News & Announcements

WSWHE BOCES CTE and ECCA students showed off their best work at the SkillsUSA Regional Competition.

Early College Career Academy (ECCA) hosted a Women in Trades day on March 13, 2024 at SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury where nearly 100 students from grades 7-10 were in attendance.

A love of reading and books was on full display on March 11, 2024 when 546 students on 76 teams from 21 local school districts competed in the 2024 “Battle of the Books.” This event, which is coordinated by the WSWHE BOCES School Library Systems, was held at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, NY.

112 students on 19 teams from 13 school buildings across 7 school districts spent their Saturday creatively solving problems and performing for judges at the 2024 Region 6 Odyssey of the Mind Competition on March 9, 2024 at the Glens Falls High School, Glens Falls, NY.

March 12, 2024 – As SoBro Conservancy of Saratoga began transforming a barren former gas station site at 209 South Broadway in Saratoga Springs into a vibrant green space, it needed a shed. Since education is a key part of the nonprofit's mission, it didn’t want to just buy a shed. It wanted young people to have a stake in its regreening project. SoBro wanted students to gain experience by building the shed and contacted the WSWHE BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) division to assist. In spring 2023, John Coffinger and his construction trades students at the Southern Adirondack Education Center in Hudson Falls signed on as partners for the project and began work on the 8'x12' shed. Students from this year’s class continued when they arrived in the fall. Construction was completed just a couple of weeks ago.

Early College Career Academy students from the New Media program and Business and Entrepreneurship program, took part in an industry challenge with PUSH Apparel on a t-shirt design and marketing campaign.

March is International Women's Month and we are celebrating Women in the Trades. Throughout the month, WSWHE BOCES will be holding events and highlighting current students and opportunities available to prospective students in the trades.

February 5-9, 2024 is SkillsUSA Week. In recognition of this special week, WSWHE BOCES is thrilled to celebrate two state level SkillsUSA officers who are making a big impact: Zachary Kramar, NYS SkillsUSA President, from North Warren CSD and Mikayla Linehan, NYS SkillsUSA Area 3 Vice President, from Queensbury UFSD.

February 1, 2024 - The culinary prowess of the students from the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex (WSWHE) BOCES Culinary Arts program will be on full display at the 25th Annual Chowderfest in Saratoga Springs. The event, scheduled for Saturday, February 10, 2024, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, at the F. Donald Myers Education Center, 15 Henning Road in Saratoga Springs, promises to be a celebration of delectable culinary creations.

Olivia Harrison, discovered that the BEARS classrooms were in much need of books for their classroom collections, both for students to explore on their own, and for teachers to share stories with students. Olivia is the Assistive Technology Provider, AT/SP Team Leader, at the F. Donald Myers Education Center in Saratoga Springs.