Center for Career Services

CCS Student News

• Career Services to host Spring Open House, Media Show and College/Transition Fair March 20

  The Center for Career Services will host its annual  Spring Open House, Media Show and College/Transition Fair on Thursday, March 20, 2025, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The campus is located at 65 Grasslands Road in Valhalla. On-campus parking will be available. A light dinner will kick things off in Building D followed by Meet the Teachers at 7 p.m.

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• Register now: CTE Summer Camp returns to Valhalla Campus for 2025

  CTE Summer Camp is returning to our Valhalla Campus for 2025. Choose from up to three sessions: July 7-10, July 14-17 and July 21-24. Choices include: Automotive, Culinary, Cosmetology, Computer Coding, Construction, Baking, Intro to Architectural Model Building, Sonic Creations, 3D modeling & 3D Printing, TV/Video and Fashion! Learn more and register at www.ctesummercamp.net today!

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• This marked the first time the Center for Career Services hosted a SkillsUSA event

  CTE welcomes SkillsUSA Regional Competition to campus

  More than 700 visitors gathered at the Center for Career Services for the SkillsUSA Area IV Regional Competition on Feb. 1, 2025. There were more than 400 students who competed in 38 different competitions.

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• Classes will visit HBO, Mercy University, other production studios

  Sound Production students to see everything the industry has to offer

  In the coming weeks, students in the Sound Production program at the Center for Career Services will visit HBO and other production studios, and will also work with professors and state-of-the-art equipment at Mercy University. They will have an opportunity to learn about the various careers available in the industry from experts in the field.

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• Students designed logos, products, tags, packaging and more

  Fashion students create a clothing line from scratch

  Fashion Design & Merchandising students, taught by instructor Carmen Galiano, were tasked with designing a brand from start to finish. The project asked them to pick a name, design a label and packaging, craft a business plan, identify a mission statement and customer profile, and much more.

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• The event will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025

  SkillsUSA competition coming to the Center for Career Services campus on Feb. 1

  For the first time, Southern Westchester BOCES' Center for Career Services will host the SkillsUSA Area IV Regional Competition at its Valhalla campus. Students from schools across the Hudson Valley will be on hand to showcase their talents in various career and technical education fields.

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• Students recruited fellow students and staff members to provide donations

  EMS students assist, participate in valuable blood drive

  Students in the EMS program at the Center for Career Services donated blood and recruited fellow classmates and staff members to donate as well during an American Red Cross blood drive on Dec. 19, 2024.

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• CTE students participate in regional SkillsUSA leadership conference

  Next, the Center for Career Services will host SkillsUSA's Area IV competition

  Thirteen students from Southern Westchester BOCES districts attended the first SkillsUSA Area IV Leadership Conference at SUNY Ulster on Dec. 10, 2024. "Hosting the first Area IV Leadership Conference was such a delight," said CTE Principal Jaclyn De Lao, a SkillsUSA board member. "It gave students from SWBOCES and all around the Hudson Valley area the opportunity to meet and grow their leadership capacity."

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• Yes She Can helps trainees learn transferable job skills

  Fashion students begin internship training at American Girl non-profit organization

  Intro to Fashion and Retail students at the Center for Career Services recently began an internship at Yes She Can, a non-profit organization in White Plains. The trainees help restore American Girl dolls, which are then sold in the attached boutique, Girl AGain.

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• Culinary Arts students learned how to cook eggs seven different ways

  First-year Culinary Arts practice the finer points of egg-making

  Chef Omar Laaraj taught students how to cook eggs sunny-side up, over-easy, scrambled, poached, in a rolled and folded omelette, and in a frittata.

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