{"id":177358,"date":"2026-04-27T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177358\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:16:10","slug":"bchs-senior-to-compete-in-nys-welding-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177358\/","title":{"rendered":"BCHS senior to compete in NYS welding contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OwenVanVranken_Beth_Weld_2_A-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"student wearing welding gear\" width=\"525\" height=\"375\" class=\"wp-image-68508 size-large\"  \/>BCHS senior Owen VanVranken<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four area high school students will put their welding skills to the test against the best of the best from across the state during a competition on May 2 in Albany. One of the four is BCHS senior Owen VanVranken.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VanVranken will join a trio of classmates from the Capital Region BOCES Welding and Metal Fabrication program on May 2 as they compete in the New York State Thruway Cup welding competition at the Career and Technical Education Center \u2013 Albany campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They will compete against the best youth welders from the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and the Twin Tiers regions of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VanVranken won the right to compete in the state competition by earning a third-place finish in a highly competitive regional welding contest, where he outperformed several student welders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good luck to Owen and his teammates from Capital Region BOCES!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BCHS senior Owen VanVranken Four area high school students will put their welding skills to the test against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43998,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-177358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bchs-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}