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Explore 2000 Middle Schools Revs Up for STEM Race Car Competition (Jersey City, NJ)

Campers of Explore 2000 just completed their first week of Summer STEM Race Car Challenge.  Girls and boys throughout Hudson County, from various schools within our community have been actively engaged in forming teams, designing logos, creating air-propelled puff mobiles, testing cars, trial races and practicing their driving and technical skills with the race cars....

High Tech Students “Dig” in at the Hard Rock Cafe

(New York, NY—June 17, 2016) Veteran High Tech Language Arts instructor Robert Dillon and Social Studies teacher Ronald Kliesh escorted sophomores to the famous Hard Rock Café to complete their final project on rock and roll’s connection to critical moments in history and American culture, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. Sophomores researched...

High Tech’s Jeremy Lewan and Friends Embark on Twenty-two-Mile Hudson County Bicycle Tour

(North Bergen, NJ—June 22, 2016) Bayonne resident Jeremy Lewan, a sophomore at High Tech, and three friends embarked on a 22-mile bicycling tour, documenting their journey in an amateur, but professional-grade, video, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. This video, recorded and edited by Lewan himself, captures his bicycling adventures with...

High Tech Scores Big in 2016 National Spanish Exams

(North Bergen, NJ—April 28, 2016) – Thirty-six High Tech students of Spanish, levels I and II, scored exemplarily well in the 2016 National Spanish Exam (NSE), sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. The NSE assesses students’ proficiency in the Spanish...

County Prep Theatre Arts Students Receive Scholarships to Summer Workshop

County Prep Theatre Arts Students Kailyn Vazquez and Elizabeth Flores received full scholarships to attend prestigious theatre program! Circle in the Square Theatre School, the only accredited training conservatory associated with a Broadway theatre in NYC, awarded County Prep Junior Kailyn Vazquez and County Prep Senior Elizabeth Flores full scholarships for their 7-week intensive Summer...

Jeremy Lewan of High Tech to Attend Penn State’s Advanced Weather Camp

(State College, PA—June 20, 2016) Bayonne resident Jeremy Lewan, a sophomore at High Tech High School, has been accepted into Penn State's prestigious Advanced Weather Camp, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. At Penn State's Advanced Weather Camp, to be held June 26th -July 1st, Lewan will receive hands-on training in meteorological science, including...

County Prep’s Joshua Dunn Completes First Season with Papermill Playhouse Broadway Show Choir

Mrs. Shields is proud to announce that Joshua Dunn, Senior Theatre Arts student here at County Prep, is about to finish his first season with Papermill Playhouse Broadway Show Choir. Joshua says that “this has been an amazing opportunity and an incredible learning experience.” They have performed all over NJ and NY, went on their...