Birthdays and the Coronavirus Quarantine
Meghana Veldhuis
August 13, 2020
Time has not stopped and birthdays have kept coming despite the obvious changes that have arrived at BCA with the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to required social-distancing, birthday celebrations aren’t as conventional as they have been in the past. However, people have still found ways to celebrate their...
Meet Stoshii Gemz: BCA’s Very Own Up & Coming Artist
Pooja Rayapaneni and Matt Suescun, Writers
May 18, 2020
The Academy Chronicle recently sat down in an online interview with Stoshii Gemz. Known as simply “Stosh” to his classmates, the BCA student is currently a senior in the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology who has also pursued a music career during his time at BCA. His newes...
Knitting For Life Recognized on News 12 for Donations to Healthcare Workers
Cadee Lee
May 8, 2020
On April 20th, BCA students Francesca Osborn, Hannah Ferrer, Rachel Mina, and Olivia Culleton were aired on News 12 for their efforts to thank doctors and nurses who are fighting COVID-19 through Knitting For Life, a non profit organization. They received recognition for donating knitted materials ...
2020: Is this the Year of Empathetic Artificial Intelligence?
Michelle Kim, General Editor
April 20, 2020
At a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956, the word “artificial intelligence” was first uttered. Now, nearly seventy years later, artificial intelligence (AI) is at the cusp of becoming emotionally intelligent with the capability to empathize with astronauts on Mars. Artificial intelligenc...
BCA: Beyond the School
Amelia Okulewicz, Writer
February 28, 2020
Since the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, students, Lindsey Polevoy, Reese Conway, and Tiffany Kim have been avidly working on the “Community Service 2020” contest for SkillsUSA called Feed NJ BCA. Thus far, Feed NJ BCA has been manifested in a variety of smaller projects at BCA, such as...
BCA SkillsUSA’s American Spirit Team Leads Intro to Culinary Class at Annual BCA Flash Event
Bryant Kye
February 25, 2020
On Saturday, January 25, 2020, the Bergen County Academies held its annual BCA Flash event, teaching middle school students in Bergen County a variety of courses ranging from Robotics to Beginner’s Bookbinding. This year, the Bergen County Academies SkillsUSA Chapter partnered with the Academy...
The Academy Imposters
Meghana Veldhuis
February 25, 2020
BCA has a reputation as a top school filled with bright students and encouraging teachers; any hallway boasts awards, creations, and photos of smiling scholars whose accomplishments are clear. It is no small feat to be accepted at the end of the multi-step application process, and it would be...
The Bullet Journal: Lists, Art, and Everything In Between
Yilin Xie
February 24, 2020
Bullet Journaling is among the many methods of much-needed organisation and time-management strategies employed by BCA students. The Bullet Journal—also affectionately known as BuJo—was created by Ryder Carroll with the intention of being a minimal, efficient, and methodical organisation s...
‘Playing Hooky’ A Clothing Brand Started by BCA Teens for Teens
February 11, 2020
In the summer of 2019 three like minded BCA students decided to put their heads together and develop a clothing brand that reciprocated their passion for experimental fashion along with their own unique style. Juniors, Gavin Zhao, Natalie Painter and Priya Aggarwall, all from different academies, agreed...
Gender-Bending Fashion in the 21st Century
January 28, 2020
The end of a year often signals a time of reflection—in 2019, there were protests regarding climate change, proposed legislation on gun control, and more diverse representation in the film industry. In addition to all these significant societal strides, there was the challenging of gender norms within...
How Much is Higher Education Worth?
Michelle Kim
December 23, 2019
“It tends to be ingrained from a very young age that we have to go to college and we have to go into a good school to get anywhere in life, and that a college degree is all that matters,” says one anonymous BCA student. “We’re told this by our parents and teachers, and pretty much every adult a...
BCA Students on Hackathons
Remington Kim, Writer
December 16, 2019
Competitions where programmers, engineers, and builders come together to create a real working software or hardware program all in the span of 24 hours have become increasingly popular in recent years. These events, known as hackathons, take place all over the world every weekend at high schools, colleges, and community centers. Competitors can build any product they wish, and c...
