hackBCA: Back and Better Than Ever
Norah Gordon
June 24, 2015
Filed under Halloween Assembly-Monday, October 31, School, Science & Technology
High school programmers from both BCA and across the country flocked to BCA recently for hackBCA II, our school’s own twenty-four hour hackathon. Alongside the young hackers were representatives from sponsors like Intel, Make School, and Rutgers, who aided them along the way. Some of the winning projects incl...
Experience at HESCHMUN
Alex Whang
June 24, 2015
Filed under Halloween Assembly-Monday, October 31, School
On Sunday, May 17th, the Bergen County Academies Model UN team attended a debate at The Heschel School in Manhattan, New York. In HeschMUN, delegates from schools all across the tri-state area were invited to debate Middle Eastern issues and politics, a tradition practiced specifically by HeschMUN....
Club MEDs Bodies Exhibit
Rachael Han
June 24, 2015
Filed under Halloween Assembly-Monday, October 31, School, Science & Technology
It is exactly 9:04 AM and students begin to board the school bus for the Bodies Exhibit field trip, hosted by Club MEDS, on May 26th. Specifically, these students are heading to the Body Worlds: Pulse at Discovery Times Square. The field trip was organized by the Club MEDS members: Stacey Chung, Alex ...
Teen Arts Festival
Alex Schwartz
June 24, 2015
Filed under Arts, Halloween Assembly-Monday, October 31, School
On Friday, May 29th, about 3,500 students from all over Bergen County arrived at Bergen Community College to take part in Teen Arts, an arts festival full of different kinds of exhibitions, demonstrations, and classes covering creative writing, visual art, performance, dance, and music. Teens from...
A Working Summer
Simona Vigodner
June 24, 2015
Summer. The word evokes an image of the beach, a nice drink by the pool, or an exhilarating trip to Europe, all away from the hassle of tests and schoolwork. Not so fast. BCA students are in no state of mind to forego the summer months without a hint of effort. Whether it be an internship, job, or vol...
Journey to JProm
Meena Raman
June 10, 2015
Filed under Halloween Assembly-Monday, October 31, School
After countless fundraisers, dozens of meetings, and nine months of planning, Junior Prom finally came together on May 8th, 2015, at Old Tappan Manor. Led by the Junior Class Council and a specially-created Prom Planning Committee, preparations began early in the school year, when the date and location ...
Meet the Teachers: Ms. Kouefati
Suzan Kim
June 10, 2015
Where did you grow up? I grew up in Passaic County and attended Montclair State University. As a child, did you have a nickname? Yes. My family and some friends call me DJ. The J stands for my middle name, which is Janina. Even to this day, I respond to my nickname. Where did you attend ...
Netflix More Popular than Cable Television at BCA
Simona Vigodner
June 10, 2015
Filed under Arts, Features, School
Headphones out, laptop screens on. Walking down the hallway of BCA, there is always some kind of online activity. Some students are doing homework; others are entertaining themselves, most often by watching movies or television shows. In today’s day and age, technology has made it easier to get a...
ABF Takes on GoGo SqueeZ Marketing Challenge
Simona Vigodner
June 3, 2015
Filed under Features, Halloween Assembly-Monday, October 31, School
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Pinke adjusted the camera to face the business freshman class for a Skype session with GoGo squeeZ Innovative Marketing team member, Dennis Katsnelson. Katsnelson, a 2010 BCA alumnae, appeared on the screen, ready to hear what BCA students had to present. One by one...
Join the ‘FAAM’
Elise High
June 3, 2015
Filed under Halloween Assembly-Monday, October 31, School
The beginning of this school year brought with it, not only hopes of higher GPAs and more high honor role certificates, but also an influx of clubs. Bergen County Academies currently hosts meetings for over sixty morning clubs and thirty Wednesday clubs that address everything from fun...
Meet the Teachers: Mr. Zhang
Suzan Kim
May 20, 2015
Filed under School
Mr. Zhang has served as a Bergen County Academy student, athlete, coach, teacher, and advisor. As a core part of the BCA community, he recently shared information about his childhood-his life before BCA-and his his experiences at BCA-as a student and teacher-with the Academy Chronicle. ...
Sleep and BCA: A Match Made in Heaven?
Simona Vigodner
May 13, 2015
The alarm clock rings; even the sun is still asleep. We turn over and groan in agony as our fingers fumble for the snooze button. Almost every BCA student knows that feeling: the need for just a few more minutes of sleep. Spring is upon us, and with snow days and school breaks now out of th...