Category: High Tech High School

(North Bergen, NJ—September 29, 2016) Brian Mooney, a language arts teacher at High Tech High School, has published his first book on hip hop instruction in the classroom, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Released by Peter Lang International Academic Publishing, Mooney’s new book, Breakbeat Pedagogy: Hip Hop and Spoken Word...Continue reading

(Secaucus, NJ—September 23, 2016) Students majoring in Engineering Tech at High Tech and their instructors received a rare opportunity to tour Goya Foods’ newly retooled manufacturing plant as part of Junior Achievement of New Jersey’s Job Shadow program, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Sergio Gamarra and Harry Peles, who teach...Continue reading

(South Orange, NJ—September 26, 2016) Five High Tech High School students, along with Dr. Dmitri Lavlinski, attended a poster session at Seton Hall University, organized by the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech. These students, members of the American Chemical Society’s Project SEED summer research...Continue reading

(North Bergen, NJ—September 25, 2016) High Tech High School held its annual Open House event, and as usual, it proved a resounding success, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Nearly 3,000 visitors came to the North Hudson Center to mingle with administrators, staff, students, and teachers, who answered their questions and...

(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...Continue reading

(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...Continue reading

(North Bergen, NJ—June 23, 2016) High Tech Science League competitors Shrevas Agarwal and Mingyu Zhao have scored in the top 10% of all New Jersey students for AP Physics I, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. Agarwal, a Secaucus resident, took 1st place in AP Physics I, scoring 296 out of 300 points. ...Continue reading

(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...Continue reading

(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...Continue reading

(North Bergen—June 16, 2016) Bayonne resident Jeremy Lewan, a sophomore at High Tech, wrote a letter to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker during his history class and, to his great surprise, he received a reply letter from Pritzker herself, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High Tech High School. In Louis Minervini’s history class, Lewan and...Continue reading