This past year the World Language Department here at High Tech had an excellent year. Teachers and students were involved in a learning community sharing their efforts and experiences. Each student brought aboard a new challenge and perspective, making the learning experience more enjoyable and meaningful. Learning happened in classrooms, and often outside the walls of...
The County Prep/ATD Audio/Visual Production Department Instructors Rob Meyer and Nicole Martinez worked with school administration to help promote the importance of wearing school IDs. Students produced, directed, filmed and edited brief public service announcements that emphasize when and where students need to wear their photo ID cards. Mr. Meyer and Ms. Martinez’s classes made...
This Halloween HCST hosted its Inaugural Trunk-or-Treat event for the District at the Frank J. Gargiulo Campus. The event was a wonderful success, and was a great time for families to connect with the district in an informal way! It was a beautiful sunny day, kids dressed up in costumes, and had the chance to...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: We Found Out What it Means to Us! County Prep/ATD students celebrated the Week of Respect on October 3-7 in their English classes with great success. From classroom reading and writing assignments to creative, artistic displays, students worked on recognizing what respect means to them and how to show it to all throughout the...
At the EWB Center, we renovated the bathrooms in the B-Wing, and the boys bathrooms in the C-Wing. We installed an outdoor kitchen and picnic area, dehumidification units in C-wing classrooms, new fuel tanks in lot 1, and replaced the flooring in the child care facilities and several windows in the A-1 wing. We entirely...
Over the course of the summer we were busy completing our yearly technology upgrades and building maintenance projects to ensure that when students and teachers returned to their classrooms everything was running smoothly, and that all of our systems were fully up to date. Annual updates span across district-wide departments and all schools. To begin,...
This summer Explore Middle school incoming and current students participated in a STEAM Summer Innovation Camp, led by STEAM/Arts Partners in Education along with our Explore Staff. During the Camp, the students participated in STEAM community activity project-based lessons using the Engineering Design Process (EDP), Rocket Launch Pad project-based lessons that include math & science,...
County Prep/ATD High School hosted its second summer STEM Camp this year at the Earl W. Byrd Center, from July 11th - July 28th. This year's program featured frog dissections, rocket design and propulsion, as well as activities in the hydroponics lab. Students got to spend three weeks honing their science, technology, engineering and math...
Students in the HCST Music and Audio Technology Program participated in a two week Summer Camp that exposed them to hands-on, collaborative music and production experiences at the EWBC. During the first week, students worked on songwriting arrangements and performance. By the end of the week students set up the studio for the process of...
This year we gathered eleven students to partake in a Summer Film Camp where we worked collaboratively with the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. We joined forces to teach students video editing skills as well as expose them to various important health and safety topics by having students edit various filmed clips into informational videos. The...