A Berne-Knox-Westerlo senior is serving up a passion for cooking and an eye for business.

Ryan Mowery is graduating this year from the Culinary Arts & Hospitality Technology Program at the Capital Region BOCES Center.

Students in the two-year program learn the skills necessary to enter the workforce as a chef or pursue additional training in college.

Mowery plans to continue his education.

“I am going to Siena for business. I might open a restaurant one day and I can use that knowledge,” he said.

There are more than 120 students from two dozen school districts in the program.