October 14, 2022

In the Classroom

Pictured: Sergi Legashvili, Nolan Strauss, Sophia Absey, Carina D'Angelo, Tara Conn, Isabella Jordan

Science

Mrs. Walters' Forensic Classes set up their own crime scenes and photographed them in class this week.

Freshman Focus

The Freshman Focus classes are getting into the Halloween spirit with some team building activities like pumpkin carving.

Pictured: Isaac Lee, Claire Marron, Emman Piotrowski, Kieran Burke, and James Hernandez

Physics

Inspired by Galileo, Apollo 15 astronauts on the moon, and scientists at NASA world's largest vacuum chamber, physics students, using balls of a similar-sized but different mass (a light Mets ball and a-G ball with a built-in sensitive timer), studied the beauty of free fall motion from the football bleachers.

Around the Building

RHS is proud to announce the names of the following four students who were named National Merit Scholarship Competition Semifinalists. Out of the approximately 1.5 million students who took the PSAT exam last year, nearly 16,000 semifinalists were named nationally. Congratulations!

RHS Semifinalists:

Chloe Cho (not pictured)

Ethan Holden

Kate Minn

Lucas Wang

Club Happenings

The Applied Engineering Club had a pizza party to celebrate the 2021-2022 accomplishments at the NJSTEAM Tank Challenge and form new teams (12 so far) to invent solutions with technology for helping others.

Pictured: Kevin Park (senior), Zakariya Benmoussa (junior), Nicholas Peruyero (junior), (and Hailey Haglid of RHS’22, not in picture)

I.C.E. team placed first, winning the $2500 prize for the invention of their Induced Cooling Embrace blanket to help reduce blood loss in trauma patients.

Pictured: Devyn Siversen (junior)

Chempost team received certificates of accomplishment for the invention of their methane-defusing compost bin. Not in the picture are Elise D’Alonzo (senior), Mason Fraiman (junior), Trevor Phillips (sophomore), and Aaron Shefter (sophomore).

Pictured: seniors Zahir Syed, Alexander Mueller, Michael Ip, Juliana Frattini, and Praket Nigam.

FireGone team received certificates of accomplishment for the invention of a wildfire assessor.

Project Interact

Project Interact members were involved in facilitating kid’s games at the Pediatric Cancer Food Truck event at Veteran's Field on October 9th !

Members also helped with chalk activities at the kids’ table and assembled utensil kits for Access for All.

Pictured: Sophia Iorii (10), Mahsa Nameni (10), Merve Tutar (10), Victoria Hatcher (11) , Adriana Nagy (10), Isabella Katsaros (10), Katherine Dort (11), Amanda Schnure (11), Anna Beiersdorf (12), and Cagla Tutar (12)

Maroon Athletics

Click here for the Maroon Athletics Calendar. Get detailed schedules and last-minute changes.

Ridgewood Crew Back on the Regatta Circuit

The Ridgewood Crew team had a great weekend on the Passaic, participating in the Head of the Passaic River Regatta (HOPR). Thirty four teams participated, with teams ranging from high school to masters. Ridgewood Crew participated with 26 entries of Ridgewood High School athletes.

Following are the medal results from the HOPR:

Men's HS Varsity 4x: 2nd Place (T. Clark, S. Boogaert, N. Harris, M. Manevich)

Men's HS JV 4x: 2nd Place (M. Lyakerman, M. Kirchhoff-Lajonchere, C. Sullivan, H. Rivera)

Women's HS 1x: 3rd Place (A. Mevissen)

Men's HS 1x: 3rd Place (N. Harris)

Women's HS Varsity 4x: 2nd Place (O. Kim, C. McDonough, E. Monhanram, A. Mevissen)

Women's HS Varsity 2x: 3rd Place (O. Kim, S. Kliesch)

Men's HS Varsity 2x: 2nd Place (T. Clark, S. Boogaert)

Men's HS Novice 4x: 2nd Place (W. Nasr, S. Scharfenberg, M. Moomjy, U. Han)

Announcements

lshsa october social 2022-enews.pdf

Clue flyer.pdf

SATACT Sense_2022.pdf

HWC_2022.pdf

Oktoberfest_Van Neste_School.pdf

2022 Ridgewood SSA Thanksgiving Food drive flier.docx

RHC.pdf

NHS TUTORING POSTER.pdf

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS

and INTERNSHIP!

Autumn 2022

The Ridgewood Arts Foundation (RAF) is calling for all middle school, high school and college students, who are involved in fine or performing arts, and adult artists and/or arts organizations with a connection to Ridgewood, to apply.