Year: 2017

A street art project in a Tech Valley High art class gave junior Gabe Boyd a deeper understanding of his roots and his artistry after learning that his uncle was the “king of graffiti” when the movement emerged in New York City in the 1970s. Boyd’s late uncle was Clifford Goodman, who was known as …

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The 10th grade chemistry class recently hosted a trade show so students could present their alternative energy projects to SUNY Polytechnic Institute scientists, professors and graduate students.  The project put students into the roles of marketing sales representatives who had to promote energy products with interactive displays. They had to explain scientific concepts behind the …

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Tech Valley High School Operating Board President Paul Puccio received the first-ever Excellence in School Board Service Award at CASDA’s Regional Education Awards Dinner at the Albany Marriott on April 12.  In addition to his service to Tech Valley High, Puccio has served on the Schodack CSD Board of Education since 1980 and the Questar …

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The 9th grade bioengineering class recently went to SUNY Polytechnic Institute so students could present their research and experiments on how hydrogels are used in drug delivery for cancer treatment. Each team researched a different reproductive cancer and also did an experiment to determine how the surface area of a hydrogel is related to the …

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Tech Valley High School’s biennial trip to China gave a group of students and staff members the experience of a lifetime during their spring break. Nineteen students and three staff members flew to Beijing on Thursday, April 13. The trip has been highlighted by visits to sites including, but not limited to, the Great Wall, …

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Members of the graduating Class of 2017 have received college acceptance notices from 40 institutions so far this year. Congratulations, and good luck as you consider which school to attend! Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Brown University Clarkson University Columbia University Cornell University  Duke University  Emmanuel College Hofstra University Howard University Hudson Valley …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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