Dayton Toyota Honored by Middlesex County Vocational Technical Schools as Business Partner of the Year

by Career Tech | Nov 29, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools (MCVTS) honored Michael Dooley, director of Fixed Operations at Dayton Toyota, as its 2020 Business Partner of the Year. The award is given annually to a county vocational technical school business partner for...

Essex County tech grads get real-world experience working on school project (ROI-NJ: Career Classroom)

by Career Tech | Nov 18, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared November 16, 2020  in ROI-NJ. Erika Deleon graduated in 2019 from Essex County Newark Tech High School, where she was exposed to all of the construction trades, but it was welding that really sparked her interest. Deleon...

STEM High School to be built at Jersey City’s planned Scitech Scity

by Career Tech | Nov 11, 2020 | Career Programs, Schools

JERSEY CITY – A proposal for a new STEM high school to be operated by Hudson County Schools of Technology is expected to be built as part of an agreement announced today between Jersey City, Liberty Science Center and Hudson County. Liberty Science High School would...

Work-and-learn strategy growing at N.J. community colleges (NJ.com)

by Career Tech | Nov 10, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools, Student Achievements

Read this op-ed as it originally appeared Oct. 29, 2020 on nj.com. By Frederick Keating, Michael Dicken and Dina Rossi Higher education, county vocational-technical schools and businesses are “stacking the deck” in Gloucester and Cumberland counties thanks to an...

Hands-on once more: At vocational-technical school, students and staff get back to business of learning (ROI-NJ: Career Classroom)

by Career Tech | Oct 12, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared Oct. 5, 2020 in ROI-NJ The half-dozen sheds framed with two-by-fours sit unfinished in Charles Lachner’s construction technology classroom, a junior-year project abandoned after the coronavirus shuttered Hunterdon County...

Technical education is needed to create tomorrow’s essential workers and leaders (NJ.com)

by Career Tech | Sep 26, 2020 | Career Programs, Schools

Read this op-ed as it originally appeared on nj.com By Todd Bonsall Each generation strives to make its mark. As an educator, I am especially encouraged by the passion and determination of today’s youth to be part of something greater than themselves. This drive was...