by Career Tech | May 16, 2021 | Career Programs, Schools, Student Achievements
Shubhranshu (Dew) Dutta, a junior in the Hunterdon County Vocational School District’s Biomedical Sciences Academy (BSA), is among the very few high school students set to present at PharmaSUG 2021. Dutta’s research abstract on disease detection through the use of...
by Career Tech | May 16, 2021 | Schools, Student Achievements
County vocational technical school students throughout New Jersey took home 176 medals, including 65 gold medals in both virtual and in-person competition during the 2021 New Jersey SkillsUSA Championships in April. The SkillsUSA New Jersey Championships feature...
by Career Tech | May 5, 2021 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
Read this article as it originally appeared May 4, 2021 in ROI-NJ. Mobile app engineer. User interface designer. Virtual reality developer. Augmented reality programmer. These are among the high-demand jobs of today, with continued growth expected in the future. Since...
by Career Tech | Feb 23, 2021 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement
Read this op-ed as it originally appeared February 23, 2021 on nj.com By Judy Savage and Aaron Fichtner Jobs and businesses will be forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic, and employers will need new strategies to find and develop the talent they need for future...
by Career Tech | Feb 22, 2021 | Career Programs, Schools
February 22nd, 2021 During Career and Technical Education Month in February, the New Jersey Council on County Vocational Technical Schools is highlighting successful graduates of the county’s 21 vocational technical schools. Adam Fulmore wanted to be a police officer...
by Career Tech | Feb 9, 2021 | Career Programs, Schools, Student Achievements
During Career and Technical Education Month in February, the New Jersey Council on County Vocational Technical Schools is highlighting successful graduates of the county’s 21 vocational technical schools. Juleidy Aquino graduated from the criminal justice program at...
by Career Tech | Feb 8, 2021 | Career Programs, Schools
Read this article as it originally appeared on Feb. 8, 2021 in ROI-NJ. Diane McElwee always wanted to be a nurse. After graduating from Cape May County Technical High School, she attended Camden County College while working as a receptionist in a dentist’s office to...
by Career Tech | Jan 28, 2021 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
A federal grant was used to place juniors and seniors in the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools in jobs last spring and summer, and although the grant money has run out, it has launched a number of the students on their career paths. Sean McDonald,...
by Career Tech | Jan 12, 2021 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools
Miguel Rosario and Eric Krise don’t appear to have much in common. Rosario owns an auto repair shop in Phillipsburg in northwestern New Jersey. Krise is an electrician with his own company based in Salem County, at the other end of the state. But the men share a...
by Career Tech | Dec 20, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News
Read this article as it originally appeared on March 11, 2020 in ROI-NJ. Meliza Rodriguez first started working in a bank while she was still in high school — literally. The Columbia Bank branch was right in her school, Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne....
