by Ben Beggs | Jun 16, 2022 | Featured News, Schools
On Friday, June 10, County Prep High School Fashion and Design students participated in the annual student Fashion Show at the Earl W. Byrd Center in Jersey City. Students showcased the designs that they spent the school year creating at the show, which was attended...
by Allyson Roberts | Jun 3, 2022 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
In an expansive two-story space that could easily be mistaken for a warehouse, Essex County Schools of Technology students are putting the finishing touches on a scaled-down version of a family home. In that very same space, another group is in the early stages of...
by Allyson Roberts | May 10, 2022 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement
At a time when many employers are struggling to fill jobs, New Jersey’s construction trade organizations are working with business leaders, vocational-technical schools, county colleges and other educational institutions and educators to ensure there’s a good fit...
by Allyson Roberts | May 9, 2022 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
A shop-owner-turned-instructor revitalizes Salem County vocational auto collision program. Collision repair offers a wonderful career path, but fewer and fewer young men and women enter the trade each year. With students’ fading interest in collision careers resulting...
by Allyson Roberts | May 4, 2022 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
The state continued its push to support and fund offshore wind programs with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s board approval for an agreement with Salem County Vocational Technical School. The accord, announced April 14 and approved at the board’s...
by Allyson Roberts | Apr 25, 2022 | Career Programs, Schools
Students in the Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School carpentry program recently completed a project for Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity, which consisted of building a playhouse for a local veteran family. Earlier this school year, SCVTHS...
by Allyson Roberts | Apr 21, 2022 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools, Student Achievements
New Jersey SkillsUSA are contests held across the state to enable ambitious career-focused high school students to showcase their technical skills. They are also a win for employers who recognize the unique opportunity to connect with the top future talent for their...
by Ben Beggs | Mar 28, 2022 | Career and Technical Education, Employer Engagement, Featured News
As NJCCVTS Executive Director, Jackie Burke is the point person for the critical collaboration that connects businesses with county vocational-technical schools. Those schools thrive with the support of over 3,500 active business partnerships that include companies,...
by Ben Beggs | Mar 28, 2022 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Featured News, Schools
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on health care workers as real-life superheroes, and that critical role includes nurses and other medical practitioners who moved from patient care into teaching the next generation of professionals. Career-focused programs in...
by Allyson Roberts | Mar 17, 2022 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Featured News, Schools
The scents permeate the hallways: peanut butter cupcakes and cinnamon rolls from a culinary arts class, fresh sawdust from a carpentry class, and the burning sparks from welding rods in an automotive class — sights and smells as old as the traditional vocational...
