News & Announcements

CTE and ECCA students participated in the SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Championships and several returned with Champion titles in their respective fields.

April is Autism Awareness Month and WSWHE BOCES celebrated its BEARS classes on Friday, April 12, 2024 with their first annual “BEARS Bonanza” at the F. Donald Myers Education Center in Saratoga Springs, NY.

On April 10, 2024 WSWHE BOCES held its annual meeting of the trustees and members of the boards of education of its component school districts. Culinary arts students prepared and served dinner to more than 60 guests.

Employment Training for Adults (ETA), a division of WSWHE BOCES, hosted their annual Women in Trades event on March 27, 2024 in Wilton, NY. Nearly 50 guests were in attendance to “Continue the Conversation of Empowering Women in the Trades.”

WSWHE BOCES CTE and ECCA students showed off their best work at the SkillsUSA Regional Competition.

Early College Career Academy (ECCA) hosted a Women in Trades day on March 13, 2024 at SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury where nearly 100 students from grades 7-10 were in attendance.

A love of reading and books was on full display on March 11, 2024 when 546 students on 76 teams from 21 local school districts competed in the 2024 “Battle of the Books.” This event, which is coordinated by the WSWHE BOCES School Library Systems, was held at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, NY.

112 students on 19 teams from 13 school buildings across 7 school districts spent their Saturday creatively solving problems and performing for judges at the 2024 Region 6 Odyssey of the Mind Competition on March 9, 2024 at the Glens Falls High School, Glens Falls, NY.

March 12, 2024 – As SoBro Conservancy of Saratoga began transforming a barren former gas station site at 209 South Broadway in Saratoga Springs into a vibrant green space, it needed a shed. Since education is a key part of the nonprofit's mission, it didn’t want to just buy a shed. It wanted young people to have a stake in its regreening project. SoBro wanted students to gain experience by building the shed and contacted the WSWHE BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) division to assist. In spring 2023, John Coffinger and his construction trades students at the Southern Adirondack Education Center in Hudson Falls signed on as partners for the project and began work on the 8'x12' shed. Students from this year’s class continued when they arrived in the fall. Construction was completed just a couple of weeks ago.

The School to Work transition program serves students aged 17 to 21 years old who are getting ready to exit from the school setting. This community-based program draws together area businesses and educators to prepare special needs students for employment and independent living through internships. For the past few weeks, three School to Work students have been working at the Wilton Applebee’s gaining new skills. They were recently recognized for their excellent work ethic.