Latin Program

The Ridgewood High School Latin program recently returned victorious from the New Jersey Junior Classical League state convention! The students collectively earned 54 awards of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in state level competition in a variety of fields.

French 5 Honors

Students in Mme Polk’s French 5H class recently culminated their study of la gastronomie française by participating in the annual French cheese tasting! Seven different cheeses, along with grapes and French baguette, were sampled. With between 250 to 1,000 different kinds of cheeses in France (number varies depending on the source), it’s hard to pick just a few. The students sampled Brie, Camembert, Port Salut, Comté, Gruyère, Chèvre, and Roquefort. The favorites among the group were Brie, Gruyère and Comté while the least favorite (not too surprisingly) was the Roquefort. 

Spanish Classes

Applied Engineering Club

NJSTEAM Tank Challenge had 520 teams participating this year; RHS Teams FireGone, Estrogenerators, and GamaWatch completed year-round competitions and were among the 15 high school finalists. 

Team Estrogenerators won 2nd place with a $1500 prize; Team FireGone won 3rd place with a $1000 prize, and Team GamaWatch won recognitions in Innovative Technology, Eco-wear, Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Art, and Diversity categories.

Team Estrogenerators also won 3rd place with a 3D printer prize at Thomas Edison Pitch Contest. 

Estrogenerators - 11th Carys Gallo, Brooke Ward, Reina Trivedi, Eliana Gluck

Team FireGone - 12th Alexander Mueller, Michael Ip, Zahir Syed, Praket Nigam

GamaWatch – 12th Andrew Chang, 9th Sophia Hsiao, 10th Madison Kim, Rubi-Lynn Morales

RHS-TV

Please enjoy the most recent news show produced by RHS-TV.

RHS Recording Studio

The RHS TV Club and RHS Recording Studio are excited to release the FIFTH episode of our new series, In the Studio, featuring Mason Wu. Mason Wu is a senior at RHS in the Music Production classes and a part of the RHS Recording Studio. As a famous producer, he is best known for co-producing Polo G’s hit “No Return” featuring The Kid LAROI and Lil Durk off the Chicago rapper’s third studio album, Hall of Fame. He has also notably worked with Roddy Ricch (with a song performed on the Grammys!), Hotboii, Yeat, Dro Kenji, TyFontaine, and Lil Gotit, among others. He is signed to Internet Money Records under A&R and manager Josh Hall. 

Based off of the popular "Tiny Desk Concert" series by NPR, the goal of the In the Studio series is to feature the variety of musicians and ensembles at Ridgewood HS in all genres of music. Both the TV Club and Recording Studio Club worked behind the scenes to produce this show and are excited to share it with the RHS community. The new television equipment, purchased through the Duffield STEAM Initiative, was utilized during the shoot! New camera angles, HD video and seamless communication between audio and video! 

Celebrating our newest state champions!

Friends of Music Teacher Appreciation Luncheon

The Ridgewood Friends of Music held its annual Teacher Appreciation Lunch on June 8th.  The organization, which supports the music programs and teachers in our public schools, also gave out three scholarships to graduating seniors who will continue to study music in college.  For more information about Friends, and especially their upcoming Song Writing Contest, please visit www.ridgewoodfriendsofmusic.org.  The students receiving scholarships were Markus Ryen, Raymond Ocasio &  Noah Lee.

• June 19th: Juneteenth (Schools Closed)

• June 20th and June 21st: RHS Final Exams 

• June 20th and 21st: Graduation Rehearsal for Seniors

• June 22nd: RHS Graduation, 5:00pm 

• June 23rd: SUMMER VACATION BEGINS!