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 …
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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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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A paramedic with nearly 20 years of experience saving lives and teaching others how to do so has been hired to launch a new Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program at Capital Region BOCES. Michael Turek started work the week of April 13 at the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center and is collaborating with BOCES …
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Eighty students from more than a dozen area school districts will represent Capital Region BOCES during a statewide competition next week that tests their abilities in the skilled trades and workplace. The students, who hail from as diverse districts as Shenendehowa and Cobleskill, Watervliet and Burnt Hills, are competing in events that showcase their work-related …
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Representatives of a Clifton Park-based construction conglomerate that operates throughout the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states recruited students on two Capital Region BOCES campuses on April 15. Gabrielle Sullivan, Robert Rumrill and his son Bryce Rumrill spoke to students about careers and opportunities that exist for them as they graduate from the Heavy Equipment Repair …
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You can say that Amber DeWitt is going the distance in pursuit of fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse. The Ulster County resident is commuting from approximately 140 miles round-trip daily from her home in Tillson to the Capital Region BOCES Adult Health Careers Center in Colonie. “It can be a lot, especially …
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