Broome-Tioga BOCES Recognizes CHOW at Business Spotlight Ceremony
Mar 31, 2025 | Council Happenings
CHOW was recognized Friday morning by Broome-Tioga BOCES at a business spotlight ceremony.
BOCES’ Career Development Center (CDC) highlights three of their partners every year and this time, CHOW was selected. CDC principal Steve Moschak says CHOW reached out to the CDC and said they wanted to have a classroom that would offer real-world skills to the school’s special needs students.
“We are here today to celebrate our Business Spotlight Award for Broome-Tioga BOCES. Today, we are recognizing CHOW as one of our amazing partners. We have over 400 partners that we work with every year. We recognize three a year, our best ones, and CHOW today is, I’m happily here to say they are one of them,” Moschak said. “Our students love working with Les (Aylesworth, director of CHOW) and all the CHOW people. They actually, students had the opportunity to be forklift-certified through this program. We’ve had three students, who were out driving the forklift today, and that’s pretty amazing.”
Aylesworth says this partnership is not only beneficial for the students, but CHOW as well, and they’re glad to provide a learning experience for the students.
“We’re so grateful at the Broome County Council of Churches CHOW program to have the students here because they are being provided an experience to do, to learn about warehousing, to learn how to use a pallet jack, how to use a forklift, how to do inventory, how to pack boxes, how to work with agencies who come, there’s that “customer service” part of it. But they’re learning those things, but they’re actually contributing at the same time, so we’re so grateful to have this. This has been such a wonderful experience allowing me to take some of my cockamamie ideas that seem maybe out of the box, but it’s all done with this idea that we have something of offer here, these kids have something to offer,” Aylesworth said.
