you will need for your first 250 hours.
- Student kit including all the tools you need to start working on clients and building your own personal clientele. This kit is issued after graduation from our basics program.
- Your graduation kit all put together for you to take to the state board practical exam. This kit is issued when you have completed your course and are ready to test for your state licenses.
- Special Classes
- We offer two one hour special classes a week. These classes are demonstrations given by specialists in our industry.
- Master The Arts Day
- Every month we close our schools for half a day. We invite salon owners, guest artists, and motivational speakers to perform for our students. This is a very fun and exciting day.
- Industry Insight Day
- Each quarter we close our academies for five hours to invite a product manufacturer to introduce our students to their products and demonstrate their use, at the same time showing us what is new in products, tools, and fashions. This class is always very informative. Students may purchase products at greatly reduced prices at this event.
- Skin Care
- A Master Esthetician teaches hands on skin care two days a week.
- Hair Cutting
- Sherman Kendall teaches his Tricho-Symmetrics hair cutting system once weekly.
- Tony Shiraki, Guest artist and salon owner, demonstrates hair cutting each week at the Ft. Union academy.
- Keiji, Guest artist and salon owner, demonstrates hair cutting each week at the Sugarhouse academy.
- Barbering
- Gary Raliston, Barber and salon owner, demonstrated clipper cutting and barbering techniques regularly.
- Competitions
- Each academy sponsors one student competition each quarter. Fantasy, evening, cutting makeup, and nails categories are judged and awarded prizes.
- Student Artistic Team
- Five students from each school are chosen to represent our Academies in promotional events.
- Photo Shoots
- All students are invited to participate in a quarterly photo shoot to demonstrate their talent and build their portfolio.
- Video Room
- Each Academy is equipped with a quiet video room and an extensive educational video collection for the use of all students at their leisure.
- Out of Academy Activities
- The Women’s Show in the Expo Center, all senior students get an opportunity to work on stage. Every quarter, our design team and senior students work in a brides event at Thanksgiving point. We also sponsor many charity events where students may participate in community service.