Award recipients show off their plaques and their winning smiles as they take to the Shanker Hall stage en masse at the 2017 CTE Awards Recognition Ceremony.

Enjoying their reunion at the event are Outstanding Educator honoree Rosa Chavez (right) of the HS of Fashion Industries and retired teacher Sandra Manning, who inspired Chavez to become an educator through the Success Via Apprenticeship program and later was her colleague at the Manhattan school.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds, the evening’s master of ceremonies, lead the audience in a chant of “CTE, CTE, CTE” to kick off the ceremony.

Outstanding Educator honoree Miguel Sierra, an auto mechanics teacher at Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education HS in Jamaica, Queens, brought his own fan club, his children Miguel Jr., 3, and Isabelle, 1.

Aviation HS’s David Messina (center with plaque) is surrounded by his former colleagues as the recent retiree caps a long teaching career at his Long Island City, Queens, alma mater with an Outstanding Educator award.

Sandra Rossi (left) of Bayside HS in Queens and Luna Ramirez of Information Technology HS in Long Island City, Queens, flank presenter Angel Pineiro, the chairman of the Career and Technical Education Advisory Council. The women were co-recipients of both the Municipal Credit Union Teacher of the Year Award and the Stanley Schair CTE Teacher for Excellence and Innovation Award.

Three-year-old Mariah McIntosh is thrilled that she’s not the only one who thinks her daddy is special. She shares the stage with Outstanding Educator honoree Marlon McIntosh of the Academy for Health Careers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Outstanding Educator honoree Patricia Mack (seated, center) of Chelsea Career and Technical Education HS in Manhattan gathers with friends and supporters, including her school UFT Chapter Leader Jan Scott (standing, center) and Principal Kimberly Bradley (seated, left).

Outstanding Educator award recipient Jamie Martinez (center left) of Transit Tech Career and Technical Education HS in Brooklyn and fellow honoree Marlon McIntosh, a Transit Tech graduate who teaches at the Academy for Health Careers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, celebrate with members of the Transit Tech family, including Chapter Leader Maria Maravegias.