The Workforce Consortium for Emerging Technologies designed and secured the speakers for the conference titled “Green Jobs, What all the Hoopla?” This event engaged about 70 educators in a program that featured presentations from NYSERDA, RPI, IBEW, GE Wind Energy, Renewable (Solar) Power Systems Inc., HVCC, FMCC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
This summer Rensselaer’s National Science Foundation funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center will be conducting our second Nanotechnology Curriculum Development Summer Institute. We hope to have up to ten regional school districts participate in a three week program that will educate high school science and/or technology teachers in the science of nanotechnology and field-tested curriculum modules. This unique professional development opportunity is the result of a collaborative effort between Rensselaer, Washington Saratoga Warren Hamilton Essex BOCES (WSWHE BOCES) and the Workforce Consortium for Emerging Technologies (WCET).