Consultants meet with CTE faculty

Feb 18, 2015

Last month, more than 80 area business people attended the Consultant Committee breakfast at the Columbia-Greene Education Center (CGEC) in Hudson to discuss curriculum and work-based learning opportunities for Career and Technical Education (CTE) students....

Learning through the arts

Feb 17, 2015

Questar III’s Arts and Enrichment program helps schools integrate the arts into classroom learning through its facilitation of visiting artists and arts and cultural partnerships.

Since 2006, Questar III BOCES has supported a partnership between the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Troy City School District.

Preparing for forensics career

Feb 12, 2015

As a freshman at Germantown High School, Gabrielle Cidras attended an open House at the Columbia-Greene Educational Center (CGEC) with her older sister who was interested in the Culinary Arts program. At that time, not old enough to enroll in the program, Cidras told...

QIII celebrates CTE month

Feb 10, 2015

During the month of February we celebrate Black History Month and the nation’s Presidents but we also call attention to the power of a long-standing education program that prepares millions of students for success beyond high school. Questar III is joining others...

How the power grid works

Feb 5, 2015

Questar III’s Green Technologies & Renewable Energy and Tech Valley High School students toured the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) headquarters in North Greenbush. The tour was the culmination of projects where students had built and worked with...

QIII students help staff eat healthier

Feb 4, 2015

Employees at the Questar III Main Office have some help in making healthy food choices at work.  Students in Lindsay Estaris’ class at Rensselaer Academy have made a set of index cards which lists the nutritional values for every item in the vending machine. The cards...

GWS students get a special visitor

Jan 29, 2015

Students at George Washington School had a special visitor Thursday morning as part of their monthly PBIS (Positive Behavior and Support) assembly.  Hudson the Railroad Puppy and his handler, Rich Nash, visited the students to help highlight the school’s “skill of the...

Interim TVHS leadership announced

Jan 16, 2015

The leadership of Questar III and Capital Region BOCES announced that former school administrators Kathy Meany and Karen D. McGraw will make up the transition team taking the lead at Tech Valley High School for the remainder of the school year while a nation-wide...