Dutchess BOCES

Dutchess BOCES Career and Technical Institute is adding a new course offering this year. The esthetics program will prepare students to enter the growing skincare field.

Reliving the April eclipse, exploring constellations in different cultures and stargazing from Saturn – three things teachers experienced this week from the comfort of a portable planetarium set up inside the Dutchess BOCES Conference Center.

Salt Point Center’s Extended School Year (ESY) program closed out the summer with its annual ESY
Student Showcase on August 15 where students proudly showed off what they learned through project displays and performances.
Families, teachers and Dutchess BOCES administrators were greeted in the SPC lobby with a leaflet and

This summer, Dutchess BOCES Food Services began offering catering services for events held in the conference center and on campus. This is thanks to an expansion in staff throughout the 2023-2024 school year.

Representatives from Dutchess BOCES’ Career and Technical Institute helped guide dozens of area middle and high school students last week at the inaugural PK Youth Leaders’ Summit.

Salt Point Center is buzzing with activity even during the summer with the Extended School Year Program (ESY) running from early July to mid-August. 
This half-day program focuses on practicing skills learned during the school year and helps students avoid learning loss or regression over the summer according to SPC Assistant Principal Duane Sharrock. 

Middle school students from across the county recently put new skills into action at Dutchess BOCES Summer CTI Experience in the realms of culinary arts, electrical, fashion design and metal fabrication. 

Students and teachers at Salt Point Center (SPC) came together June 11 for Field Day where they tossed rings, raced in potato sacks and played a version of tic tac toe, involving dropping dolls in buckets of water.

Forty six students graduated from Dutchess BOCES’ Practical Nursing Program at the Career & Technical Institute during a lively June 25 ceremony held in the Salt Point Center gym.

Jeanette Straebler fought back emotion as she slowly made her way to the front of the gym.
Walking through a corridor of her fellow Dutchess BOCES team members cheering in her honor, though, it was an unwinnable fight.

Confetti flew as students exited the Dutchess BOCES Conference Center following the Resilience Academy and In-District Programs Graduation June 21. Passing under the balloon arch, their tassels turned to the left, the students couldn’t wait to embrace their family and friends after an inspirational ceremony.

Dutchess BOCES’ Resilience Academy students and staff were honored for their hard work and achievements throughout the school year during an awards ceremony June 13.

Elizabeth Ayala Sambolin couldn’t help but get emotional as she watched Salt Point Center’s Eighth Grade Moving Up Day Ceremony Thursday.She thought back to what her son, Daniel Sambolin, was like when he first stepped into the school as an 8-year-old with autism. Thursday, she watched him wear a graduate’s cap and gown.

Cheers and applause filled the MJ Nesheiwat Convention Center as families and friends celebrated 302 Career and Technical Institute seniors at Recognition Night June 12.
While students attend classes in 16 different trades, the strong community was evident throughout the night with hugs between teachers and students, cheers for classmates and smiles all around. 

Moving up to a new school can be daunting for students – new teachers and staff, new procedures, new classmates. Eighth grade students from Salt Point Center (SPC) were able to combat these unknowns by visiting the Resilience Academy on June 7.