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9 students represented HTHS at the 25th annual Andrushkiw math competition at Seton Hall University on Saturday, November 20th. The team finished 2nd overall (only ONE point behind the first place team) and claimed 2 of the 5 individual awards (Kevin Zhou, 4th and David Wong, 2nd). Congratulations.

Also, The Princeton University Mathematics Competition, PUMaC, was held on the same day. PUMaC is a mathematics competition that takes place at Princeton University and which has now gone international with about 70 teams attending, including at least six from China and one from Bulgaria. HTHS student Eric Schneider's team came in 1st place at the competition, and Eric won the 1st place individual finals award as the top scoring individual in the whole contest. Within the math and math competition community, this is a huge honor and an incredible accomplishment. Way to go Eric !!!

Just when I think its not possible to be more impressive, FOUR students attain perfect SAT scores in the October administration. ARTICLE

How can that be topped? Someone will find a way, I'm sure. Way to go !!!

Mailings went out today, including schedules and locker assignments for the first time. ;)

Contact your local transportation office if there are any questions regarding bussing.

See you soon.

Congrats also to Janie Gu, ANOTHER Davidson Fellow from the Class of 2011.

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What a way to start the year. ; )

Congratulations to James Ting, Class of 2010, for being named a Davidson Fellow.

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Want to see construction pics? Head to the new gallery here and follow along as we move through the stages. Cool stuff !!!

I wanted to take a moment to thank those individuals who put in countless hours over the course of the last two months to put together such a fun-filled and successful evening last Saturday evening. Despite the extreme weather conditions, we were certainly being watched over as we maintained power and even saw the conditions subside somewhat during the travel period.

The generosity of so many of the tournament participants, most of whom aren't even directly connected to our school community, was inspiring. Most of the 50/50 winnings were donated BACK to the PFA. We made a lot of new friends that night and look forward already to the SECOND annual tournament in 2011. I don't know how much was ultimately raised, but being the first event of its kind in my eight years, I have to say it succeeded beyond expectations.

This event would not have been possible without the efforts of the following individuals (hoping I didn't miss anyone):

Bruno & Rachelle Lucarelli
Kathy Woolston
Donna Takash
Bill Wood
Dianne Thompson
Kim Dalton
... and all the dessert contributors

Thank you all for your dedication and commitment to our school, our community, and our STUDENTS !!!

School is closed on Friday, February 26th. An updated calendar will be introduced in the near future, which includes a revision to the end of the 3rd marking period. Have a safe weekend.

Stay safe and warm.

At long last, we have a commitment from the Middletown Board of Health to administer an H1N1 vaccination clinic here at HTHS. The date is set for Friday, February 12th, from 9:30 until 11:00 am.

Students will need to have a signed consent form on file or in hand in order to be eligible. These are the blue forms that were mailed out earlier this year. The consent form is available for download here.

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Finley, our School Nurse.

Congratulations to Moyukh Chatterjee and Oliver Song for achieving Semi-Finalist status in the Intel Science Talent Search !!!

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Congratulations to the 16 HTHS students who participated in the 24th Annual Joseph W. Andrushkiw Mathematics Competition on Saturday, 11/21, at Seton Hall University. Eric Schneider earned a tie for the top individual score in the competition (36 out of 40). The team score was calculated by using the top 3 scores from each school to calculate a team score. High Tech finished in 3rd place - missing 2nd place by 1 point. The scores of James Ting and Kevin Zhou were combined with Eric's score to form the HTHS team score.

The remaining HTHS participants were:

Josh Ma
Jay Cheng
Janie Gu
Channing Huang
Vinay Ayyala
Max Flores
Melody So
Frank Tota
Jacob Buckman
Angelica Chen
Derek Liu
David Wong
David Wu

The Model United Nations club had some great success at the Princeton Model UN Conference this past weekend.

This is a highly respected conference, attended by approximately 1200 students from about 60 schools...

Team Award

Best Small School Delegation - High Tech High School

--Moyukh Chatterjee
--Amrita Mazumdar
--Greg Woolston
--Matthew Warshauer
--Ben Lynch
--Elise Backman
--Robert Hale
--Vinay Panjabi
--Neil Rangwani
--Emily Chen
--Sanjana Salwi
--Dan Takash

Individual Awards

Matthew Warshauer
Best Delegate - Special Committee on Cyber-Terrorism
 
Moyukh Chatterjee
Outstanding Delegate - Red Russia: The Rise of the Bolsheviks
 
Elise Backman
Delegate of Honorable Mention - Terra Nullius: Oil Exploration in the Horn of Africa

Dan Takash & Neil Rangwani
Delegate Commendation - Committee on Disarmament and International Security

Congrats to all !!!

http://www.hths.mcvsd.org/

Congratulations to Channing Huang, Joshua Ma, and a third teammate for earning 2nd place (and a $1,000 prize) in the NYU-Poly Cyber Forensics Challenge.

See here for more details.