A soft-spoken area teen is building a solid future for herself at Capital Region BOCES. Breanna Parrotti is a senior in the Building Trades program at the Career & Technical Education Center. She aspires to a career in the construction industry and in the process hopes to shatter gender stereotypes for who occupies jobs in that industry. Although the number is rising, according to the National Association for Women in Construction, just 9.9% of the jobs in the industry are held by women. (Photo provided)
