OCVTS Holds Apprenticeship Graduation Ceremony
Jean Sullivian, May 25, 2011

OCEAN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY   The Ocean County Vocational Technical School’s Apprenticeship Trades Certificate Awards Ceremony marked the end of a long four-year journey for forty-four men and women. The OCVTS Apprenticeship programs require students to attend 144 hours per year of trade-related classroom instruction while logging 2000 hours of on-the-job training with an employer who sponsors the student. OCVTS offers apprenticeship training for Electricity, Machine Trades, HVAC-R and Plumbing.

On May 25th family and friends gathered to celebrate as the apprenticeship graduates received their completion certificates and became journeymen in their trades.

During the ceremony OCVTS Adult Education Principal Frank Folinus presented Electricity Trades graduate James H. Smith, of Barnegat, with the Ocean County Foundation for Vocational Technical Education Outstanding Apprenticeship Student Award for the overall highest grade point average of all apprenticeship graduates. Plumbing Trades graduate Christopher E. Gaylord of Point Pleasant, received the Foundation’s Outstanding Student Award for second highest grade point average.

PHOTO CAPTION: OCVTS Adult Education Principal Frank Folinus presents James Smith the Ocean County Foundation for Vocational Technical Education Outstanding Apprenticeship Student Award for the overall highest grade point average of all apprenticeship graduates.