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.
RHS Academic Decathlon Takes 2nd Place In Super Quiz
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
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
The Trial of Victor Frankenstein
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
RHS is Victorious in Annual Spelling Bee
Rutherford High School was once again victorious in the annual Spelling Bee against Becton Regional High School. Over the three-hour competition held on Wednesday, November 27th, students in the National Honor Society dazzled the audience with their spellings of such difficult words as: echelon, surreptitious, genealogical, velociraptor, machination, epicurean, gubernatorial, inquietude, and anticoagulant. Congratulations to the students in both schools who participated. The overall winning student was also from RHS. Congratulations to Rian Chowdhury! … [Read more...] about RHS is Victorious in Annual Spelling Bee