Dutchess BOCES

More than 275 seniors from Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute are now on to college, the military or the workforce after the annual recognition ceremony held on June 9 despite the finicky weather.
Family and friends gathered outside of the CTI main entrance to watch and cheer for their children as they enjoyed their success from completing the variety of programs BOCES has to offer.

Eleven students from the Career & Technical Institute (CTI) at Dutchess BOCES are heading to work as soon as they graduate where they will put the skills they learned in their respective courses to good use.

Family, faculty and staff celebrated the students of the Career and Technical Institute June 1 at the annual awards ceremony.  Community partners donated more than $8,000 in scholarships and prizes to sweeten the day.

Alyssa Hoag hopes to operate a farm one day and may be on her way to doing so based on her results at the New York State Future Farmers of America Convention in Buffalo on May 18-20.
The student in the Careers in Animal and Plant Sciences program at Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute placed second on the Farm and Agriculture Business Management written test.

The 2022-23 school year has less than a month to go.  Please mark your calendars for these important events.  We look forward to celebrating your children’s accomplishments.
 

In the first of many measures to bring more equity to the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) community, Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute invited Dutchess County Pride Center Executive Director Karen Marder for two talks on May 10 to highlight the center’s services and to speak about LGBTQ matters.

CTI Instructor Erin Scott applied for a grant from the It Gets Better organization’s 50 States, 50 Grants initiative that will allocate up to $10,000 to fund projects that uplift, empower and connect LGBTQ youth in schools. Only one New York school district will be announced as the winner in June.

Thirty-two students from Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute were made members of the National Technical Honor Society during an induction ceremony on May 4.

Chloe Yagastis arrived a few minutes late to the Pegasus 2023 Award Ceremony.
She was having her hair done in the Career & Technical Institute’s cosmetology class for the Pegasus Prom later in the day.

Two students in Dutchess BOCES’ Work-Based Learning Program, Jordan Terry and Alex Rivera have impressed just about everyone with their work ethic and detailed approach to their jobs.

Students in Dutchess BOCES’ Security & Law Enforcement will now put what they have been learning in the classroom to the test with the use of the VirTra learning simulation.

Dutchess BOCES is honoring Deaf Awareness Week, held this year from May 1 to 7, with posters alerting students and staff about hearing loss and deafness, designed by second year graphic design students.

Jaime Keener said the installation of 107 security cameras around the Dutchess BOCES campus is in the final stages.
“I like this system. We will benefit,” said Keener, an instructional systems research specialist at Dutchess BOCES. Live or recorded video may be seen with the security cameras.

Thirteen students from Dutchess BOCES’ Career & Technical Institute are on their way to compete at the New York State SkillsUSA Leadership and Skills Championship in Syracuse from April 26 to 28.
Superintendent Jason Schetelick and CTI Principal Nick Millas will attend to show their support for students, who are traveling by bus to the competition.