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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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 …
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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, …
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Tech Valley High School would like to thank the Foundation of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl. for the financial support of the school’s inaugural summer camp this upcoming July. The foundation will donate a $2,000 Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs grant. “We are excited to offer these opportunities to a wide range of students, including …
“I’m two-weeks ahead of kids my age who won’t have this experience.” – Senior Cameron Smith of Wynantskill Students reflect on the opportunity to complete internships at local businesses during I-Term, an annual career exploration program. It starts freshman year and scaffolds to build in complexity over four years. I-Term gives students the opportunity to …
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