Department News | Alfred State

Winners of the 2024 SkillsUSA competition

Alfred State hosts 2024 Skills USA Postsecondary Championship

Wed, Apr 10th, 2024

“We had a great day of competition and I look forward to seeing our New York State team compete at Nationals,”

NYS SkillsUSA College Postsecondary director Craig R Clark, PhD.

Pioneer PROfiles - Farad Begaliev

Mon, Feb 19th, 2024

“The best part of the program is that you get so much experience. They try to simulate real world situations. The instructors have so much experience. They have answers for pretty much every scenario that me and my classmates have. We are always learning something new.”

Farhad Begaliev

A student stands with the 2014 Dodge Avenger

Wreck/Rebuild program continues to benefit autobody students

Mon, Jan 22nd, 2024

“These cars are great learning tools for our students. The repairs that the students perform are like what they will see when they get into the workplace. Challenges like this force our students to step up their skills and reinforces what they have learned during their time in this program.”

CJ Tremper

Quinn Scanlon holds a tire in front of a car.

Scanlon heading to Italy to work Lamborghini races

Thu, Nov 9th, 2023

Quinn Scanlon will travel to Italy and will take part in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final. He will be with the team the whole week through testing, practice, qualifying, and the actual races on Nov. 18 and 19.

Benjamin Rivera works on a car in the automotive shop

Meet the Students - Benjamin Rivera

Mon, Aug 21st, 2023

“In the shop we take what we learn in the classroom and put it all together. We get customer cars, diagnose them, figure out what is wrong, and return to the customers. Lots of live experience.”

Benjamin Rivera

Meet the Students - Mikal Smith

Mon, Jul 24th, 2023

We have lectures and go through the basics, and we talk through everything that we will experience in the real world. Getting hands-on you learn more, experience it, and you know exactly what is going to happen. When I go into the industry, I will already have done it.”

Mikal Smith

Student stands with heavy equipment machinery

Meet the Students - Breana Mest

Mon, Jul 10th, 2023

“The best part of our classes is the fact that we do not sit in lecture the whole day. We have such an opportunity to go perform what we learned in the field.”

Brena Mest

Jared Coffin receives his award for placing 3rd in the Automotive Service Technology competition at the SkillsUSA National Championships.

Jared Coffin wins bronze medal at SkillsUSA Championships

Thu, Jul 6th, 2023

Jared Coffin (Lakewood, NY) earned a bronze medal to lead a group of six Alfred State College students that competed at the SkillsUSA National Championships in Atlanta, GA.

The 2023 inductees into the SALUTE honor society, (From L to R:) Ryan Darrow, Matthew Proper, Jennifer Aul, and Johnathon Helms.

Four new members inducted into SALUTE

Mon, May 8th, 2023

The Alfred State College (ASC) chapter of SALUTE inducted four new members, Jennifer Aul (Avoca, NY), Ryan Darrow (Webster, NY), Johnathon Helms (Portville, NY), and Matthew Proper (Perry, NY).

Autobody student Mikal Smith works on a wrecked car in the autobody shop at Alfred State College.

Autobody students continue to benefit from wreck/rebuild program

Fri, Jan 27th, 2023

“I like being hands-on. We have lectures and go through the basics, and we talk through everything that we will experience in the real world. Getting hands-on you learn more, experience it, and you know exactly what is going to happen. When I go into the industry, I will already have done it.”