The Theatre Arts vacation has given a new performance opportunity to High Tech Drama Majors students, who are learning both performance and rehearsal practices and are encountering firsthand all aspects of professional theater. The show had complete live accompaniment by renowned pianist Craig Ketter, senior drummer Josiah Szczepanski, and award-winning saxophonist Isaac Ketter under the...
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High Tech’s 11th Annual Sock Drive
High Tech’s 11th Annual Sock Drive for the Hoboken Shelter will run through December 20th this year. The Hoboken Shelter is always looking for socks so High Tech staff and students have been helping the shelter by collecting and providing them with new pairs of socks for the past 11 years. Last year, our school...
High Tech’s IRB Panel
In AP Research class, High Tech students are currently working on coming up with an interesting, fun, and valid research topic that they can experiment with throughout the course of the year. Students explore different areas of interest, read about significant topics today, and utilize other resources to gather information to create an abstract...
Dr Witham’s Landscape Audit
Placed within the Hackensack Meadowlands of Northern New Jersey is our beautiful High Tech High School campus, surrounded by a rich assortment of flowers, trees, and shrubs. The ecosystem around the school consists of tidal marshes, salt marshes, and other wetland habitats which are scattered among a mass of industrial landscapes. There is also a...
Entrepreneurship Club
DFAB Academy Senior Riana Wadhwani has started High Tech High School’s very first Entrepreneurship Club. When asked what prompted her to spearhead this brand new initiative, she responded, “I’ve always been interested in having my own business. The liberty of being my own boss and bringing my passion to contribute to the economy excites me....
Composting Initiative
For the 2022-23 school year, we are kicking off a school-wide waste reduction initiative. This initiative was kicked off this summer by planning done by Environmental Science student John Kubowics and CulSci Supervisor Ms. Doria. Our goal is to reduce the amount of school’s food waste that’s entering landfills so we need our whole community...
CULINARY ARTS & MUSICAL THEATER STUDENTS COMBINE TALENTS AT HCST FOR HOMECOMING SHOW
The combined talents of students enrolled in the Performing Arts Academy at the Frank J. Gargiulo campus with those in High Tech High School's Culinary Arts Department made for a spectacular showing of Homecoming on Tuesday night in Secaucus. It was an evening of great food and fabulous performances on stage from present students and...
HTHS Student Represents at DC Journalism Conference
(Secaucus, NJ––September 15, 2022) High Tech’s Jyanna Schillari, a junior in the Arts Academy, was selected to as a National Youth Correspondent to represent Secaucus, NJ, at the 2022 Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University, announced Ms. Kathy Young, Principal of High Tech High School. Schillari, who was chosen based on her...
HCST Students Visit Dorney Park
County Prep and High Tech students visited Dorney Park on Tuesday, June 14 for an educational and fun-filled day. Students paired off into groups and engaged in activities conducive to developing and refining social skills.
HTHS eSports Team Sweeps Competition at County Tournament
(Secaucus, NJ––June 8, 2022) Led by instructor Mr. Jared Krinsky, High Tech’s eSports team completed a sweep of the competition at the Helix eSports County Championship in May and became state champions in two categories at the Garden State eSports (GSE) competition in June, closing out a record year for the team, announced Ms. Kathy...