Hornet Academy participants worked with dough during one of their sessions.
With the fall 2025 Hornet Academy session, SUNY Broome continued its third year of offering area middle school students hands-on opportunities to explore potential career paths.
Over four weekends this fall, students from the Chenango Valley and Maine-Endwell school districts attended sessions on the SUNY Broome campus to learn about beat production, biology, computer science, electronics, energy systems, entrepreneurship, hospitality and event management, math, performance art, physical therapy, psychology and human services, robotics/electrical engineering, and radiologic technology.
From Danielle Britton, SUNY Broome’s Director of Training, Education and Workforce Development, “Hornet Academy enables students to try out a wide range of careers. Middle school is the right time for this exploration – they carry what they learn with them into high school as they select courses, decide about special programs like New Visions or BOCES, and make choices about college or other kinds of training.”
Hornet Academy participants tried out floral arranging at the Culinary and Events Center.
Thank you to Series A presenters, including:
- Peter Kravsky, Computer Science Assistant Professor
- Kate Aston, Hospitality Adjunct Professor
- Gladys Brangman, Entrepreneurship Adjunct
- Timmy Bremer, Mathematics Chairperson/Professor
- Dan Brennan, Ph.D., Chemistry Professor
- Danielle Britton, Director of Workforce Development
- Doug Chrzanowski, Engineering Technologies Technical Assistant
- Maleah Farr, Hospitality Adjunct Instructor
- Sam Festa, Computer Science Adjunct Instructor
- Danielle Gardner, Hospitality & Culinary Technical Assistant
- Kathleen Hundley, Physical Therapist Assistant Program Assistant Professor
- Jesse Katen, Jesse Katen School of Dance
- Nadija Kovacevic, Ph.D., R.T. (R) (ARRT), Radiologic Technology Assistant Professor/Clinical Coordinator
- Kathy Lamoreaux, R.T. (R) (ARRT), Radiologic Technology Clinical Instructor
- Robert Lofthouse, Engineering Science and Physics Chairperson/ Associate Professor
- Julie Martin, Physical Therapist Assistant Program Director/Associate Professor
- Maria Montemagno Hospitality Programs Chairperson/Professor
- NYSEG staff
- Phyllis O’Donnell, Ph.D., Biology Professor
- Courtney O’Hagen, Psychology & Human Services Chairperson and Associate Professor
- Alison Sheridan-Brennan, Chemistry Professor
- Victoria Tompkins, Hospitality Programs Instructor
- Brett Masteller Warren, Music and Theater Arts Assistant Professor
Series B begins in February 2026 featuring a wide variety of new topics for students to dive into.
For more information about Hornet Academy, contact Workforce Development at workforce@sunybroome.edu.
Submitted by: Workforce Development
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