Career and Tech News

Erie 1 BOCES Aviation Technology student Alexander Jorgensen has been nominated for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program , one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students.
Alex is a senior at Amherst Central High School and attends the Erie 1 BOCES Harkness Career & Technical Center in Cheektowaga. He joins four other career and technical education (CTE) nominees statewide who were selected based on recommendations to the New York State Education...
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The construction industry needs qualified workers. As a result, businesses, educators, and New York State officials have merged efforts to help close the skills gap in building trades, electrical, HVAC and plumbing.
This school year, high school freshmen from five distinct school districts have enrolled in a grant-funded program that will provide an all-tuition-paid associate degree from SUNY Erie Community College. The New York State Pathways in Technology (NYS P-TECH) program...
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Hands-on experience doesn’t always have to be an in-person occurrence anymore. For high school students in Mr. Rafael Estrada’s Video Production and Sound Recording class, coming together is especially important to grasp new tools, techniques and to practice collaboration. But when COVID-19 forced public high school students across New York State to learn remotely, Estrada and his students took it all in stride.
“I just didn’t have the face time to...
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Hamburg resident Warren Ristine credits his education at Erie 1 BOCES with motivating him to strive to always do his best. That motivation landed him a job as director of facilities for the same organization that taught him.
Ristine graduated from Frontier High School and the Trade Electricity program at the Potter Road Occupational Center in 1976. He then went to work in his father’s electrical contracting business. During the 25 years he worked there, he became a journeyman...
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Pendleton resident Pamela Santillo has come full circle in her career, working in the same building she studied in thanks to her Erie 1 BOCES internship.
Santillo is a Work-Based Learning teacher at the Harkness Career & Technical Center. She graduated from Kenmore East High School and the Dental Laboratory program at Harkness and got her first job at her internship site, Voss Dental Lab. She stayed in that role full-time, teaching and working with around 80 interns...
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