New Paltz High School’s Ethan Greger and Jacob Frost, who attend two innovative Ulster BOCES Career Pathways Programs, have been working together to complete a project that many adult professionals could only dream of: designing, programming, and fabricating 48 matching doors that will be used to deploy satellites on the International Space Station. 

Young professionals who attend the Ulster BOCES Transitional Occupation Program Top-A and Top-C, along with those from the Phoenix Academy, recently came together for a multi-program collaboration to bake 200 pumpkin pies and provide marketing support for a community festival, hosted by local Saugerties entrepreneur in the automotive industry, Brian Morris.

The Meals Ready-to-Eat (MREs) that U.S. military service members are provided when food service is not readily available are not typically known as culinary masterpieces. Nevertheless, that is exactly what the young professionals in the Culinary Arts II program at the Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center were determined to create this fall.

Scott Landry, a veteran educator with more than three decades of experience in education, leadership, and financial services, has been appointed as principal of the Career Pathways Programs at the Ulster BOCES Career & Technical Center in Port Ewen.

Ulster BOCES means different things to different people. For Karina Rendon, a Highland Central School District graduate who attended the Ulster BOCES Culinary Arts program as a junior and senior, Ulster BOCES was the base ingredient in her recipe for a successful career as a pastry chef in the esteemed kitchen of one of the leading hotels in the world, the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Manhattan.