By Tanushri Shah (Toms River, NJ—March 30, 2017) On Thursday, March 30th, and Friday, March 31st, High Tech Students visited Ocean County College for the First Annual South Jersey Junior Science Symposium, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Students presented more than sixty research projects from STEM fields at the Junior...
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College and Career Fair a Success at County Prep High School
County Prep hosted a college and career fair on March 16th 2017. There were many hands that helped to orchestrate this event from administrators, teachers, counselors, and Ms. Galluccio to maintenance and security staff, transportation staff and our Culinary Program. Colleges, universities, as well as the military and apprenticeship programs were in attendance. There were...
Asian Cultures Club of High Tech Celebrates Holi
By Tanushri Shah and Jeel Shah (North Bergen, NJ—March 24, 2017) The Asian Cultures Club celebrated the festival of Holi, an Indian tradition in which people play with colorful powders, to spread its message of cultural diversity, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. This festival, originally intended to celebrate good’s triumph...
County Prep High School Students Attend The Beneath the Sea Marine Careers Program
On Friday March 24th, 2017, 19 County Prep students attended the Beneath the Sea Marine Careers Programs with chaperones Casey DeBaun, Nick LaVolpe and Caroline Ulivella. Students had the unique opportunity to meet many “hall of famers” in the world of diving, try marine career-related interactive activities and speak with representatives from marine career programs...
High Tech Students Receive Medals at the Hudson County STEM Showcase Awards Ceremony
(Jersey City, NJ—March 28, 2017) Mariam Abdelmoul of Jersey City, North Bergen resident Jeel Shah, and Shreyas Agarwal of Secaucus, all students at High Tech High School, picked up awards for their research projects at the 59th Annual Hudson County STEM Showcase Awards Ceremony, held at the Margaret Williams Theatre at New Jersey City University...
County Prep World Literature Classes Host Class Poetry Readings
In anticipation of National Poetry Month next month, students in Mrs. Ashe’s World Literature classes wrote their own poems inspired by works of art. These ekphrastic poems were the center of world poetry readings they held on Friday March 24th in their classes. Students read original lyric poems, narratives, and haikus. They are looking forward...
Harvard Summer School Program for High School Students Accepts High Tech’s Alonzo Cortez
(Cambridge, MA—March 22, 2017) Bayonne resident Alonzo Cortez, a sophomore at High Tech’s D|FAB Academy, will attend the Harvard Summer School Program for High School Students, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. This program, designed to prepare high school students academically and socially for a successful college experience, provides Cortez with the chance...
High Tech’s AP Biology Students Attend Undergraduate Research Symposium
By Kevleen Plaha and Sahil Patel, High Tech High School (Jersey City, NJ—March 6, 2017) For the third year in a row, AP Biology students from Dr. Nina Lavlinskaia’s courses at High Tech High School spent time at Governors Hall in Liberty Science Center for the Independent College Fund of New Jersey’s Undergraduate Research Symposium,...
High Tech Dance Majors Participate in Regional High School Dance Festival in Norfolk, VA
(Norfolk, VA—March 20, 2017) The High Tech junior and senior dance majors returned from a five-day trip to the Regional High School Dance Festival, where they participated in three days of intense workshops and auditions for both college and summer study scholarships, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Senior Kayla Alvarez...
Letters About Literature Recognizes Four High Tech Students
(Piscataway, NJ—March 12, 2017) Out of almost 2,000 letters submitted from New Jersey in the 2016-2017 Letters About Literature contest, High Tech High School received notice that four of its students had been recognized at the 2017 Letters About LiteratureAward Ceremony at Rutgers University’s Livingston College Student Center, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High...