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Science Olympiad Wins Regional Competition
Stuyvesant’s Science Olympiad A Team came in first place out of 47 teams at the New York City Division C Regional Competition, which took place at Grover Cleveland High School on Saturday, February 6. Stuyvesant’s A Team placed first in five out of the 19 events they participated in. Stuyvesant’s B Team came in 5th [...]
Fewer Days, Higher Prices
Scheduling issues, budgetary concerns and other logistical problems have led to fewer practice days, an increase in ticket prices and the three SING! tech crews sharing set elements such as platforms. In spite of these changes, all three SING! slates have not expressed concerns regarding the completion of their productions prior to the performances.
Principal Stanley [...]
Robotics and Strive Hold E-Cycling Drive
The Stuyvesant Robotics team and the Students Taking Resolute Initiative to Vindicate the Environment (STRIVE) club are currently holding an electronics recycling drive outside room 209. The drive, which began on Tuesday, February 2 and does not yet have an end date, encourages students and faculty members to drop off their electronic trash into a bin [...]
New Photo Enlargers Purchased for Photography Room
Six new photo enlargers costing 2,000 dollars apiece are being installed over February break in room 338 to replace the two-decade-old machines currently in use. The enlargers were purchased in December and arrived in late January.
Private donations, not school funds, were used to purchase the enhancers. The Alumni Association donated 6,000 dollars and the Parents’ [...]
Pascu Wins Award for Distinguished Math Teachers
Mathematics teacher Oana Pascu received the 2009 Edyth May Sliffe Award for “Distinguished High School Mathematics Teaching” from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in late December 2009. She was nominated by juniors Jeremy Chan and Yichi Zhang, seniors Peter Cha and Shaoxiang Wang and alumni Paul Fisher (‘09) and Benjamin Hirsch (‘09).
Pascu has been at Stuyvesant [...]
Fundraising Efforts for Haiti Still Underway
Members of the Stuyvesant community continue to fundraise money for relief efforts after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. Stuy Skate for Haiti and the Pokémon Fan Club tournament are two upcoming events that Stuyvesant individuals and clubs have organized for the cause.
Social Studies teacher Muriel Olivi will host the [...]
Grant Received for New Computers
Stuyvesant High School received an 80,000 dollar grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) which will go toward purchasing eighty to ninety new Dell computers for the Computer Aided Design (CAD) rooms. The installation of the computers will occur by either the end of spring break or September 2010.
The LMDC was created by then-Governor [...]
New Honors Chemistry Research Class for Sophomores
For the spring term of the 2009-2010 school year, 34 sophomores are taking Honors Chemistry Research, a new class taught by chemistry teacher Samantha Daves that will replace one section of Honors Chemistry. Students enrolled in Honors Chemistry during the fall term had the opportunity to sign up for the class, and all students that [...]
170,000 Dollars Not Taken From Stuyvesant Budget
Less than a month after the Department of Education (DOE) announced a one percent budget cut for schools in early January, Principal Stanley Teitel received notice that the DOE would not, in fact, be cutting the proposed 170,000 dollars from Stuyvesant’s budget.
Despite this windfall, the majority of the reinstated funding will not be added to [...]
Big Sibs Restart Tutoring
The Big Sibs Chairs restarted their freshmen tutoring program on Monday, January 4 at the request of Assistant Principal Pupil Services Eleanor Archie after she informed them that more freshmen failed their classes in the second marking period of the first term than in the previous year. The program pairs up freshmen in need of [...]
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