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Friends of Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education,
We are excited to share a pictorial display of Chapter 74 vocational technical students collaborating with the New Bedford Zoo. The students are creating sculptures which will be part of an art installation in front of the Buttonwood Park Zoo!!
Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical School has a long history of working on community service projects.
This effort is particularly impressive.
MAVA is very proud of the students and their teachers participating in this special initiative!
David
Voc-Tech students work on metal sculptures to be displayed at zoo
Peter Pereira May 4, 2026
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Logan Gomes sends sparks flying as he welds a tank which will be part of a dung beetle sculpture (beetle can be seen on right side of photo) he is working on in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop. The sculpture will be part of an art installation in front of the Buttonwood Park Zoo by DATMA.
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A snail make from chain and various other metal parts by Genesis Avila Moreno is seen on the counter of the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop.
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Voc-tech student Landyn Cananzey speaks with DATMA’s Lindsay Mis and Matt Moyer Bell about the praying mantis he created in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop. The sculpture will be part of an art installation in front of the Buttonwood Park Zoo by DATMA.
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A student works on one of the metal sculptures which will be displayed in front of Buttonwood Park Zoo, in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop.
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Ray Batalon, a welding instructor, and Drew Bachand are designing a hummingbird moth using recycled extinguishers in the welding workshop at Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School.
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Sparks fall from the metal Leah Bonia is cutting into an ant in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop.
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Scott Cardin shows welding instructor Ray Batalon the roly poly bug he is making in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop while in the foreground a dung bettle made by another student can be seen.
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DATMA’s Matt Moyer Bell and Lindsay Mis speak with Stephen Flowers, welding instructor, in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop about the various creature metal sculptures the students are working on to be displayed in front of the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford.
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Genesis Avila Moreno works on another critter while in the foreground the snail she made in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop.
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Voc-tech student Alexis Ferreira speaks with DATMA’s Lindsay Mis and Matt Moyer Bell about the fire ant she created in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop. The sculpture will be part of an art installation in front of the Buttonwood Park Zoo by DATMA.
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Denisse Alvarez Figaro grinds a sculpture she is working on in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School welding shop.
Chapter 74 Vocational Technical & Agricultural Education
LEARNING THAT WORKS FOR MASSACHUSETTS
David J. Ferreira
MAVA Communications Coordinator
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