Questar III BOCES

Students advocate for BOCES

Feb 25, 2013

Questar III BOCES staff and students spent February 12 at BOCES Lobby Day meeting with legislators to encourage them to maintain funding and to see BOCES as a solution for the state’s fiscal issues.

Learning through music therapy

Feb 19, 2013

Savannah Prach is learning the concept of money through an individual music therapy session with Questar III BOCES Music Therapist Mary Holliday. Holliday, who actually wrote the proposal for the Questar III music therapy program back in 1996, says music is an alternative and effective way of learning for many students.

Students join together to help pets

Feb 15, 2013

Students from two Questar III schools – Catskill Academy and Columbia-Greene Educational Center – teamed up to help support the Pet Food Bank at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society (CGHS). Students coordinated this effort to end on Valentine’s Day, with their project...

Tech Valley HS announces move

Feb 13, 2013

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a new innovative partnership between Tech Valley High School® (TVHS) and the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) to better prepares students for New York’s growing nanotechnology industry and building a world-class nanotechnology workforce to support the growing industry in New York. Under the new partnership, TVHS will locate at CNSE’s Albany NanoTech Complex at the conclusion of its current lease and collaborate with CNSE on coordinated educational, training, and outreach initiatives targeting the 21st century disciplines of nanoscale science and engineering.

Be a voice for public education

Feb 13, 2013

A regional advocacy workshop at Niskayuna High School on February 11 brought hundreds of school district stakeholders together to learn how to effectively advocate for their schools.

REC students lend a hand

Feb 8, 2013

Students at Questar III’s Rensselaer Educational Center (REC) have been helping build homes with Habitat for Humanity in Troy.