With Capital Region Boces, Switch From Cheerleader To Welder Was No Sweat

Middleburgh In her senior year of high school, Samantha Petrosino traded her cheerleading pompoms for a welder's helmet and never looked back. The 2017 Middleburgh High School graduate will travel to San Diego at the end of October to pursue a degree and certification in commercial diving and underwater welding. Although she was a four-sport athlete and a member of the cheer squad at Middleburgh High, Petrosino spent her senior year learning to weld as part of Capital Region BOCES' career and technical education program at Mohonasen High School's new Center for Advanced Technology.