County Prep High School English Teacher Pens Essay about Literacy

County Prep English teacher Taryn Ashe is a Little Free Library steward here in Hudson County. She recently wrote about the organization and the article was published in The School Library Journal this week. Please see link below for the full article.

https://slj.com/?detailStory=Little-Free-Libraries-Pet-Projects-or-Literacy-Tools

High Tech’s Brianna Paradiso Sings National Anthem at New York Rangers/New Jersey Devils Game

(New York, NY–September 24, 2018) High Tech High School junior Brianna Paradiso, a resident of Jersey City and a Musical Theatre major, recently sang the National Anthem at the New York Rangers/New Jersey Devils game at Madison Square Garden.

Four High Tech Students Accepted into Golden Door Film Festival

(September 24, 2018--Jersey City, NJ) High Tech students Cenera Davis and Iurii Martyniv of Jersey City, Secaucus resident Gabriel Chaves, and Mercy Urena of West New York, all part of instructor Jared Krinsky's Interactive Media course, have been accepted into the Golden Door International Film Festival for their animated short, The Final Pin, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School.

Set against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, the Golden Door International Film Festival serves as a four-day film festival for filmmakers, actors, and crew to network with colleagues and share their work with the public in the heart of the indie filmmaking landscape. The name “Golden Door” originates from the Emma Lazarus poem, which adorns the base of the Statue of Liberty and whose final line reads, “I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

“It is a great honor to be accepted into the film festival, especially for animation,” notes Krinsky, a veteran teacher at High Tech.

(from left to right: Mercy Urena and Cenera Davis)

High Tech Students Attend American Chemical Society Poster Session at Seton Hall

(September 17, 2018--South Orange, NJ) Students from High Tech High School attended the North Jersey Section of The American Chemical Society Poster Session at Seton Hall University, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School.

The students, Chenglian Long of Kearny, Bayonne resident Tatyana Lazareva, Andrea de Leon of Jersey City, Secaucus resident Carina Garcia, and Veeraj Shah of North Bergen, presented the results of their research projects and competed against over 100 other high school students from all over Northern New Jersey.

Long and Lazareva, both Project SEED 1 students, conducted research at Stevens Institute of Technology this past summer under the mentorship of Dr. Woo Lee and Dr. Symon Podkolzin. Each student received $2,500 from the American Chemical Society.
Long’s project, “Developing a Cell Retaining Device Supporting the Assay of Multiple Myeloma cells,” and Shah’s “Determining the Optimal Fibrous Scaffold for the Formation of a Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel with Endothelial Cells” received kudos from attendees. De Leon, Long, and Lazareva earned first place in their categories.

Students presented their projects to three or more judges, who inquired about the project’s purpose, procedure, and duration. Those participants most knowledgeable about their projects scored the highest.

“These students represented High Tech in a great way,” says Dr. Dmitri Lavlinski, who teaches AP Chemistry at High Tech, “and all of the projects reflected great devotion and a good level of presentation skills.”

(from left to right: Veeraj Shah, unidentified student, Andrea de Leon, Chengliang Long, Tatyana Lazareva, Carina Garcia)

County Prep's Rozana Deryas Earns Gold Medals at 2018 Special Olympics USA Games

Congratulations from the County Prep Community to our very own Rozana Deryas are on her recent Gold medal wins in three Swimming events at the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games. For more information about her wonderful accomplishment, please see the following article on NJ.com:


https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018/07/swimmer_from_jersey_city_places_gold.html