UFT Vice President for Career and Technical Education High Schools Sterling Roberson smiles as Donna-Marie Herelle of the HS for Enterprise, Business and Technology in Brooklyn is surprised by a hug from her son after she received the National Academy Foundation special industry award.

CTE Educator Award winner Stephen Hudson of Boys and Girls HS in Brooklyn shares a moment with his wife Danielle at the event.

More than 400 attendees pack Shanker Hall at UFT headquarters in Manhattan to celebrate the CTE award winners.

Posing for a shot together are Brooklyn culinary arts teachers Niki Rosenthal (left) of George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education HS and Shelly Flash of the Brooklyn STEAM Center.

UFT Vice President for Career and Technical Education High Schools Sterling Roberson presents Andrea Lingstuyl, a cosmetology teacher at Queens Technical HS, with a UFT Special Recognition Award.

UFT Special Representative Donna Coppola joins Staten Island CTE Educator Award recipients (from second left) Everton Henriques of Staten Island Technical HS, Scott Greenfield of Tottenville HS, James Miller of Susan Wagner HS and Jeffrey Pedersen of Ralph R. McKee Vocational and Technical HS.

The Manhattan CTE Educator Award winners are flanked by UFT Vice President for Career and Technical Education High Schools Sterling Roberson (left) and UFT Manhattan High School District Representative Alice O’Neill.

Queens CTE Educator Award winners pose with their plaques.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew shows off the cover of the March 12 issue of New York Teacher, which features CTE.

Tara Bellevue (right), the senior managing director of the National Academy Foundation, presents awards to (from left) Aristides Lourdas of the HS of Economics and Finance in Manhattan, Steve Saliski of Tottenville HS on Staten Island and Donna Marie Herelle of the HS for Enterprise, Business and Technology in Brooklyn.

UFT Special Representative John Monteforte (left) helps honor the Bronx CTE Educator Award winners.