BOCES-led consortium writes $6.25 million grant
Questar III is part of a six-member consortium led by the Capital Region BOCES that recently applied for a $6.25 million grant to radically change the structure and outcomes of three area high schools.
Questar III is part of a six-member consortium led by the Capital Region BOCES that recently applied for a $6.25 million grant to radically change the structure and outcomes of three area high schools.
More than three dozen area teens are mixing semiconductors, nanotechnology and energy with fun this week at SEMI High Tech U, an exciting summer day camp offered by the Tech Valley Career Pathways Consortium in partnership with GlobalFoundries and Center for Economic Growth. Students are learning on-site at Hudson Valley Community College’s TEC-SMART campus in Malta, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany, and Schenectady County Community College.
Questar III is featured in the current edition of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce magazine as an organization producing skilled workers.
A federally funded consortium of local colleges and BOCES will continue its efforts to build career pathways in the emerging technologies under a new name.
The Tech Valley High School Operating Board and officials with Questar III and Capital Region BOCES thanked longtime TVHS Operating Board member Nancy Knabbe, who retired from the board in July.