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February 3, 2023Airline Officials Detail How a BOCES Education Can Help Students Futures Take Flight
More than five dozen Capital Region BOCES students met on Jan. 31 with recruiters and managers from Piedmont Airlines who were in search of mechanics and other skilled trades workers.
The Piedmont officials detailed career opportunities as well as how they offer tuition reimbursement for students seeking to attend college for an aviation mechanics and who are willing to work for them.
“It seems interesting and a cool opportunity!” said Austin Lavoie-Polsinelli, an electrical trades student from Duanesburg.
“It seems like they offer a lot of experience in different trades,” added Marc Hutchinson, a Construction/Heavy Equipment senior from Schalmont.
Representatives of Piedmont Airlines previously met with students in several Career and Technical School programs on the Albany Campus in search of students interested in careers as airline mechanics and some of those students have already started work and school through Piedmont.
“There’s surprisingly a lot of jobs (for airline mechanics) in the Albany area—both for commercial and for private owners,” said Mitchell Keegan, a 2016 graduate of Jefferson-Lewis BOCES who has launched a successful career as an airline mechanic with Piedmont. “If you get the training, you will have a job.”
Capital Region BOCES works with more than 300 business, union and education partners—like Piedmont—to help fuel the regional and state economies. Through these partnerships, students are able to launch careers directly out of high school or land jobs that will help them pay for future educational opportunities.
Many of these partners will take place in several career fairs BOCES will host later this school year.
To become a BOCES business partner, please contact Capital Region BOCES Senior Business Liaison Nancy Liddle at nancy.liddle@neric.org.
