Eden Renewables annual scholarship program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 13 2022
Jennifer Galavotti  Phone: (315) 679-1410
Email: jennifer.galavotti@edenrenewables.com

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY FOR UP TO $3000 SCHOLARSHIP FROM 

LOCAL SOLAR DEVELOPER

EDEN RENEWABLES IS OFFERING $16,000 TO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS IN THE CAPITAL REGION DEADLINE FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2022

Troy, NY - The deadline is fast approaching for applications to the Eden Renewables annual scholarship program with a total value of $16,000.  Eden is a community solar farm developer based in Troy. High school seniors graduating from schools in communities which host Eden’s solar developments (see list below) and pursuing a career in fields that benefit the environment are invited to apply for ‘Green STEAM’ scholarships until May 20th.

Dr. Suess, not exactly banned

One of the most affluent school districts in Virginia is dissociating itself from Dr. Seuss, claiming the children's books contain "racial undertones" that are unsuitable for teaching children in a "culturally responsive" way.

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$5,000 Green STEM Scholarship Program

PRESS RELEASE:

 

Eden Renewables Now Accepting Applications for $5,000 Green STEM Scholarship Program

High School Seniors in Duanesburg, Glen, and Schodack Pursuing a Career in Green STEM are Invited to Apply by June 5th

New York - Troy-based community solar developer Eden Renewables is calling for applications for its 2020 Green STEM Scholarship Program for graduating high school seniors, valued at a total of $5,000. Students pursuing a career in fields that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources are invited to apply before the deadline of June 5th.

Career & Technical Education

So you want to enroll in a Questar III CTE program…

Jan 17, 2020 | Career & Technical Education, Career Studies, Columbia-Greene Educational Center, Questar III BOCES, Rensselaer Educational Center

https://www.questar.org/2020/01/17/so-you-want-to-enroll-in-a-questar-iii-cte-program/

ICC board considers bidding French adieu

February 1, 2019 by EMILIA TEASDALE

KINDERHOOK–The Ichabod Crane Board of Education held a budget workshop meeting last week to review options for staffing the art, music and foreign languages programs in the next school year.

John Caporta says goodbye

John Caporta at Genet Middle School in 1989.

After 40 years of working in education, including the past 26 years as principal of Red Mill Elementary School, Principal John Caporta is retiring in June. We sat down with Mr. Caporta to talk about his career, the changes in education over the years, and what he will miss most.

Questar III celebrated the new CGEC Heavy Equipment Operation and Maintenance Program

Heavy Equipment Operation & Maintenance Program Ribbon Cutting Celebration

Oct 22, 2018 | Career & Technical Education, Columbia-Greene Educational Center, Questar III BOCES

On Wednesday, October 17th, Questar III celebrated the new CGEC Heavy Equipment Operation and Maintenance Program with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at their program site located at the former Durham Elementary School.

Thank you to everyone who made this new program and this event possible!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SOLAR ENERGY OPTIONS FOR EVERYONE

Community Advocates for Sustainable Energy (CASE)* is sponsoring a public forum on the many diverse options for using solar energy for one's everyday electricity needs.

This event is free and open to the public.

The forum will be held on Wednesday, March 28th at 6:30 pm at the First United Methodist Church at 1 Gilligan Road, East Greenbush, NY. 

Maple Hill High School was named a 2017 National Blue Ribbon School!

Maple Hill High School was named a 2017 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education on Sept. 28, the only school in the Capital Region to receive the honor. This recognition was awarded to 342 schools throughout the country and only 19 schools in New York State.

CTE Spotlight: Aviation Maintenance

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Questar III Staff

Aviation Maintenance Technology is a relatively new Career & Technical Education (CTE) program at Questar III—one of two State Education Department-approved programs to be added since 2010—and it has consistently drawn in students from school districts across the region since its inception.

 
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What stands between you and your ultimate dream?

The Writing Assignment That Changes Lives
Updated July 10, 20159:19 AM ETPublished July 10, 20158:03 AM ET
Why do you do what you do? What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning? Where is your happy place? What stands between you and your ultimate dream?

EDITORIAL: Will state learn from its mistakes?

What’s happened in public education over the last two years is remarkable and scary.

Read it here:

For Immediate Release

April 23, 2015
NY Leaders of Opt Out Movement Issue Their Demands

All aboard

David Borton retired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to work full-time on his business, which he calls Solar Sal. A former engineering professor, Mr. Borton enjoys speaking with Schodack students as much as working on his boat.

Odyssey teams advance to state finals

Eighteen student teams from schools in Rensselaer, Columbia and Greene counties advanced to the state Odyssey of the Mind tournament in Binghamton on April 11. They were selected from 106 teams competing in the Region Four Odyssey of the Mind Tournament coordinated by Questar III at Algonquin Middle School in Averill Park.

Teams from Ichabod Crane, Averill Park, Germantown, Brunswick, Coxsackie-Athens, Troy, East Greenbush, Hoosic Valley, and Rensselaer finished in first place.

Since 1978, Odyssey of the Mind has been an international educational program where students apply their imagination and ingenuity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own interpretation of literary classics.

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ICC seasoned teacher speaks against the Common Core

Teacher emotionally asks to opt out of Common Core testing

Updated: 01/21/2015 9:49 AM  Created: 01/20/2015 11:44 PM WNYT.com By: Anna Meiler

VALATIE - A new Siena Poll shows 49 percent of New Yorker voters want the Common Core stopped.
On Tuesday, the fight against the curriculum became emotional at the Ichabon Crane Middle School.

New Lebanon Junior-Senior High School Advance to Nationals

Updated: Saturday, January 10 2015, 11:32 PM EST 

A look to the Future competition

SCHENECTADY – 26 teams of sixth, seventh and eighth graders are giving us a look into the future. 

Teams competed at Proctors in Schenectady, creating future cities from recycled materials. 

This year’s theme was “Develop a futuristic solution to growing crops within the city.” This year’s winner is the New Lebanon Junior-Senior high School; they advance to the National competition in February in Washington D.C.

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Sheehan fights to keep Half Moon in Albany

Updated: 12/23/2014 5:12 PM
Created: 12/23/2014 5:04 PM WNYT.com
By: WNYT Staff

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan -- along with other local officials are trying to keep the Half Moon from leaving for the Netherlands.

The replica of the historic vessel that Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609 has been in financial difficulty for years and has never had a home port.

The owner made a deal with the town of Hoorn to move the Half Moon there.

Now, Mayor Sheehan wants to hear from the ship's owner about what it would take to keep the Half Moon.

For nearly 25 years, school groups in the Hudson Valley have set sail on the Half Moon for adventures of discovery.

QIII launches tablet pilot program

Questar III student Virgil Wellington is using an iPad to complete
an assignment at Sackett Educational Center.

More and more you’ll see it. Doctors, mechanics, pilots and others are switching from the old pad and paper to a more sophisticated tool: the tablet computer. Not only is the tablet computer useful for software and applications specific to those professions, it is proving to be useful in an academic environment as well.
This year Questar III BOCES, along with Schodack CSD, Coxsackie-Athens CSD and Open Room, a division of Classbook, a Schodack-based company that provides advisory services nationwide to help K-12 schools in building lasting digital ecosystems, has implemented a tablet pilot program with select student populations to test this theory in a classroom setting. Teachers are already reporting increased student engagement and organization, and students are excited to come to school.
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