Bath Regional Career and Technical Center

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1/27/10

Dedicate 10% of Sales on Thursday February 4.

All of the major restaurants in downtown Bath have announced they will join together to raise money for earthquake relief in Haiti after the January 12 disaster that destroyed most of that nation’s capital, Port au Prince.

Restaurants around Maine have held or are planning to hold fundraisers in the wake of this disaster, but this may be the first time restaurants in a single town or city have gotten together to organize a...

Cutting edge composites, wind technology and engineering programs

South Portland – On Monday, February 1, nearly 1,000 high school students in the Midcoast will be asked to envision their future in Maine and to imagine a more vibrant economic future for the Midcoast. As part of an effort being led by Southern Maine Community College and area lawmaker Representative Peter Kent (D-Woolwich), three high schools will take the day to learn about Maine’s engineering, composite and wind...

BATH — Cindy Cygan's Geographic Information System class is nearing the end of a two-year project for the city, gathering data about Bath's approximately 850 street lights.

The Computer Technologies I and II students at BRCTC recently deployed more than 700 Macbook computers to students of Morse High School.  The majority of the deployment took place over a stretch of four days, with one grade receiving their laptops each day.  The deployment sessions were planned by members of the Computer Information Services team for RSU1 and students from Computer Technologies II.  The implementation was then executed by these staff and students, with the assistance of...

On Friday, November 13th about 40 students from the Culinary and Construction programs at BRCTC went to the L.O.C.A.L. Garden on a community service trip. The L.O.C.A.L. Garden is RSU #1's district garden where students, teachers, and community members grow organic fruits and vegetables for use in schools.  The Culinary and Construction students eagerly raked, turned beds, composted plants gone by, and sealed picnic tables.  They organized the garden shed and stowed everything neatly for...

The Bath Regional Career and Technical Center 's Culinary Arts program is having its annual Thanksgiving Pie Sale.   The deadline for ordering pies is Friday, November 13, 2009.   Pie pick up will be Monday, November 23 and Tuesday, November 24 in the BRCTC Culinary Arts Room 305, between 9:00 am - 1:30 pm.  To place an order either call 443-8257 or copy and paste order form into email and send to culinaryarts@rsu1.org.  Please make checks payable to BRCTC/CA.  Thank you for...

MACKENZIE ARRINGTON OF BOOTHBAY holds a mock check signifying the amount of money he won after being named 2009 Maine Lobster Chef of the Year on Friday, October 23. Arrington is the son of 2008 Maine Lobster Chef of the Year, Margaret Salt McLellan.                                   

Photo courtesy of Focus Photography

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Like mother, like son.

Mackenzie Arrington, son of Maine Lobster Chef of the Year 2008 Margaret Salt...

Careers for the future

By Seth Koenig, Times Record Staff

Published:  Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:16 PM EDT

BATH — For reference, at least two of the area schools that sent students to Bath’s vocational center 40 years ago are no longer in operation.

Tonight, during evening meetings of the Bath Regional Career and Technical Center’s program advisory committees, the institution will celebrate four decades of trades education in the City of Ships.

Among those scheduled to speak at the 5...

NEWS

Pre-K ‘Lab' Debuts

By Seth Koenig, Times Record Staff

Published:  Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:03 PM EDT

BATH - Tuesday marked a big day for 20 4-year-olds who arrived for their first day of pre-kindergarten at the Bath Regional Career and Technical Center. It was also a big day for a class full of high school students, who will shoulder much of the work running the pre-kindergarten class as Regional School Unit 1 embarks on a unique new take on early childhood education.  While...

On Thursday, September 10th, one of BRCTC's Culinary I classes took a local foods themed field trip.  First they went to the L.O.C.A.L. Garden, an RSU #1 garden program, and harvested green beans, radishes, herbs, broccoli, hot peppers, and nasturtiums.  While they kept much for the harvest to prepare for students in RSU #1, they also took a selection of produce to sell to Henry and Marty's in Brunswick.They arrived in Brunswick later that morning with their harvest fresh from the garden....