Category: High Tech High School

(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...

(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...

(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...

(New York—June 3, 2017) Judges from the United Nations International School (UNIS) honored three High Tech High School students and two High Tech teachers at the 11th annual UNIS Haiku Contest in English, French, and Japanese Awards Assembly, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. High Tech students Emily Ortega (senior) of North Bergen won...

(June 5, 2017--North Bergen, NJ) High Tech held a senior doubles badminton tournament, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Mingyu Zhao of Harrison and partner Indhu Kanakaraj of Bayonne won the tournament, beating runners-up Anthony Chae of Harrison and Cara Rosner of Hoboken. “I’m very proud of our badminton players,” says...

(May 30, 2017--North Bergen, NJ) Renowned actress of film and television, Ann Robinson, paid the High Tech Performing Arts students a visit, sharing her remarkable life experience in show business, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Robinson offered the High Tech Performing Arts students an oral history of her rise to...

(Jersey City, NJ—May 23, 2017) This year, the Hudson County Alliance of Teen Artists has selected five High Tech students to have their art exhibited at the New Jersey City University Art Gallery, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. Bayonne residents Amanda Chang and Jillian Wiadzionek, Lauren Krasnoff of Guttenberg, Union City resident...

(Livingston, NJ—May 17, 2017) Hoboken resident Rebecca Klein-Cohen of High Tech has won Second Place in the national Library of Congress program, Letters About Literature, and she took part in the 2017 celebration for New Jersey’s winners, held at the Student Center at the Livingston Campus of Rutgers University, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of...

(Long Valley, NJ—May 13, 2017) Ten High Tech students participated in the 2017 Envirothon, where thirty teams from across the Garden State converged at Schooley's Mountain Park for the competition, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Two High Tech Envirothon teams competed.  Team #2, consisting of Sarah Bacha, Soham Shah, and...

(Wayne, NJ—May 18, 2017) William Paterson University held its 34th Annual Orlando Saa Foreign Language Poetry Recitation Contest, and again, High Tech distinguished itself in the contest for German, French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. The following High Tech students received special recognition for the Orlando Saa Foreign Language Poetry Recitation Contest:...