Students in the Capital Region BOCES Digital Media Design program aren’t shirting their duties to help their peers—well, maybe they are. Juniors in Barb Gorbaty’s program are printing 453 T-shirts for competitors and participants in the Regional SkillsUSA competition that will be held at the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education Center – Albany …
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Students in the culinary program at the Capital Region BOCES Career & Technical Education Center are hosting a St. Patrick’s Day feast for the public on Wednesday, March 13. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. at the Career and Technical Education Center – Albany Campus, located at 925B Watervliet-Shaker Road, Albany NY 12205. The buffet will …
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Lajay York learned about the construction industry working alongside her father, Leon. She built upon that knowledge by watching the TV show “Forged in Fire,” where she gained an appreciation for the art of welding. Now, the bubbly high school junior is marrying those two passions at Capital Region BOCES, where she hopes to build the …
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Technology experts with Albany Can Code and area institutions are working with students in the Capital Region BOCES Game Design and Implementation program to boost their knowledge and expertise in programming and cybersecurity. Tom Kramer, Vice President of Software Engineering & QA at Albany Medical Center, joined Albany Can Code’s Lee McPeters on Friday to …
More than two dozen Capital Region BOCES students met on Feb. 26 with recruiters and managers from Piedmont Airlines who were in search of mechanics and other skilled trades workers. The Piedmont officials detailed career opportunities as well as how they offer tuition reimbursement for students seeking to attend college for an aviation mechanics and …
New program ready to launch in September Work is nearing competition on the first phase of the construction of an outbuilding that will allow the addition of a Welding and Metal Fabrication program on the Capital Region BOCES Career & Technical Education Center – Schoharie Campus. Students in Matt Millard’s Heavy Equipment Operation, Maintenance & …
Some work in automotive repair facilities, others in hotel kitchens and theaters, and still others in hospitals and manufacturing facilities, but they all have one thing in common—gaining professional experience as part of their education at the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education Center. An integral part of a career and technical education is …
Executives with Milton CAT say they rely on career and technical schools like the one operated by Capital Region BOCES to meet its workforce needs. On Monday, a pair of company officials visited the Career & Technical Education Center – Albany Campus to recruit students from the Diesel Tech program and tout what they have …
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The partnerships Capital Region BOCES forges with local, national, and international businesses continue to pay dividends to area high school students. On Friday, National Grid and Snap-on Manufacturing Company officials donated to the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education Center a Snap-on multimeter and rechargeable battery. A multimeter is a powerful diagnostic tool used …
For some students, having your high school principal shadow your every move for 90 minutes might be a little disconcerting, but not for Cohoes High School junior Richard Shumway. The student, who spends half of every school day learning to be a mechanic at the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center, welcomed …
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