{"id":1986,"date":"2011-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/ballston-spa-announces-collaboration-at-tec-smart\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:00:00","slug":"ballston-spa-announces-collaboration-at-tec-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/ballston-spa-announces-collaboration-at-tec-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballston Spa Announces Collaboration at TEC SMART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ballston Spa Central School District hosted its board of education meeting last evening at the TEC-SMART facility in Malta.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators from the school district and Hudson Valley Community College unveiled a new program of study for high school students focusing on the areas of clean technologies and sustainable industries. The program, which will begin in the 2011-2012 academic year, was developed as a response to the emerging companies and career opportunities in the  region as well as the need to prepare a work force that meets future economic development needs.<\/p>\n<p>Students from Ballston Spa High School&#8217;s Sustainable Design class shared information they&#8217;ve learned about energy and building materials in relation to CHIPS and LEED certification. The Sustainable Design curriculum allows students to gain experience through authentic learning at the TEC-SMART facility.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the collaboration, 11th grade students from Ballston Spa next year will take some courses at the TEC SMART facility and other buildings in the Saratoga Technology and Energy Park (STEP) as well as courses at their hone school. Students will have the potential to earn up to 11 HVCC credits. The program is set to brtanch out to lower grade levels as well.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ballston Spa Central School District hosted its board of education meeting last evening at the TEC-SMART facility in Malta.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}