Rutherford High School

Rutherford High School
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Rutherford, NJ 07070
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RHS Academic Decathlon Takes 2nd Place in Regionals with 77 Individual Awards!

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The Rutherford High School Academic Decathlon took 2nd place overall in the Regional Competition, garnering a whopping 77 individual awards! The team will now move on to states.  The State Championship is on Feb. 29th.

Some highlights:
Tierra Sherlock: 10 for 10, with an award in each category, including Gold in Speech Christina Scanlon: 8 out of 10, with Gold in Music and Art Matt Peeples: 8 out of 10, w/ Gold in Literature and Science, second highest scorer in his category. Kara Brennan: 7 out of 10, w/ Gold in Art & History, second highest scorer in her … [Read more...] about RHS Academic Decathlon Takes 2nd Place in Regionals with 77 Individual Awards!

RHS Academic Decathlon Takes 2nd Place In Super Quiz

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We are excited to announce that the Rutherford high School Academic Decathlon team won 2nd place in the Super Quiz portion of the Regional Competition. Additional congratulations to Tierra Sherlock for having the highest scoring speech at this weekend's Academic Decathlon competition. Tierra will get to perform her speech at Wednesday night's awards dinner. Adviser Jason Narozny reports that the team felt confident as they competed in 10 different subjects against 11 other teams from the area. The full competition results will be announced Wednesday night at the awards dinner being … [Read more...] about RHS Academic Decathlon Takes 2nd Place In Super Quiz

RHS Student Wins Writing Award Honors

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Congratulations to RHS sophomore Dana Serea! Dana won a Scholastic Gold Key Writing Award for flash fiction for her piece entitled "Beautiful Like Us" and an Honorable Mention for poetry for her piece "Moon Phases" in the New Jersey Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. This is a national competition that runs in local communities around the nation.  In 2019, students submitted nearly 340,000 works of art and writing to the Scholastic Awards.  It truly is an honor to be distinguished from hundreds of thousands of entries. Please click here to read Dana's award winning work: [Read more...] about RHS Student Wins Writing Award Honors

UMS and RHS Art Students’ Work Showcased by The Montclair Art Museum

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UMS art student Erin Park (8th Grade) and RHS art students Dana Serea (10th Grade) and Brandon Fried (12th Grade) have been selected as winners in The Montclair Art Museum's 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. This is a remarkable achievement for any young artist. Since 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized some of America’s most celebrated artists while they were teenagers, including: Andy Warhol, Zac Posen, Idelle Weber, Ken Burns, Luis Jiménez, and Kay WalkingStick. A jury of professional artists, curators, and arts educators spent 30+ hours reviewing 3,570 … [Read more...] about UMS and RHS Art Students’ Work Showcased by The Montclair Art Museum

The Trial of Victor Frankenstein

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As a culminating activity, Mr. Stracco's Honors 400 English Class performed a mock trial for the novel, Frankenstein.  The students put the main character Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the Creature, on trial for obstruction of justice during the trial of Justine Moritz, third-degree murder for the death of William Frankenstein, and first-degree murder for both Henry Clerval and Elizabeth Lavenza. Every student had a role to perform during this activity from Attorneys, to witnesses, to jury members. Mr. DeBari, Assistant Principal, was the judge during the trial. After a three day trial, … [Read more...] about The Trial of Victor Frankenstein

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