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Ridgewood NJ, get ready for an exciting day of discovery and hands-on learning at Super Science Saturday 2025—the premier science event in Northern New Jersey! Known as the Greatest Science Extravaganza in Northern New Jersey, this highly anticipated event is back in-person at Ridgewood High School, bringing together professional presenters, student projects, and thrilling science demonstrations for all ages.
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Allendale NJ, Brooklyn Robot Foundry – the vibrant and inclusive brand dedicated to prioritizing diversity and empowerment for children of all backgrounds and communities through STEAM Education, has announced its newest franchise partners, bringing the brand to New Jersey for the first time.
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Ridgewood NJ, Super Science Saturday, hailed as the “Greatest Science Extravaganza in Northern New Jersey,” brings fun and excitement to science through professional presenters and student projects. As a joint project of the Ridgewood Board of Education and the Super Science Saturday Volunteer Committee, we aim to bring all science lovers together for a days of fun and learning for all ages.
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School AP Environmental Science students tested their own vehicles for carbon dioxide and air particulate matter emissions by using filter paper and bromothymol blue indicator solution. Although they found that many factors contribute to the end results, they found that newer technologies and modern emissions regulations have helped newer cars emit less carbon than older cars.
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Ridgewood NJ, get ready for Super Science Saturday!!!March 4th, 2023, 9:00am-1:30pm at Ridgewood High School. Admission is Free! Ridgewood students —Share your science project for 15 mins. and then explore the hands-on exhibits all day long. Meet more than 50 community organizations and hundreds of students also excited about science.
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Englewood Cliffs NJ, Englewood Cliffs NJ, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) and environmental education while giving students the opportunity to interact with robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies.
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Ridgewood NJ, 42% of 2022 graduating seniors nationally who took the ACT met ZERO of the four college readiness benchmarks ( English, reading, science and math). Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year’s high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.
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Continue reading Seven Ridgewood High School Teams Enter 2022 NJ STEAM Tank Competition
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Trenton NJ, just days after Governor Phil Murphy compared those who choose not to get the COVID vaccination to drunk drivers, Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth) called for the Murphy administration to stop the scare tactics with their continued use of inaccurate, mysterious covid model predictions.
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Ridgewood NJ, Seven teams from the RHS Applied Engineering Club recently competed in the finals of the 2021 Virtual STEAM Tank Challenge sponsored by the New Jersey School Boards Association and the U.S. Army. At the Virtual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, October 27, all seven teams were recognized for outstanding achievement with Solar Aqua Tech winning first place and a $2,500 prize in this prestigious competition.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Aqua Conservation Services Team of the RHS Applied Engineering Club took third place in the Thomas Edison Pitch Contest with their invention, Hydrosave, a faucet attachment to monitor and reduce water usage.
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Ridgewood NJ, a $635,000 alumni gift, the largest in the Ridgewood School district’s history was announced by the Board of the Education at Monday’s meeting.
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Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood High School InvenTeam is one of only 13 teams nationwide to be awarded a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant to create their Solar Aqua Tech (SAT) water bottle, a reusable, self-sanitizing water bottle. In June, InvenTeams will present, showcase, and celebrate working prototypes of their inventions at the Lemelson-MIT EurekaFest.
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Ridgewood NJ, according to the US Census Bureau the COVID-19 pandemic caused a record job losses and transformed the nation’s employment landscape but recently released historical data tables put the magnitude of the economic disruption in clear context.
To get some prospective in 2017, for example, roughly 30 million adults experienced either an end of employment or a reduction in work hours, including both involuntary and voluntary job terminations. But only about 3.8 million collected Unemployment Insurance (UI), which is contingent on involuntary job termination, according to the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
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