001I would like to extend a warm welcome to our parents, employers, CEX leadership, local and state officials, honored guests, staff, and most importantly, the students who are here to celebrate today. My name is Matthews. I'm the dean of students and workbased learning coordinator and it's my pleasure to welcome you to WER Technical High School's third annual career signing day. This is also nationally recognized by Skills USA. Today marks an important milestone as we recognize students in the skilled trades for employment, apprenticeships, and continued training after graduation. Much like college athletes signing to play at the next level, today our students are signing up to something equally significant. The opportunity to enter our workforce that is in kind demands, deeply respected, and essential to the future of our communities across Connecticut. Today's ceremony also reflects our
002district's commitment to ensure ensuring students leave us not only technically skilled, but prepared with meaningful pathways to career success. This science symbolizes more than on paper. It represents the connection between education, industry, and the future workforce. At this time, it is my pleasure to introduce our principal, Dr. Ken Miller. [applause] Thank you, Welcome to our third annual career. We are pleased to host this event and have you here with us today. Your presence really means a lot to us and to the students and the home in the community. As mentioned, I have Dr. Hill here. Thanks for an exciting program planned for you today. I first like to thank everyone for attending because this is something that you chose to do. So, we really appreciate it. Secondly, I'd like to our students will be signing
003on with their current employers and their future employers. Thank you for earning the opportunity. I would next like to thank all our instructors in both our academic and trade technologies for leading our students in this quest. Additionally, I'd like to thank all of our parents for providing the guidance necessary for the children to participate in WBL or workbased learning. Thank you so much. Finally, I'd like to thank all of our employers for believing in can and our mission to allow us to present a program like this. Thank you everyone. With I'd like to thank everyone for spend the morning with us. I hope everyone has an outstanding experience and congratulations to all our teams. [applause] It is now my honor to welcome Mayor Brussi, mayor of Waterberry. [applause] Good morning everyone. It's great to see
004you all here today on this uh career exciting day and I want to start by congratulating all of the students here today employment in their chosen field graduation. Today is a major milestone because it reflects your hard work, your dedication and your commitment to the future. Career Signing Day is a powerful reminder that there are many pathways to success and skilled trades are essential to keeping our community strong and growing. To all of the employers who are here today, thank you for investing in these talented young individuals and believing in their potential. To the families, the teachers, the mentors, your support has helped make this moment possible. We're proud to see students stepping confidently into the workforce and contributing to our local economy. So, congratulations again and best of luck to all of you as
005you begin this exciting chapter in your lives. [applause] Thank you. And now, please welcome Superintendent offer some words of encouragement to our students. >> [applause] >> Good morning everybody. >> Very good. So this is my first signing day for CEX and it's pretty funny because when I came here it was my first actual event that went through CEX which was memorial day program. So I want to first thank Dr. and his whole team for putting on these great events and thank you to all the teachers that are involved in this team. Matthews, everybody, you all did a great job. So, we give them a big round of applause. [applause] So, funny story. I just came up here over here. Um, and we were talking about how we have sons for taking over the business and
006the local story about him. his his son worked with him since he was 7 years old. He's raised up. He's he's going to be working in and running the company from here on out. Um I told him and my father did HVAC uh in New Haven business and he took me to work uh since I was 7 years old. Um and I helped HVAC. So our friend here did a great job. Um and uh uh but you know the idea of waking up in the morning and going out and doing work and and really really making a difference in the world in your world is important. When I first came out to CE one of the things that I did on behalf of all the schools and I met with a team of students I
007met with a little focus group of students and one of the questions I asked them is what's the best thing about CEX? What's the best thing about your school? And unequivocally all of them at one point in the conversation said that work factory. So the ability to get up to go to school to learn a trade to learn a skill and go out and work while you're going to school is something that's really awesome and something that all the students really uh really appreciate. And it was great here. So it was great to see this this event coming forward and coming coming together. Before I came to CX, I was at a comprehensive high school. Um, and when we talked about signing days, we talked about athletics, students that are only taking programs, students that
008are going to museum to to do a sport at college. And that was great. Really great. But the idea to come to an event where we're talking about students recognizing their hard work over the course of four years um not just in athletics but in grit determination learning about trade learning their academics and they're going on to a career is fantastic and I just want to say students you did this so you worked hard and you got to where you are today and you should be really really proud of yourself and I want to say teachers teachers you did this so you guide them you got them to where they need to be and you should be proud of them and you should be proud of yourself. I'm grateful for all the teachers that we
009have here. I'm grateful for our students and for our staff. Um just want to say a huge congratulations. Look forward to seeing the ceremony coming coming together. Um and thank you. Have a great day. [applause] Thank you, Mr. Paco. Next, I'd like to introduce Representative Natalie. >> [applause] >> Good morning everyone. It's truly a pleasure to be here celebrating your signing day. This morning is more about just employment. It's about opportunity, preparation, and the power of hard work and love. Through the students we are honoring, you made a commitment to your craft. You follow through. Securing women in your trade right out of high school is no small achievement. You are setting up the workforce not just with diploma but with real skills that are in demand and essential for the state of our economy.
