A Capital Region BOCES Career & Technical Education (CTE) student who is forging a career in welding is the recipient of the Evan M. Schwarz Helping Hand Memorial Scholarship. The $500 award was presented to Voorheesville High School senior Cheyenne Watkins by the Schwarz family, teacher Don Mattoon and CTE administrators during a May 21 …
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The annual Capital Region BOCES National Signing Day was a success with 78 high school and adult education students signing letters of intent to work for local businesses and a crowd of more than 200 business, family, labor and education supporters watching. During a May 20 ceremony at the Career & Technical Education (CTE) Center …
Students were dressed to impress at the Capital Region BOCES Special Education division-wide prom, which took place at Duo at the Dunes, a premiere venue in Albany. With their peers, teachers and supporters there to cheer them on, students at Maywood Academy, the Skills for Employment, Life and Functional Independence (SELFI) program, and those attending …
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A team of Capital Region BOCES students recently won medals in a green technology competition in Albany. The aspiring engineers and technicians in the New Visions: Emerging Technologies program designed, built and raced a hydrogen car during a recent competition that featured students from high schools across the state, a team of SUNY students and …
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Capital Region BOCES Welding and Metal Fabrication teacher Donald Mattoon has been named American Welding Society (AWS) District 6 Educator of the Year. The district encompasses virtually all of Upstate New York, from Dutchess County to the Canadian border and west to Buffalo and the Ohio border. The honor was presented in early May at …
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Four high school students from Capital Region BOCES brought home gold this weekend at the New York State Thruway Cup welding competition. Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center seniors Wyatt Strobeck, Trista Smi, Jonathan King and Owen VanVranken combined their skills to defeat the best high school welders from across the state during the May …
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Approximately 100 students from 21 school districts from across the Capital Region gathered for the fourth annual Elevating Student Voices (ESV) Youth Summit at Proctors Theatre on April 29. The event showcased the work students are doing to make their school communities more welcoming and inclusive. This year’s summit featured a performance by the Albany …
Component school district boards of education unanimously approved a $16,094,723 Capital Region BOCES administrative budget for the 2026-27 school year on Wednesday, April 29. Component school districts do not vote on the overall budget, only the administrative portion. Component school districts will “vote” on the rest of the total proposed $214,792,160 budget by deciding whether …
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A Capital Region BOCES graduate has been selected as the New York Association for Continuing and Community Education (NYACCE) 2026 Student of the Year. Antonio DiSanto is a January, 2026 graduate of the Adult Education High School Equivalency (HSE) program and a 2023 graduate of the Skills for Employment, Life and Functional Independence (SELFI) program. …
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Eight Capital Region BOCES students earned medals at the New York state SkillsUSA competition that concluded April 24— including two who won state championships. The students earned the medals competing against more than 3,000 of their peers in numerous work-place skills competitions, ranging from welding and nursing to cooking and machining. Eighty Capital Region BOCES students …
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