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Chamber Cruise
The sun is shining and it seems like the good weather could potentially be around the corner!
We have confirmed 11 chambers for the cruise again this year: Albany-Colonie, Bethlehem, Colonie, Columbia, Fulton, Guilderland, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and Southern Saratoga
Date: July 8, 2010
Cost:
$36 per person
Location: Captain JP Cruise Line, 278
River Street in Troy
Boarding Time: 5:30pm
Sailing Time: 6:30 -8pm
There will be heavy hor douerves & drink specials.
Once again, the policy will be “A registration paid is a registration made!”
J Reservations will be confirmed after payment is received.
Please have attendees register through me at
274.7474
Thanks so much for everything! Looking forward to seeing everyone!
The second Economic Summit will be held on September 30, 2010, at the Elks. All proceeds, after expenses, will be to benefit the new home of the Chamber of Commerce, the XO Tower.
TVCC focuses on regions growth
Newly updated portal, educational initiatives are key components
Since 2002, the Tech Valley Chamber Coalition (TVCC) has positioned the 19-county, Tech Valley region as a diverse tech sector with numerous opportunities for employment, scientific growth and economic development.
The TVCC is a collaboration among 24 Chambers whose goal is to promote Tech Valley as a region with rewarding career and business prospects, world-class educational and research facilities and outstanding quality of life, while also recognizing individual community assets throughout the region.
Recently, the Tech Valley Portal, www.techvalley.org, was updated with new information and links along with region-specific content for each of the four sub-regions within Tech Valley. The Portal is the primary marketing tool in recruiting a skilled work force to the region, providing descriptions of the educational, residential, professional and recreational opportunities that exist within the region.
Tech Valley stretches from the Canadian border near Montreal to just north of New York City and includes the following sub-regions and counties:
Capital Region
Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Washington
Hudson Valley
Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Ulster
Adirondacks/North Country
Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Warren
Mohawk Valley
Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery
Chambers that belong to the TVCC represent more than 20,000 businesses, schools and organizations employing more than 531,000 workers.
Participating Chambers are linked from the Tech Valley portal, increasing exposure for Chamber members throughout Tech Valley and the globe.
In addition to facilitating economic development and managing the Tech Valley Portal, the TVCC sponsors two educational initiatives, the Tech Valley Teacher Externship Program and Love SAM.
The Tech Valley Teacher Externship Program provides middle- and high-school teachers with applicable, hands-on work experience in high-tech environments. Teacher Externship is primarily funded by Citizens Bank.
The program, which runs from four to eight weeks between July 1 and August 31, is designed to expose teachers to careers in the math, science and technology fields, and educate them about the skills that are needed for the future workforce in Tech Valley.
Love SAM (Science and Math) is a regional initiative that received initial funding from GE. Through the program, elementary students at six schools throughout Tech Valley benefit from enhanced science and math content.
The program is the result of a collaborative effort between business and education leaders in the region who recognize the growing need for a more highly skilled workforce to help expand Tech Valley’s growing high-tech economy
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The Lois McClure’s Visit to Mechanicville
Grand
Isle, VT – The
Lake Champlain Basin Program encourages residents to embrace the
September 4-5 Mechanicville arrival of the Lake Champlain
Maritime Museum’s replica canal schooner Lois
McClure as she
continues her voyage as goodwill ambassador for Lake Champlain’s
Quadricentennial celebration this summer. Please bring your
friends and family aboard so that interpreters may share this
unique period of Lake Champlain ’s history.
A new resource, Discover 1609, a bi-lingual booklet highlighting indigenous cultures, Champlain’s and Hudson’s explorations, and the age of commerce will be available to the public aboard the Lois McClure. This booklet provides a great introduction to link the Quebec celebration in 2008 with the celebration here in the Champlain Valley in 2009. The 2008 State of the Lake report developed by the Lake Champlain Basin Program will also be available aboard the Lois McClure.
The Discover 1609 voyage of the Lois McClure to 20 New York and Vermont ports of call is completed in partnership with the National Park Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, Lake Champlain Transportation, Cabot, and the Lake Champlain Basin Program.
http://www.lcmm.org/our_fleet/
The schooner Lois McClure is an 88’ full-scale replica of an 1862-class sailing canal boat, constructed in Burlington , Vermont by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum . The Lois McClure is modeled after two sailing canal schooner shipwrecks that were documented by the Museum on the bottom of Burlington Harbor . In 1823, the Northern Canal connecting Lake Champlain to the Hudson River was completed. Lake Champlain , which since the end of the American Revolution had been an expanding commercial highway, now virtually exploded in trade. The early edition of Lake Champlain sailing-canal boat, known as the 1823 class, was built as an "experiment" and designed to be able to sail from distant lake ports to the canal on wind power. Upon reaching the canal, the masts were lowered and centerboard raised and the now transformed vessel could directly enter the canal. The Lois McClure represents the 1862-class vessel.
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