Tech Valley News
Tech Valley High School to Open in Fall 2007
Tech Valley High School will welcome its first class of students in the fall of 2007. A pilot program for 50 ninth-grade students will be housed at MapInfo’s headquarters in North Greenbush.
"Students who graduate from this high school will be prepared for any technology jobs," Barbara Nagler, the district superintendent of the Capital Region BOCES told The Record. "And we are hoping to show these students that they do not need to move out of the area to apply their knowledge in a technology-related job."
Tech Valley High School will be the first in New York state to use project-based learning methods to specialize in a mathematics, science and technology curriculum.
The high school will serve students from Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Southern Saratoga and Greene counties. A permanent site for the school – that, ultimately, will accommodate 400 students in grades 9-12 – is being researched.
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