UBCTS senior Ray Slifer, a Machining and Engineering Technologies and Quakertown Community High School student is the first UBCTS student to be selected as a Pennsylvania Career and Technical Education Presidential Scholar.

The criteria for selection includes:

Academic RigorTechnical Competence

Employability

SkillsIngenuity/Creative Problem Solving

There were 16 Career and Technical students nominated for this recognition In Pennsylvania. Ray will be notified in mid-January by the U.S. Presidential Scholars office if he will continue to the next level of competition.