CP Culinary Arts Students Running One of the Hottest New Restaurants!

Take a look at who’s running one of the hottest new restaurants! 

Dale Talde was featured on Top Chef, Food Networks “Iron Chef” and among many other TV appearances. He is one of the new creative young chefs in the country. He currently owns Talde Brooklyn, Talde Jersey City and Talde Miami. So what does that have to do with County Prep High School? Well the entire line is from our CPHS Culinary Arts program. Chef Collins asked Mark Luna, who was on the line (Hot appetizers and entrees) at the restaurant, “How many positions are in the kitchen?”  Here replied, “Five on the hot line.” He asked, “Who was working?” Ashley Angeles, Athena Bellotti, Joaquin Cariaso, Mark Luna, Oswaldo Morraz.

They are all students from Chef Collins Culinary Arts program, running one of the top restaurants in the county.  Chef Collins was completely surprised to find out that his students were in this position.  He knew all of them were working in the restaurant but did not realize they were running the kitchen. Chef Collins said, “I’m very proud of them for their accomplishments and it would not be possible without the support of our administration and their dedication to our craft”.

Jeremy Lewan of High Tech Accepted as a 2017-2018 National Hispanic Recognition Scholar

(New York, NY—September 13, 2017) Bayonne resident Jeremy Lewan, a senior at High Tech, has been accepted into the 2017-2018 National Hispanic Recognition Program, which acknowledges about 5,000 academically outstanding students from more than 250,000 Hispanic/Latino juniors who take the PSAT/NMSQT®, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High school.

To be eligible for the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP), students must possess at least one-quarter Hispanic/Latino ancestry and achieve a specific high percentile PSAT/NMSQT score (1460/220 in New Jersey).  

Students with a cumulative junior-year grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 or higher and involved in extracurricular and community activities also receive designation as scholars.  Lewan has received such a designation. 

The NHRP proudly honors outstanding students like Lewan and makes their scholastic information available to subscribing colleges and universities.

“I'm very proud that I’ll be able to include recognition as a National Hispanic Recognition Scholar on my college, scholarship, internship, and job applications,” says Lewan, an inductee into the National Hispanic Honor Society at High Tech and gold medalist in the 2017 National Spanish Exam.

Lewan hopes to study meteorology after high school.