COUNTY PREP HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
High Tech freshmen Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day
(North Bergen, NJ—April 27, 2017) Freshmen in Joan Marie Bellotti’s World Literature classes celebrated Poem in Your Pocket Day, in which students constructed pockets and enclosed poems in each pocket, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Poem in Your Pocket Day, originally initiated in 2002 by the Office of the New...
County Prep Freshman’s Boy Scout Project Honors Veterans
County Prep Freshman Matt Piscopo is currently working on a service project towards earning a merit badge for his Eagle Scout Award. He is honoring veterans from his hometown of Bayonne with a “Hall of Heroes,” made up of their photographs, in a display at City Hall.For more information please visit: http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/27393483/article-Call-All-Vets–Aspiring-Eagle-Scout-and-mayor-collaborate-for-veteran-memorial-at-City-Hall-
County Prep Inducts Seniors into the National Honor Society
On April 26th, 2017 County Prep Inducted the following seniors into the National Honor Society: Anjela Maravilla, Genna Post, Patrick Gabriel, Nicole DeAssis, Marian Hanna, Raymundo Hernandez, Patricia Ramirez, Sarah Salama, Umradha Shievkumar, Karina Sanchez, Karina Pereira,Xuan Pham, Dana Suthammanont, Juliana Yeung, Simran Dutta, Fatima Munawar, Snehal Patel, Joseph Mamaril, Michelle Nunez,Karolina Minkiewicz, Vanessa Chicas, Felicity Agustin, Kush Agrawal, Emily Jaramillo and Nikolina Krzymanska....
Awards for County Prep Theatre Arts Students
County Prep Theatre Arts News County Prep’s Matthew Riccardi won the Judge’s Award for his monologue from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet County Prep’s Theatre Arts’ production of Ondine has received four Foxy Final Nominations for Montclair State University Theatre Night Awards! On March 9th, at the Teen Arts Alliance competition at New Jersey City University,...
HCSTF Sponsors Winning Workshop for County Prep Dancers
March 10, 2017 (Jersey City, N.J.) – The County Prep Dance Program, led by Ms. Heather Warfel-Sandler, recently won Top Honors at the Hudson County Teen Arts Festival thanks in part to an HCSTF-sponsored collaboration with percussionist Ravish Momin, announced Silverio A. Vega, Development Coordinator of the HCST Foundation. Senior dancers Mia Stephens, Amanda Abdelaal,...
County Prep’s Karolina Minkiewicz Wins Judges Award at Photography Competition
Photography students from County Prep High School competed in the 2017 Pingry Photography Competition in Basking Ridge, NJ. Over 30 photographs were submitted. All work was displayed at the Photography Show which took place in February 2017. This years Judges Award goes to senior, Karolina Minkiewicz with her photograph “Winter Stroll.” Mr. Patten would like...
College and Career Fair a Success at County Prep High School
County Prep hosted a college and career fair on March 16th 2017. There were many hands that helped to orchestrate this event from administrators, teachers, counselors, and Ms. Galluccio to maintenance and security staff, transportation staff and our Culinary Program. Colleges, universities, as well as the military and apprenticeship programs were in attendance. There were...
County Prep High School Students Attend The Beneath the Sea Marine Careers Program
On Friday March 24th, 2017, 19 County Prep students attended the Beneath the Sea Marine Careers Programs with chaperones Casey DeBaun, Nick LaVolpe and Caroline Ulivella. Students had the unique opportunity to meet many “hall of famers” in the world of diving, try marine career-related interactive activities and speak with representatives from marine career programs...
County Prep World Literature Classes Host Class Poetry Readings
In anticipation of National Poetry Month next month, students in Mrs. Ashe’s World Literature classes wrote their own poems inspired by works of art. These ekphrastic poems were the center of world poetry readings they held on Friday March 24th in their classes. Students read original lyric poems, narratives, and haikus. They are looking forward...
County Prep Students in the Graphic Technology Vocation Win 3rd Place in Annual Contest
Each year, The Arc of New Jersey hosts a Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month outreach event at the State House in Trenton. On Monday, March 6 2017, County Prep students of the Graphic Technology Vocation participated in the annual contest and won 3rd place. The theme of this year’s event and design contest was “Developmental Disabilities Awareness: It Matters...