ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. — Roanoke County Public Schools has built a new career and technology center featuring industry-level training spaces, and two local companies have donated a combined $600,000 to support it.
A new kind of classroom
Benjamin Kingery is a welder at Altec. His welding career started in Roanoke County Public Schools’ CTE program.
To school leaders, he is a walking success story, and they are counting on the county’s new career and technology center to produce more graduates like him.
“I think it’s going to attract more students here than originally,” said Kingery, a Burton CTE graduate now working as a welder at Altec…