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Bush Campus Skills USA students sang a selection of holiday classics for the residents to spread some holiday cheer at Bethany Village. #CommunityOrientedatGSTBOCES #GSTBOCESculture #PROUDTOBEGST

GST BOCES staff donated items to create baskets by department to raffle off among staff. Our annual basket raffle raised a substantial donation for the United Way. #CommunityOrientedatGSTBOCES #PROUDTOBEGST #GSTGivesBack

Our yearly collaboration w/ Corning-Painted Post students for facials, manicures and pedicures from our senior Cosmetology students at Coopers Campus. This is a collaboration that has taken place for the past three years and we are all looking forward to many more. #PROUDTOBEGST

The Career Development Council (CDC) is proud to celebrate Kate McKenzie, who has been honored with the 2024 Partners in Education Award by the Chemung County Chamber of Commerce. Read full story: https://www.gstboces.org/article/1933210 #CareerDevelopmentCouncil #PROUDTOBEGST

GST BOCES School Library Services shared a milestone moment, celebrating a retirement of one of our amazing GST librarians, Maggie Field @WatkinsGlenCentralSchoolDistrict. We wish Maggie well & welcome Beth Herforth & Nikki Firestone as the new Watkins librarians. #PROUDTOBEGST

GST BOCES staff volunteered for Arctic League. #GSTGivesBack #CommunityOrientedatGSTBOCES #GSTBOCESculture

GST BOCES Phoenix Academy's Annual Gingerbread House Competition. #GSTBOCESculture #PROUDTOBEGST

Elf Day at Phoenix Academy! #GSTBOCESculture #PROUDTOBEGST

Students from Coopers and Bush recently competed in a Collison Repair competition in Buffalo. In total, 5 students competed in the Western New York Auto Collision Competition, hosted by @AutoCollisionandglassWNY . They have been hosting the contest for a number of years to promote Collision Repair and have the students showcase their skills. The competition was divided into 2 groups - Juniors and Seniors. Seniors competed in 3 categories - Estimating, plastic repair, and refinishing. Juniors competed in 3 different categories - Dent repair, part identification, and paint mixing. They awarded the top 2 in each of the 3 categories, and then an overall winner. There were numerous competitors from schools throughout Western New York. GST had a great showing! * Jayden Hall (Bush Campus) from @ElmiraCitySchoolDistrict won 2nd place in the plastic repair competition and received a $75 gift card. * Robert McNeill (Coopers Campus) from @AddisonCentralSchoolDistrict won 2nd place in part identification, 1st place in dent repair, and 1st place overall! He received $150 in gift cards and a 3M spray gun. * Bryce Harris (Coopers Campus) from @campbellsavona won 2nd place in refinishing, 1st place in estimating, and 1st place overall! He also received $150 in gift cards and a 3M spray gun. His class also gets bragging rights to show off the trophy until next years competition! #PROUDTOBEGST #KnowledgeableatGSTBOCES #GSTBOCESprograms

Cosmetology and Heavy Equipment students at our Wildwood Campus are spreading holiday cheer and supporting their community. Students from both classes generously purchased gifts and gift cards for 15 Pathway students and their families. #PROUDTOBEGST #GSTBOCESculture

GST BOCES Bush Campus and STEM Academy will operate on a two-hour delay today, Monday, December 16, 2024, for students and instructional staff only. All others will remain open.

Coopers Automotive Technology students recently took a trip to Rochester to see behind the scenes at the Garber Automotive Group. They toured the Porsche and Honda/Acura service centers in addition to the collision repair facility. They finished the trip off with lunch and team building at Lasertron. Always appreciative of the warm welcome from the folks at Garber! @GarberCollision @GarberPorscheAudi @GarberHonda #PROUDTOBEGST

Bush Campus culinary class has been doing a lot of baking, including cookies for each sending district bus garage as a thank you for all they do. The seniors conducted a cookie exchange and worked with Phoenix Academy to teach a few students how to make gingerbread men. #PROUDTOBEGST #CommunityOrientedatGSTBOCES #GSTBOCEScomponentdistricts

Coopers Campus SkillsUSA Officers and Advisors attended Sparkle on Market Street recently. They set up a display to highlight SkillsUSA on the Coopers Campus and to promote their upcoming Stocking Stuffer project with Steuben County Meals on Wheels. In addition, they handed out free popcorn and spoke with the public about the upcoming Splash Pad project and to promote their first 5K/Fun Run! @Gafferdistrict @NYSkillsUSA

We're excited to announce that the Coopers Campus was selected to receive $10,000 from @Harbor Freight Tools for Schools for their student-led community impact project! This grant will aid in the design, planning, and implementation of a splash pad at the Village Park in Savona, NY. The 600 square foot splash pad, aptly named "Lillee's Pad", will be built in memoriam of 6-year-old Lillee Bronson who passed away in 2022 from metastatic osteosarcoma. Led by @SkillsUSA officers/members, the entire GST Coopers Campus will come together to build the lily pad shaped concrete pad featuring 12 spray nozzles and 3 water features. We can't wait to get started! @NYSSkillsUSA #PROUDTOBEGST

Wildwood Campus just completed two days of senior interviews, hosting over 40 industry professionals. Students were able to experience mock interviews and received feedback from our local industry leaders. #GSTBOCESpartnerships #PreparedatGSTBOCES #PROUDTOBEGST

Another big THANK YOU to Garrett Wilson From G.P. Wilson Excavating for bringing his Steelwrist tilt rotator out to the Coopers Campus Heavy Equipment training area and spending two days showing students different equipment and attachments while also letting them get some seat time of their own with his equipment. Can't say enough about how awesome it is to have a local business owner take the time and resources to come out and give our students these opportunities. #PROUDTOBEGST #GSTBOCESpartnerships

Bush Campus senior Cosmetology students has surpassed over 300 free haircuts this school year at our local elementary schools! So many schools have been added this year to our collaboration. We service 9 local elementary schools making great connections, relationships and learning experiences! #GSTBOCEScollaboration @GSTBOCEScomponentdistricts @PROUDTOBEGST

This year the Wildwood Criminal Justice Students teamed up with the Wildwood Skills Leadership to collect items for the Toys for Tots organization. A total of 82 toys and 68 stocking stuffers were collected! Thank you all who participated! #SkillsUSA #PROUDTOBEGST #CommunityOrientedatGSTBOCES

New Visions Health students from Bush Campus learned simple suturing techniques and had the chance to start practicing their skills! #PROUDTOBEGST #KnowledgeableatGSTBOCES #GSTBOCESintegrity