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A few dozen Bethlehem High School students interested in careers ranging from diesel technicians and physicians to cosmetologists and pastry chefs visited the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education Center – Albany Campus on Jan. 22 to learn how BOCES can shift those aspirations into high gear. Some students were looking to explore career …

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Constructing storage buildings certainly ‘shed’ light on the fundamentals of building design and construction, but there is no substitute for building a real house. That’s why Capital Region BOCES Career & Technical Education Center – Schoharie Campus students are building a tiny home this year in an initiative that is slated to expand to the …

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Students on the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education Center – Albany Campus launched a BOCES-wide initiative this month to collect shoes in the region and ship them to communities living in poverty around the world. Members of the SkillsUSA organization on the Career and Technical Education Center – Albany Campus kicked-off the “sole-full” …

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A key component of the national skilled worker shortage is a lack of societal focus on the skilled trades as a viable career opportunity compounded by an expectation that nearly all youth attend college. A recent survey by Thumbtack—a national organization of skilled trades small businesses—found 82% of young adults were told college is the …

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Sometimes learning is easier when you are working with a classmate. That’s the case for students in the Capital Region BOCES Network Technology program where juniors and seniors in the program say they learn better when helping each other out. “I like the teamwork we do to learn in this program,” said Cohoes High School …

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Three new adult education offerings are launching in January at Capital Region BOCES. The renewable Energy Electrical Trades, Welding and Metal Fabrication and Building Trades programs will provide training to address key workforce gaps in the offshore wind industry. Through the New York State Energy Research & Development Agency (NYSERDA) funded programs, technical training specific …

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10,000 Cookies spread over 130 platters. That’s what Capital Region BOCES students produced on the Career & Technical Education Center – Albany Campus recently as they prepared to make good on orders for cookie platters. The students in Erica Weakley’s Food Services and Culinary Arts and Hospitality Tech classes baked and prepared the cookies, while …

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High school seniors planning to pursue a career in medicine need to look no further than the Capital Region BOCES New Visions: Health Careers program. Located at Ellis and St. Peter’s hospitals, the program prepares high school seniors for more than two-dozen careers and immerses them in a thought-provoking and challenging curriculum designed to build …

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