Lehigh Career & Technical Institute, its students and staff have been mentioned in the media for a variety of reasons in recent months.

Culinary Arts instructor Brock Cahoon demonstrated how to prepare blueberry-stuffed pork chops in a recent installment of Easy Eats, a WFMZ-TV 69 News feature.

Easy Eats: Blueberry-stuffed pork chops with roasted carrots

Several LCTI students are featured in lehighvalleylive.com photos taken during the SkillsUSA District 11 Championships. Carpentry student Zaki Al-Bajali, Cosmetology student Jamie Knerr and Web Design/Web Programming student Alex Cevicelow were photographed as they competed in the Carpentry, Cosmetology and Web Design contests, respectively.

Tech ed tudents show off skills in competition

Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation President & CEO Don Cunningham wrote in his Morning Call column that LCTI is to manufacturing employers what Alabama is to NFL scouts: it’s the place they go to find top talent. 

Don Cunningham column: Where Lehigh Valley employers go to find the best workers

Students and an alumna from LCTI’s Plumbing & Heating program, along with instructor Kenneth Midgett, appeared on the Fall 2017 cover of PA Contractor, the official magazine for the Pennsylvania Association of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors. The cover photos feature students Saydee Thomas, Daphne Ziegenfus, Paige Knowles and Mikayla Knowles and alumna Jody-Ann Young. The cover and accompanying article highlight the growing number of women in plumbing.

The Fall 2017 edition of the magazine also shone a spotlight on Alex Fritz, an alumnus of LCTI’s Plumbing & Heating program. Fritz represented the PA PHCC at the National PHCC Plumbing Apprentice Contest on Oct. 5 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Plumbing Careers: Not just for men anymore!

PA Contractor magazine cover