by Allyson Roberts | Sep 17, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
How do you interest the next generation in global logistics? Tell them the future is theirs. That’s a prediction Jasmin Lee shared when recruiting the inaugural class of Union County Vocational-Technical Schools’ Academy for Global Logistics. Lee is principal of the...
by Allyson Roberts | Aug 21, 2024 | Schools
As superintendent of Essex County Schools of Technology (ECST) for the past nine years, James Pedersen, Ed.D., has not only worked within Essex County, but throughout the state to build partnerships that strengthen ECST’s three schools. His district provides an option...
by Allyson Roberts | Aug 6, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools, Student Achievements
Funding from Amazon, AT&T, NJM Insurance Group, PKA Technologies, PSEG, SHI International Corporation, South Jersey Industries (SJI) and VMWARE totaled $90,250 to the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) Foundation this year to distribute as scholarships to...
by Allyson Roberts | Jul 9, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Featured News, Schools, Student Achievements
New Jersey has the top high school for STEM — or science, technology, engineering and math — in the nation, according to a recent ranking from U.S. News & World Report. High Technology High School in Lincroft in Monmouth County topped the news site’s list of the...
by Allyson Roberts | Jun 27, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Featured News, Schools, Student Achievements
During her junior year of high school, Katie Ackerman sometimes ran out of class to snap a few photos of seals on the nearby Sandy Hook beaches. She knew they only came to shore at low tide and sought images of them for research. Her classmate, Abby Hesterhagen,...
by Allyson Roberts | Jun 17, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Schools, Student Achievements
Taking full advantage of opportunities to earn college credits while in high school, 251 students from across New Jersey’s county vocational-technical schools graduated with an associate degree this year in addition to a high school diploma. The students accumulated...
