COUNTY PREP HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
Success for County Prep Interact Club’s Clothing and Toy Drive
The County Prep Interact Club has completed their Infant and Children’s Clothing and Toy Drive. Juniors Aleksandra Cison and Kayla Feathers, along with several members of the Interact Club, are happy to announce that they collected almost 500 pieces of clothing and toys which will be donated to local non-profit organizations for people in need. ...
County Prep Student Council Holds Video Game Tournament
On May 7th, the student council held the second part of their first Super Smash Bros. Tournament, a game about Nintendo’s best characters coming together to fight showing who the best character really is. The event lasted from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Competitors from all grade levels came to prove that they were the...
County Prep Student wins “Honorable Mention” in 32nd Annual Orlando Saa Foreign Languages Poetry Recitation Contest
The County Prep World Language Department is proud to announce that County Prep students excelled once more at the 32nd Annual Orlando Saa Foreign Languages Poetry Recitation Contest held at William Paterson University on May 14th of this year. One of our students, Jamie Lee Roberson, won the “Honorable Mention” award at the Spanish Beginner...
15 County Prep Students Recognized as Medal Winners at the SkillsUSA New Jersey State Championships
(Somerset, NJ- May 2, 2015) Fifteen students from County Prep won medals at the SkillsUSA New Jersey State Championships at the Garden State Exhibition Center. The students won two gold medals, eight silver medals, five bronze medals in contests ranging from Medical Math to Photography to Internetworking. Junior Chengru Long, a resident of Kearny, won...
County Prep Students Win 1st & 2nd Place in the 10th Congressional District Art Competition
This year the 10th Congressional District Art Competition was held at the Newark Museum. Two County Prep High School students were recognized for their beautiful photography with top awards. Senior Jessica D’Onofrio won first place in the photography portion with her photograph “Home” and Senior Olesya Hreb won second place with her photograph “Jasmine.” Congratulations...
County Prep Theatre Arts Students Alexia Velazquez and Joshua Dunn Receive Full Scholarships to Circle in the Square Theatre School
Circle in the Square Theatre School, the only accredited training conservatory associated with a Broadway theatre in NYC, awarded County Prep Juniors Alexia Velazquez and Joshua Dunn full scholarships for their 7-week intensive Summer Workshop in Musical Theatre. The scholarship covers tuition, transportation and lunch stipend for the entire program. The musical theatre workshop consists...
County Prep Students Receive Awards at Hudson County Teen Arts Alliance
This year’s Hudson County Teen Arts Alliance was held at the Bayonne Public Library from May 5th until the 11th. County Prep High School received 5 Judges Awards and 1 Top Honors Award. Top Honors were awarded to Senior Olesya Hreb for her “Art Requires Concentration” photograph. This is the third year in a row Olesya...
County Prep Students Travel to Italy, France and Spain
County Prep Students Travel to Italy, France and Spain Over Spring Break, under the guidance of Mrs. Karen Horan, County Prep students embarked on an educational field experience in Europe accompanied by chaperones Ms. Stacie Wein, Mrs. Alicia Abraham, Ms. Bianca Torres, Mr. Jason Carey and Mr. Thurman Carey. In the past the...
County Prep Student’s Account of 2015 European Trip
Italy, France and Spain 2015 by Giovanni Privitera This year the trip we went on and the things we saw were amazing. We started our adventure off in Italy. Italy truly is a beautiful place. Even flying in you could just see all the mountains and plains, making a great scenery. In Italy, we went...
Two County Prep Dance Students to Perform at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Ms. Heather Warfel Sandler, Instructor of Dance at County Prep, is thrilled to announce that two County Prep dance majors will have the honor of performing at the renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Fisher Theater this weekend. Tamir Rios and Tamijah Southerland are both members of County Prep’s 407 Dance Company, and are second...