Stafford Technical Center

Stafford Technical Center’s Power Mechanics/Welding Program is thinking green.  They are asking for donations of recycled lawnmowers, garden tractors, compact equipment, all terrain vehicles, and motorcylces for their student projects.  The students work on the equipment throughout the school year and are able to sell some of the pieces to earn money for their program.  [...] Read more »

On June 7th and 8th,  students from Stafford Technical Center’s Hospitality and Entrepreneurship Program, helped clean up a house that is part of a Vermont Achievement Center initiative called “The Warm Quilt Project”.  This project which is coordinated by VAC’s Community School Support Coordinator, Michelle Larose-Mangan, hopes to address some of the homeless needs within [...] Read more »

    The SADD Chapter at Stafford Technical Center just held their third annual student car show at the school. The show recognizes the considerable amount of work that students have done to make their vehicles the works of art that they are. The project director for this project was James Reed, a junior from [...] Read more »

The Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program Chapter at Stafford Technical Center just completed a program designed to help other students in that school to become safer drivers and passengers. The program, Save Our Students (SOS), is designed to reinforce being a responsible driver or vehicle passenger. Using a mini-grant from the state’s VTLSP organization (which [...] Read more »

  Vermont’s law enforcement community has annually held a statewide torch run as a fundraiser to support Vermont Special Olympics, and this year, members of Stafford Technical Center’s SADD Chapter (Students Against Destructive Decisions) were also participants. The Rutland County leg of the torch run was administered by Trooper Rene Klementowski of the Vermont State [...] Read more »

  Students from Stafford Technical Center’s Digital Arts and Video Production Programs recently took top honors at Castleton State College’s Annual Video Festival.  Results for Digtial Arts First Place:  Animation/Experimental  Category:  “Stafford WOW” created by Ali Horwedel (West Rutland), Josh Kaminski (RHS), and Blaise Oddo (Poultney) Special Award for Exceptional Animation: “E-Stafford” created by Shelby Fickel [...] Read more »

Stafford Technical Center inducted seven students into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) on May 6, 2010 during a candlelight ceremony in the Dollhouse Restaurant.  The mission of NTHS is to honor outstanding student achievement in career and technical education, promote educational excellence, and help to create strong partnerships with business and industry.  These students [...] Read more »

STC Hospitality students recently attended the DECA International Career and Development Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, April 23rd-April 28th. Brianna Allen from Mill River Union High School and Christina Campo from Proctor High School attended the School Based Enterprise Academy. As one of forty high schools in the country to receive the initial Gold Level Certification [...] Read more »

Stafford Technical Center is offering three different summer camp activities for students currently in grades 6, 7, 8 and 9 - an Arts and Technology Camp,   a Construction Technology Camp, and Full Week Technology Theme Camps. Summer Arts & Technology Camp at Stafford Technical Center is designed for students who will be entering 7th or 8th grade in [...] Read more »

        The Stafford Technical Center SADD Chapter was advised by Bill Lucci, a parent of a Christ the King student and Assistant Director-Adult Technical Education at Stafford Technical Center that the Christ the King DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program at Christ the King School was in need of funds to pay for the expenses [...] Read more »