Ethan Whiting is earning his Eagle Scout badge by partnering with BOCES Green Construction Academy to complete an outdoor gazebo project for the WLRC. The gazebo structure was built last school year by the Green Construction Academy students at Pathfinder. Ethan’s scout project involved finding a community project, getting volunteers from his Scout Troop 83, recruiting other community members, and…
Contact: Rajean Strube Fossen, 856-2028 (Riverton) – Five high school students in the Green Construction Program sponsored by Fremont County BOCES joined 11 employees from United Parcel Service Wednesday in assembling new bleachers at Wolverine Field. “This is a good project for our Green Construction students,” said Rajean Strube Fossen, Green Construction Coordinator at FC BOCES. “They get to work…
NEWS for immediate release Contact: RaJean Strube Fossen, Green Construction Coordinator, (307) 856-2028 Green Construction Academy graduates summer class (Riverton) – Twenty students from four Fremont County High Schools graduated from a Green Construction Academy on Friday, August. 19, completing a summer of specialized construction projects. The academy was sponsored by Fremont County BOCES and included two teams of students…
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., believes that progress on the Job Corps center in Riverton is moving in the right direction after speaking with senior officials at the Department of Labor late Friday. The Department of Labor’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget indicates strong support for the Job Corps program and is “committed to having a Job Corps…
News for immediate release Contact: Sandy Barton, (307) 856-2028 July 29, 2010 (RIVERTON) — Regional energy industry partners and the Fremont County Board Of Cooperative Education Services (FC BOCES) have joined forces to expand an Energy Exploration Class into an additional West Central Wyoming high school this fall semester. “It’s critical that our students have an opportunity to understand the…
News for immediate release Contact: Sandy Barton, (307) 856-2028 (Riverton) – Forty-three Wyoming educators from 21 communities attended the Wyoming Energy Resource Workshop Oct. 22-23 in Riverton to learn from industry representatives the science and sources of energy, both in Wyoming and North America. “Education is very important to us, and that is why we are doing this workshop,” said…
