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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