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Success Stories

Have a submission for a CTECS student or alum success story? Email Kerry Markey at Kerry.Markey@cttech.org.

Student Success Stories

WTNH Highlights the Talent and Skill of CTECS Students and Graduates

Jayden Harris, an Eli Whitney Technical High School student specializes in Plumbing, has already earned his OSHA certification to work on job sites. Through the Work-Based Learning program, he’s also working part-time as an apprentice plumber.   “You get all this hands-on experience for free without having to [...]

Carpentry Student Lines Up Job in National Defense

Hadley Gonzalez is “building freedom”. At least that is what her intern cohort in General Dynamic Electric Boat’s Summer High School Intern Program (SHIP) would repeat at the start and end of each work day. Electric Boat designs, constructs and provides support to submarines for [...]

Day-in-the-Life of a Work-Based Learning Student Stories

Cheney Tech Electrical & Thorogood Electric

We got an inside look, visiting Dane Thorogood, owner of Thorogood Electric in Enfield, CT, and his WBL student Devin Sanchez, a senior in the Electrical program at Howell Cheney Technical High School. Here’s what they had to say.

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