Ballston Spa, NY: Saratoga County RPC has been selected to participate in a Home Depot’s Facebook contest to win $25,000 in Home Depot gift cards to help with their next project to help [...]

Albany, NY – The Capital Region Rotary Club is participating in a new project to provide toys and activities to the young patients at The Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center.

“Bins of Fun” will provide the Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center with 13 bins filled with toys and activities for use by the hospital’s young patients. The bins will be presented to the hospital on Friday, April 5th, at 10am.

This is the Capital Region Rotary Club’s first service project. “As we await our charter membership into Rotary District 7190,” says club founder and President Jennifer Hendricks, “we are wasting no time in serving our community. First and foremost, Rotary is all [...]

Rensselaer’s School of Engineering students are bringing the popular Exploring Engineering Days to miSci (museum of innovation and science, formerly the Schenectady Museum) from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturdays in April, April 6, April 13, April 20 and April 27.

Three or four unique Exploring Engineering Day activities will be presented every Saturday in April in 30-minute blocks of time with staggered starts of two sessions beginning at 1:00 pm and the second starting at 1:15 pm. The activities will be led by 15 different collegiate and high school teams.

Exploring Engineering Day is an engineering educational outreach program for children grade three through grade six that takes place annually on Rensselaer’s campus, most recently on Saturday, February 16, 2013. This program is supported by student leaders of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and [...]

65th Annual Albany Tulip Festival

Albany, New York – Mayor Jerry Jennings, the City of Albany and the Tulip Festival Committee seek nominations for the 2013 Tulip Queen. The deadline to nominate yourself or a person you know is Monday, April 1.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Nominees must have a strong sense of community, be knowledgeable of Albany, and possess leadership skills. Eligible nominees are women between the ages of 18 and 23 who have never been married. They must reside in Albany County for the entire year of reign (May 2013 – May 2014). http://www.albanytulipqueen.com explores the accomplishments these extraordinary women are capable of achieving.

SCHOLARSHIP:
The [...]

miSci (museum of innovation and science, formerly Schenectady Museum) is offering extended hours during Spring Break and will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30, Monday, April 1 through Saturday, April 6 and 12 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 7. miSci is closed Easter Sunday, March 31. Discover Butterflies before it closes for this year on April 7 as well as Seeing, planetarium shows, hands-on science activities, demos and NanoDays, a national celebration of nanoscale science featuring educator-led nanotechnology activities and demonstrations.

Visitors can escape winter’s chill and discover brilliantly colored native butterflies at Butterflies, miSci’s new indoor butterfly house open through April 7. See Monarchs, Black Swallowtails, Painted Ladies, Spicebush Swallowtails, and Tiger Swallowtails flying about (and possibly landing on you!) as [...]

The American Meditation Institute (AMI), in joint sponsorship with the Albany Medical College, will present the fifth annual mind/body medicine CME course on meditation and yoga for physicians and other health care professionals, November 6-10, 2013 at the Cranwell Resort and Spa in Lenox, Massachusetts. Entitled “American Meditation: The Heart and Science of Yoga”, this comprehensive physician training is accredited through the Albany Medical College Office of Continuing Medical Education.

As part of AMI’s “Yoga of Medicine” program, this retreat is dedicated to providing quality, comprehensive and evidence-based education to physicians and other health care providers. This CME course will offer a broad curriculum of Yoga Science [...]

ALBANY, NY: The City of Albany and the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District (BID) announce the 2nd Annual Downtown Albany Blues Music Contest. The competition, slated for Friday, May 3, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM, will take place in numerous downtown Albany establishments, and feature regional and local blues bands competing for the prize of playing at one of the City of Albany’s Alive at Five outdoor concerts this summer.

This year’s competition includes an increase in the stipend for local and regional bands, as well as a new scoring method. 50% of the vote will be designated by a distinguished judge and 50% of the vote will be designated by popular vote. Attendees will be invited to vote for their favorite performance throughout the evening [...]