News & Announcements

The F. Donald Myers Education Center inducted 89 members into the National Technical Honor Society on May 2, 2023. The ceremony was held at the WSWHE BOCES conference center in Wilton.

WSWHE BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) and the Early College Career Academy (ECCA) students participated in the SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Championships from April 26 to 28, 2023 in Syracuse, NY at the NYS Fairgrounds. Thousands of students were in attendance. WSWHE BOCES students returned with Champion titles in their respective fields. There were several first place winners.

The Southern Adirondack Education Center (SAEC) inducted 110 members into the National Technical Honor Society on April 25, 2023. The ceremony was held at Queensbury High School.

The mission of the WSWHE BOCES Wellness, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity (WIDE) Initiative is to provide accessible education programs and services that accelerate social, emotional, & academic achievement while boosting career mobility & enhancing well-being for diverse communities. During the 2022-23 school year, the organization has been making intentional efforts to focus on the four pillars of the initiative. To focus on the first pillar, “wellness", on March 20, CapitalEAP Representative Denelle Abel, LMHC spoke to the Itinerant & Related Services and BEARS teams about “Compassion Fatigue.”

If you walk into the community room at the Southern Adirondack Education Center (SAEC) around midday on a Thursday, you will find 15 excited teens talking about the food pyramid, their favorite foods, or the importance of hand washing and keeping surfaces clean. That’s because for the past six weeks, they have been meeting for Teen Cuisine with Chrys Nestle, a 4 H educator from the Washington County Cornell Cooperative Extension.

The mission of the WSWHE BOCES Wellness, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity (W.I.D.E) Initiative is to provide accessible education programs and services that accelerate social, emotional, & academic achievement while boosting career mobility & enhancing well-being for diverse communities.

On March 31, 2023, Nestled among the Bond in Motion exhibit and other iconic cars, approximately 50 high school juniors in the WSWHE BOCES Career & Technical Education (CTE) auto body repair and automotive technology programs participated in a speed mentoring event sponsored by Saratoga Automobile Museum.

With more than 50 guests in attendance, the Women in Trades event on March 30, 2023 was another step toward building awareness and growth opportunities for women to work in the trades.

More than 100 Career and Technical Education students from the Southern Adirondack Education Center, F. Donald Myers Education Center and Early College Career Academy at WSWHE BOCES participated in dozens of competitions at the 2023 NYS SkillsUSA Area 3 competition (Regional Competition) on March 16, 2023.

Early College Career Academy (ECCA) hosted a Women in Trades event on March 15, 2023. Nearly 100 guests, female-identifying students from grades 7-10 and chaperones from five area school districts were in attendance. The event took place on the SUNY Adirondack Queensbury campus.