Even after 17 years on the job, things haven't gotten stale for High Tech High School principal Karol M. Brancato. "Every graduating class has its own personality," she said recently. "They can be playful or serious. This one has a very nice tone. They're very generous and kind spirited." High Tech is a countywide school based in North Bergen, part of the Hudson County Schools of Technology.

High Tech's Tennis Team captured its fourth consecutive Seglio Division title, helmed by coach Dave Polito, and as a result, High Tech athletes made this season's All-HCIAA Tennis Team, as generated by the Jersey Journal, announced Principal Karol Brancato.

This semester in Mr. Richardson’s class the students created another weekly radio show to add on to the accomplishments of last year’s History, Jazz and Me which aired on WHIT radio. The new show for this year was titled KAS Culture and helped to launch the new WKAS radio station. The show would be broadcasted live on the air every Wednesday and Thursday. Students learned many things by just being involved with a radio show in general. They were able to go behind the scenes to see and feel what it was like to be a real radio broadcaster.

This summer, High Tech Performing Arts Chair Scott Killian, a resident of North Bergen and a professional composer in his own right, will be scoring original music and undertaking sound design for three productions at the prestigious Berkshire Theatre Festival, announced Principal Karol Brancato.

(Jersey City -  May 5, 2008) A County Prep student has been selected to participate in the 2008 W.E.B. DuBois Institute, to be held this summer at the Princeton University campus.

Jersey City -  April 18, 2008) County Prep Coastal Biology class raised oysters in their classroom and then planted them into the Shrewsbury River - the first class ever to do so -- as part of the Baykeeper Volunteer Day activities to help protect, preserve, and restore the ecology of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary.