BOCES and SkillsUSA members gathered at Stop & Shop in New City recently to encourage shoe donations. The effort is part fundraiser, part community service. The SKillsUSA team competes in Syracuse in April. Sloatsburger Cassidy Hansen is at the front.
Spring is a time of housecleaning after a long winter of being pent up. A group of Suffern High School and BOCES students know just what you can do to those old shoes (though gently used).
But they sort of messed up our message and reasoning. Yes it’s to raise awareness of what we do at boces, but we’re doing the project to donate the shoes to a third world country raise funds for that women’s shelter on the flier and the SkillsUSA branch in Puerto Rico that was still affected by the hurricane
Sloatsburger and Suffern High School student Cassidy Hansen participates mornings in the Rockland BOCES CTECH Allied Health Program in the mornings, her second year in BOCES. She’s also a member of SkillsUSA through BOCES and will be going to their state competition in Syracuse at the end of April.
SkillsUSA is a BOCES program that allows high school students enrolled in career and technical programs that provide educational programs, events and competitions that support career and technical education (CTE) in the nation’s classrooms.
The Donate Shoes box will be at the Sloatsburg Library through April 15, and is part of Hansen’s and her SkillsUSA BOCES team members’ effort to raise awareness and funds for their April Syracuse competition. The SkillsUSA competitions showcase students’ technical knowledge they have developed in their chosen career field
Cassidy, like many BOCES students, is very invested in career training, with most mornings spent either at Good Samaritan Hospital with or at the BOCES school location in West Nyack, while afternoons are devoted to Suffern High School.
If you have a few pair of gently worn shoes, well, think about walking them over to the Sloatsburg Library for drop off.
