SUNY Schenectady HCAT program is there to lead us students in the correct direction for success…read more From the President Mooney, Dean Drough, Chef Staments, Chef House of Payne, Chef Cerrone, Chef Withey, Chef Hatalsky, Chef Travers, Professor Larkin, Professor Otis, Professor Waldie, Professor Golding, TA FLOYD, Chef Krebs and the Lab Techs who all tirelessly push us to excellence with each teaching complementing each other bringing balance and reachable progressions to achieve our goals. Gracias from grateful students!!!!!

My first review was made after I had online only classes, my last semester I had the unfortunate…read moreexperience of being on campus and meeting the administrators. Expect random employees to give you the cold shoulder if you present as LGBT, others will openly share homophobic viewpoints, when reported there will be no actions taken. The Chair of the Board, who is also director of admissions at Union, glared at every student who wore traditional Muslim clothing at graduation while she assisted with handing out diplomas, it's clearly visible in video from the 2024 graduation. I'm not sure how someone with openly bigoted religious views got appointed to the board but my guess is campaign contributions had a lot to do with it. This person was also verbally hostile and went out of her way to make students feel uncomfortable at the public event I attended with her. If you have options to attend another school I'd suggest taking them. I would say the teachers are wonderful which is why I enjoyed the online classes, but they are overworked and underfunded which again points to poor administration. The fish rots from the head and SUNY Schenectady stinks.

We were here on a Sunday morning. Great place to take a walk or hike. The trail were very well…read moremaintained. Plenty of parking space. Highly recommended!

If you're visiting Albany and looking for a place to take a stroll or job, this is like a mini-pine…read morebarrens (similar to what you might see in New Jersey). I would stay to the trails (Madison loop) to minimize the risk of catching ticks. In July 2024, it was pleasant in the early morning hours for a refreshing walk. However, there is not much shade on the walking trails, so it will be blazing hot mid-day. Street parking was relatively easy near the perimeter of the pine bush preserve.

File under bee. We had a cousin who died in charming Niskayuna, New York. Due to the current…read moreAdministration's total screw up of the airlines industry, we took Amtrak with its 10% Military / Veterans Discount, with a bus transfer from the Schenectady, NY train station, to and from for the funeral. While there, we visited the very high-quality ranked Niskayuna High School. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. -- Dr. Seuss Did you know that Niskayuna High School Library has honey bees that have made it their home since 2016? I didn't until my recent visit. This review focuses on my discovery of and visit to the Niskayuna High School Library Honey Bee Interpretive Center. Science teacher Paul Scott's first task was to get approval to bring a beehive into the school. "Make sure you start with the people who are most likely to be affected by it," advises Scott, who first consulted the school nurse about allergy concerns and the grounds crew before obtaining permission from the principal. Thousands of honeybees busy themselves inside the school's observation hive, built and installed by Scott and another teacher in 2016. People who don't want to interact with the bees aren't forced to as the location of the hive was no afterthought: The media center, with its large windows overlooking an enclosed courtyard, is a prime and safe location for students to watch bees exit and enter the hive through the pipe that connects the hive to the outdoors. And it's a hub of activity at the school. You might think, what do bees eat there? Don't worry, bees can fly up to 5 miles from their hive to collect food, but there are plenty of trees and other plants blooming throughout the city. Each beehive could have up to 60 thousand bees, and while many are out foraging for food, about 2/3 of the colony stays home to clean, care for the young, make honey, guard the hive, and take care of the queen bee. Donna McAndrews, the school's library media specialist, developed a "bee corner" around the hive, displaying books and informational posters related to bees. What happens when a bee moves to a new hive? They have a house-swarming party! That was proudly told to me by one of the students there. The library staff is friendly, professional, helpful, smart, family-friendly, and disabled-friendly. "What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." -Dr. Carl Sagan, Cosmos "I'm tired of that stupid phrase, "the birds and the bees" which is supposed to represent "the facts of life" or the beginnings of the sex instruction of the young. Why for heaven's sake, has anyone ever tried to explain sex by talking about the birds and the bees? What have the birds and the bees to do with it? IT'S THE BEES AND THE FLOWERS. Will you get that through your head? IT'S THE BEES AND THE FLOWERS. The bee travels to one flower and picks up pollen from the stamens. The pollen contains the male sex cells of the plant. The bee then travels to another flower (of the same species) and the pollen brushes off onto the pistil, which contains the female sex cells of the plant. ... Now in the human being ... we don't rely on bees to do it for us." -- Dr. Isaac Asimov, US Army Veteran, scientist and Grand Master science fiction author P.S. Don't message me because in spite of my several complaints to yelp, for years now I am unable to open up any messages in yelp to me :-(

It's that time of year... concerts!…read more All my kids went to Niskayuna Schools and now my grandkids are going here. Located in a small town/suburb of Schenectady New York and is ranked very high in the state. Go Niskayuna Warriors!

The most incredible homeschool art class I could ever hope for!…read more It is with a heavy heart that my family is moving out of state, not because we dread the move but because we dread leaving Art In Mind. I kid you not, our family looks forward to coming to art class every week and drag our feet to leave when it's over. You won't find a more family-friendly, educationally well-rounded venue for kids to learn about art history, artists, techniques, vocabulary and more. Mrs. Hall does an incredible job putting together a curriculum for children of all ages and abilities and is like no other when it comes to delivering an education that leaves kids hungry for more. You will not be disappointed!

This is a special school in the Schenectady, New York area, that serves children with many…read moredifferent abilities. They have before and after school care with highly trained staff and lots of opportunities. Come check us out!