Jackie Burke, executive director of the New Jersey Council of County Vocational-Technical Schools (NJCCVTS) has been named to ROI-NJ’s Power List: 2024 for Associations & Organizations.
The publication honored Burke and the NJCCVTS for “actively recruiting, teaching and training the next-generation workforce.”
View the full list of honorees in ROI-NJ, published Jan. 24, 2024.
Ishani Singh, a senior at High Technology High School, has been a little busy running an international non-profit organization, being interviewed by Good Morning America, and traveling to a conference in the United Arab Emirates. Singh, a resident of Holmdel, N.J., is the founder and lead instructor for Girls Rule AI, which empowers girls from around the world with the tools to build solutions using artificial intelligence (AI).
Students and staff at Camden County Technical School in Pennsauken, aka “Penn Tech,” celebrated the grand opening of the new culinary and baking wing at their campus last month. The school’s $7.6 million expansion was funded through the Securing Our Children’s Future Bond Act and developed an area exclusively for baking and pastry arts in the main building’s first and second floors.
Carpentry students at Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School (SCVTHS) continued their partnership with the Somerset County Handyman Program in an effort to provide assistance to members of the community who are dealing with mobility issues.