March 2009 Archives

Thirty seven HTHS students ventured down to Pomona to compete in the 34th annual Jersey Shore Science Fair held at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey this past Saturday. Thirty one of them were recognized with awards for their projects and twenty five earned invitations to compete at Delaware Valley Regional Science Fairs in April.

All of the HTHS entries will be available for review this coming Wednesday evening, March 25th, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at our first ever Research Showcase.

Congratulations to the following individuals:

First Place Awards

Elise Backman (Botany)
Timothy Ng (Chemistry)
Joshua Ma (Computer Science - Upper level fair)
Sidney Buchbinder (Engineering)
Jeffrey Hart (Engineering - Upper level fair)
Janie Gu (Environmental)
Paul Bender (Environmental - Upper level fair)
Joshua Chao (Earth & Space Sciences)
Abhi Desai (Mathematics)
Anca Marinescu (Microbiology)
Paul Jackson (Physics)
Moyukh Chatterjee (Physics - Upper level fair)

Second Place Awards

Jane Threefoot (Botany)
Emily Fineberg (Behavioral and Social Science)
Ami Wang (Chemistry - Upper level fair)
John Kelly (Computer Science)
Brittany Ko (Engineering)
Amrita Mazumdar (Engineering - Upper level fair)
Katharine Close (Medicine & Health - Upper level fair)
Jay Cheng (Physics)
Connor Janover (Physics - Upper level fair)

Third Place Awards

Channing Huang (Botany)
Phillip Ellsworth (Computer Science)
Calvin Chang (Physics)
Matthew Warshauer (Medicine & Health - Upper level fair)

Honorable Mention Awards

Gregory Canal (Botany)
James Ting (Botany)
Courtney Chan (Behavioral and Social Science)
Kelsey Noll (Behavioral and Social Science - Upper level fair)
Manali Tijoriwala (Engineering)
Janet Qian (Environmental)

Special Awards

Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department
(Borders Gift Cards to projects of greatest distinction in the Upper level divisions)

Joshua Ma (Computer Science - Upper level fair)
Jeffrey Hart (Engineering - Upper level fair)
Paul Bender (Environmental - Upper level fair)
Moyukh Chatterjee (Physics - Upper level fair)

IEEE - Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers

Sidney Buchbinder (Engineering)

The Paul Saraduke, Jr. Award
(Top Physics Project)

Moyukh Chatterjee (Physics - Upper level fair)

NJ Water Environment Association (NJWEA) and the State Chapter of the Water Environment Federation (WEF)
($500.00 and invitation to NJWEA Annual Conference - entry into NJ US Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition)

Paul Bender (Environmental - Upper level fair)

American Chemical Society
(Top Chemistry Project - Intermediate fair level)

Timothy Ng (Chemistry)

Many thanks to those of you who took the time to submit letters of recommendation for Teacher of the Year honors. I am pleased to announce that the recipient for the 2008-09 school year is ...

Mr. Jonathan Olsen

Congratulations Mr. Olsen. Thank you for all you do and for all that you mean to the High Tech community.

Wednesday, March 25th, 7:00 - 9:00 pm at HTHS

Please consider marking your calendars for our first ever research showcase evening. We value the opportunity to allow parents and students to witness some of the recent award winning student research projects that have come out of HTHS. We're featuring those projects that will compete at Jersey Shore Science Fair, those that represented the State of New Jersey at the American Junior Academy of Science meeting in Chicago this past February, and our senior Intel & Siemens competition entries from the fall semester.

In addition, our keynote speaker for the evening will be a member of the HTHS Class of 2001, Princeton doctoral candidate, Ms. Andréa Vasconcellos-Granstedt who has been asked to speak on "What I've been up to since sophomore research." :-) Knowing Andréa, it should be a most interesting summary.

We look forward to seeing many of you that evening.