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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. Register early before prices increase! 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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• 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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• After 'outstanding start to school year, Barbering students give their first haircut

  Instructor David Biviano was the first customer of his Barbering students

  Students in the newest program at the Center for Career Services took a major step in the course's curriculum this week when they performed their first live haircut.

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• Middle School Week returns to CTE campus March 17-21

  The Career Services campus will welcome middle school students from several component districts March 17-21, 2025, providing them with a firsthand look at the programs and offerings that will be available to them as high juniors and seniors.

  Middle School Week represents a new level of outreach developed by the Center for Career Services aimed at giving students and their families the information they need to make an informed decision about whether a CTE program is right for them. By learning about CTE opportunities at the middle school level, students will have had time to develop a sense of where they may be heading and how CTE programs can benefit their plans. 

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• The skills used to create these PSAs will be applied later this year when the students make movie posters

  Commercial Art students to spread positive messages in school hallways

  Students in Commercial Art are busy creating posters that feature Public Service Announcements. They will hang them throughout the Center for Career Services campus in the hope of spreading positive messages and uplifting their classmates.

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