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Academy Chronicle

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The student news site of Bergen County Academies

Academy Chronicle

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Hollywood's first ever major award show done completely virtual.

The Show Must Go On

Cadee Lee, Assistant Managing Editor November 11, 2020

With Broadway’s recent statement to remain closed until 2021, the Emmy Award ceremony, held completely virtual, and the cancelled concerts of artists around the world, many are starting to wonder...

#Twitter’s_Role_in_the_Year_2020

#Twitter’s_Role_in_the_Year_2020

Michelle Kim, Online Editor November 8, 2020

It is not an understatement to say that the year 2020 is currently a roller coaster—from the collision of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to the upcoming, polarizing presidential...

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...

Meet Stoshii Gemz: BCA's Very Own Up & Coming Artist

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...

Knitting For Life Recognized on News 12 for Donations to Healthcare Workers

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...

This may be the possible future of space travel if AI were effectively taught to be empathetic. Astronauts could receive mental health support on long missions if this were the case.

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...

Empty Promises Cannot Extinguish Fires

Empty Promises Cannot Extinguish Fires

Alex Weber, Managing Editor March 9, 2020

Two years after a drought started to plague Australia, it was announced that the country was experiencing its driest spring ever in October 2019. Simultaneously, Australia’s annual bushfire season officially...

BCA: Beyond the School

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...

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...

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....

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...

‘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...

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