
Mechanicville student delivers winning speech
MECHANICVILLE — Mechanicville High School senior Julia Amodeo has a new feather to add to her cap just a few months before graduation: first place in the statewide Annual Free Enterprise Marathon for Entrepreneurial High School and College Students.
Amodeo, 17, is a senior at Mechanicville High School and a resident of Halfmoon. She got involved with the Clean Technologies Early College High School program during her junior year. Clean Tech ECHS is a program —led by Ballston Spa Central School District and involves many more area school districts — that prepares high school students for college courses and careers relating to energy efficiency.
Clean Tech competed in the enterprise marathon this year on March 9 at SUNY Plattsburgh and Amodeo placed first for her speech, “Free Enterprise...