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Team ‘Mind, Body, Spirit’ for the win

May 9, 2014

The results are in for the most recent Questar III Weight Loss Challenge, and the winning team is “Mind, Body, Spirit” from the main office losing a total of 3.83 percent of their body weight.

Hispanic youth attend leadership conference

Apr 30, 2014

On March 22-24, 2014, 206 Hispanic students from high schools across New York State traveled to participate in the 24th Annual Angelo Del Toro Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute (PR/HYLI). The overall purpose of this Institute is to develop an in-depth knowledge of the NYS legislative process and develop leadership skills of Latino/Hispanic Youth.

QIII hosts regional early college training

Apr 2, 2014

On March 27, Questar III BOCES hosted a regional training program for team members of the Troy Riverfront P-Tech (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) consortium and other regional stakeholders developing similar early-college educational models.

The Best way to save

Feb 1, 2013

Questar III BOCES Purchasing Agent Julie Best is like a personal shopper for school districts. They tell her what they want and need; she makes the purchase on their behalf. The difference is she actually saves the district more money than if they were to do this on...

CALL grant a success

Jan 29, 2013

Teachers at Sackett Educational Center teachers on the Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders (CALL) grant are implementing Brown University’s strategies and are reporting measurable and observable results.

Therapy dogs model positive attitudes

Dec 12, 2012

Keeping a positive attitude in the face of adversity is the lesson Questar III students at Ichabod Crane High School took from their recent visit with two therapy dogs from Out of the Pits.