Student podcasts about cutting-edge technology are aired on the radio

Freshmen recently went live on the air and played DJs for a day in presenting podcasts at WRPI, the campus radio station at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. The bioengineering class recorded podcasts to describe a cool cutting-edge genetic technology for a project about DNA. They learned about DNA and how it works, how this …

Sophomore’s short story earns first place in statewide contest

Tech Valley High School is proud to announce that sophomore Purevsuren Batdorj of Rensselaer won first place in the New York Future Problem Solving Program’s annual State Bowl in Long Island on March 12. Batdorj was awarded a trophy for her creative short story “A Child of Mali” in the “scenario writing” category of the …

Dragons earn quarterfinal finish at FIRST Robotics Competition

Tech Valley High School is proud to announce that the Dragons made it to the quarterfinals in just their second year of competing in the regional FIRST Robotics Competition held March 17-18 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. FIRST challenges teams to build and program industrial-sized robots in just six weeks to play a difficult field game …

Odyssey of the Mind team places third at regional competition

The Tech Valley High School Odyssey of the Mind team placed third in Division 3 for Problem 5 during a regional tournament held at Shenendehowa High School Saturday, March 5. Team members include MacKenzie Squair of Cobleskill-Richmondville, Brooklyn Darling of Wynantskill, Mary Rose Duffy of Guilderland, Sylvia Shablovsky of Coxsackie-Athens, Alexandra O’Keefe of Cairo-Durham, and …

Students and teachers learn side-by-side at computer science workshop

Students and teachers learned side-by-side when 20 educators from around the region joined Tech Valley High School for a free computer science workshop.  The event, titled “Do You Arduino?” introduced educators to the Arduino microcontroller. Arduino is a small, programmable, low-cost circuit board that is energizing the “maker” movement worldwide. By coding this little device, …