010To the parents, families and teachers, your support for these students, their success has been critical along the way. And to the employers who are here today, thank you for investing in these talented young professionals, recognizing the value of technical education. Connecticut technical high schools play a vital role in preparing students for a meaningful careers. Today's proof that we when we invest in career technical education, we are investing in the workforce of our economy and the workforce of our future. Congratulations and investing yet. [applause] Thank you for your continued support. Students will be called forward by shop and employer to sign their certific alongside their employers. Following the signing, students and employers will move back to the gym for a quick photo and some small tokens of our gratitude. The first trade that I would like
011to introduce is hairdressing and cosmetology. [applause] >> [applause] >> I'd like to introduce Jasmine Bernz from Taza Liz, Alexis Campos. [applause] >> [applause] >> I'd like to introduce the art instructor, Chef Williams. [applause] signary is going to be porcelain and they're going to be welcome. [applause] >> [applause] >> Heat. Heat. [applause] >> [applause] >> I would now like to introduce the instructor, Mr. Sa. [applause] possible [applause] support. [applause] There's nothing. >> [applause] >> I'd like to introduce information technology department head Mr. Bless. [applause] I'd like to have Michael signing for it. Heat. [applause] Heat. [applause] >> [clears throat] >> I'm not >> [applause] >> Next, like introduce carpentry instructor, Mr. Walsh. [applause] >> [applause] >> It's all great. [applause] I'm not >> [applause] >> Thank you. [applause] Everybody >> [applause] [applause] >> This is our
012first student. [applause] Shake it. >> [applause] [applause] >> Next, I'd like to welcome our department heading, Mr. [applause] >> [clears throat] >> So two students from and [applause] Yeah. [applause] Jesus. What's going on? >> [applause] [applause] >> So four years ago and these three department and this is our first senior class and they are certainly proud. So please Mr. >> [applause] [applause] >> Um all signers workers Connecticut Jacob Canel Maximo sir Heat. [applause] Heat. >> [applause] [applause] >> Next is welcome. Johnson [applause] All night. [applause and cheering] >> [applause] >> The next I want to call is your [applause] My friend here [applause] is not Holy [applause] The next student is working with health. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> So, I have a few students here on all in the same facility all [applause] you
013This is good. Oh my god. [applause] All right. And we have one more student from health mentality. [applause] environment. [applause] And next, I'd like to introduce, Mr. >> [applause] >> Thank you. Thank you for service. [applause] Wow. Awesome. >> [applause] >> Amen. [applause] Yeah. [applause] Miss Gary War. So the first chapter 93 is precision technology instructor. [applause] First I would like to introduce two students that are both signing RBC. My only [applause] Thank you. $200. >> [applause] >> Yes. [applause] >> [applause] >> Mr. model. No. [applause] See, right. [applause] >> [clears throat] >> Hello. Thank you so much. >> [applause] [applause] >> Next paper from [applause] I'm going to go back. >> [applause] >> And our last 1450. [applause] I think that's >> [applause] >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> We got Joshua All right.
014[applause] Thank you. Let's see. >> [applause] >> I got everything. [applause] >> [applause] >> signing with Incorporated France. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> and signing on with RB3 electric. [applause] Just [applause] CLC electric. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> And last but not least, Please. [applause] Thank you. [applause] I'd like to [applause] introduce Cologne uh from the Thank you. [applause] Absolutely. [applause] >> [applause] >> like Alexa. [applause] [applause] You want to take Hallelujah. [applause] See if you ever >> [applause] >> Ladies and gentlemen, [applause] >> [applause] >> Now >> [applause] >> I'd like to introduce all [applause] >> [applause] >> This game feeling down. >> [applause] >> We Oh my [applause] god. Oh, >> see. [applause] I'd like to introduce [applause] you Yeah. Thank you. >> [applause] >> You are here. [applause] Yeah. >> Like coming
015up. >> Yeah. Coming >> up. What happened? Tyler Sanders contest. [applause] Woo! [applause] One more. [cheering] [applause] >> [applause] [cheering] >> to serve as the foundation for your long successful careers. Before we conclude, we want to ask Mr. New for some closing remarks. He has been a strong supporter of technical high school, the career technical trades and library as a whole. Please welcome Mr. [applause] and Thank you so MUCH [applause] and everyone here who will celebrate. What a great day to celebrate. It is very unfair and unjust for someone like me to send a platform to speak on behalf of the energy program without introducing the backbone of the training program for the center of America. A personal company. She has visited medical company to register and apprentices primarily vocational technical schools. I'd like to
016thank Miss [applause] She and we thank you very very much. Our [applause] last name the mother. Thank you. Our grandfather of our employees who came today. They like our family. They have grown to the imaginary not all and that is okay because we want them to leave because they extend themselves. One of our emergency is now police department. Another one is again our community to support our community to put and spread the war for our community and this is very important. So we have them all and our wonderful our friend our supporter [applause] today and I am so happy for them. They are walking out of school in a little over a month's time with not only a job but a career. These students are going to be successful because everything that they've learned at
017the school, the opportunities that employers in the library area have given them and it's going to be my fortune to see them graduate apprentichips in the few years. Nothing makes me happier than seeing these students grow, learn, and learn and stay in the state of Connecticut. And I'm so proud to be here. So thankful for all parents, you've done so much to help them. [applause] Thank you, Mr. Thank you to all the staff members and personnel who made this possible. There are so many today. Um without you, we wouldn't be here and make this possible for the students because this is all about. I have a special request um for everyone who is trying to support and for teachers to take a picture of the sto once I conclude my remarks. Um please also know
018that we do have some coffee and outside the hallway at the gym. So please partake in that and also any families who would like to use the skills backdrop any employers to take some pictures please feel free and thank you for your continued support. >> [applause]