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The Connecticut Technical Education and Career System is pleased to launch Talking Shop with CTECS, a new podcast hosted by Interim Superintendent Dr. Ellen Solek. The goal of this podcast is to educate the general public on the benefits of Career and Technical Education (CTE) while myth-busting [...]

May 4, 2022; Hartford, CT – Rebecca Cipriani Reyer, a science teacher at Windham Technical High School, located in Windham, CT, has been named the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System (CTECS) Teacher of the Year, Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ellen Solek announced today. “CTECS is so fortunate [...]

In a first-of-its-kind statewide civic engagement initiative, Voice4Change empowered high school students to propose and vote on how more than $1.5 million in federal relief funds would be invested to reimagine Connecticut’s schools. Students submitted proposals to the State Department of Education outlining how they would spend $20,000 in [...]

CTECS students from the state's 17 technical high schools got a chance to compete in the annual SkillsUSA State Conference on March 25, 2022. These students completed on-the-job challenges in several categories for a chance to move on to the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference set to take [...]

Twelve of the top automotive technology students from across CT’s technical high schools participated in the annual Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association (CARA) automotive technical competition on April 7, 2022. Held at Gengras Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in East Hartford, CT, nearly $82,000 in scholarship awards were available to the [...]