In just its fifth year, County Prep Theatre Arts class has brought a new performance opportunity to County Prep students, who are learning both performance and rehearsal practices, and are encountering first hand all of the aspects of professional theater. The show was designed by our professional lighting designer, Mr. Lance Michel,...
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High Tech’s Vibha Chauhan and Samantha Danette Martinez-Mendoza among Those Receiving Scholarship from Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center
from Hudson Reporter (North Bergen–May 22, 2017) Palisades Medical Center–affiliated with the Hackensack University Health Network–announced the winners of its annual $32,000 Merit Scholarship program in a press release Friday. Two graduating seniors each from eight high schools near the hospital earned $2,000 in scholarship money. The winners and their families dined with community leaders...
County Prep Alumna Alexia Velazquez Won the Foxy Award for Outstanding Performance
Mrs. Shields is very excited to announce that our 2016 production of Ondine, by Jean Giraudoux, has brought home one Foxy award this year. Our production has received nominations for Outstanding Achievement for an Acting Ensemble of a Classic Play, and three Outstanding Performance Nominations for Senior Adam Hassan (Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor...
High Tech Science Majors Attend YSAP’s 29th Annual Awards & Student Symposium
by Andrew Tran (Bedminster, NJ―June 7, 2017) At the AT&T Global Network Operations Center, High Tech science majors presented their research for the Young Science Achievers Program (YSAP) symposium, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. Earlier this year, students submitted proposals to the YSAP Foundation for a chance to receive grants to conduct...
County Prep World Language Department Wins at Poetry Contest
The County Prep World Language Department is proud to announce that County Prep students excelled once more at the 34th Annual Orlando Saa Foreign Languages Poetry Recitation Contest, held at William Paterson University on May 18. This year, about sixty high schools participated in this great event and one of our students, Alexander B. Berman, won First...
Project Hayes
(Jersey City, NJ) Henrik Van Tassell, a first year student at Explore 2000 Middle School, has proven that his interest in technology equates to work that demonstrates his advanced knowledge, and skills in many areas of the 21 century learning environment. Explore 2000 has had the privilege of providing the students with a robotics program...
High Tech Science League Earns Three Plaques This Year
(June 5, 2017–North Bergen, NJ) High Tech Science League competitors Andrew Tran of Kearny and Shrevas Agarwal of Secaucus have scored in the top 10% of all New Jersey students for Biology II and Physics C, respectively, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Tran, a Kearny resident, earned a student plaque in Biology...
High Tech TV Production Student David Mansour Wins Best Writer Award at SNY Future Filmmakers Festival
(June 6, 2017—Brooklyn, NY) High Tech sophomore David Mansour, a TV Production student from Bayonne, entered his High Tech-produced film in the SportsNet New York (SNY) Future Filmmakers Festival and won an award for Best Writer, bringing home a $1,000 prize, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. SNY, home network of...
High Tech’s Amanda Chang Receives American Association of Teachers of French Award
(June 8, 2017—Marion, IL) High Tech senior Amanda Chang of Bayonne has received a 2017 Outstanding Senior in French Award from the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. The AATF Outstanding Senior in French Award, made annually to a graduating senior who has demonstrated...
High School Heroes Program a Success for County Prep Student Participants
Aspiring young teachers at County Prep participated in Junior Achievement’s High School Heroes Program on October 26th, January 11th, and April 26th. The students shadowed teachers and then returned to Cordero School to teach Junior Achievement’s interactive elementary school curriculum. The lesson plans focused on educational standards with grade appropriate themes of personal economics, business, work force readiness and the importance of staying...