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Weehawken high school was recently recognized with three honors from the AP program first the Weehawken Township School District was recently selected by the College Board to implement AP Capstone  an Innovative high school diploma program that allows students develop the skills that matter most for their future College Success research collaboration and communication the AP caps program includes a two-course sequence AP seminar and AP research Weehawken High School will start the AP Capstone Pro in the fall of 2016 and now to Logan with the second honor and recognition is that Weehawken has been named to the AP District honor roll for the 2014-2015 school year the honor roll is a list of 425 across the u.s. and Canada being honored for increasing access to AP courses latest maintaining fishing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams which of these goals indicates that these districts are successful identifying motivated academically prepare students are likely to benefit from rigorous AP course work  not tell me I was 3rd recognition the third Recreation was that we all can has been named to the gasket carpeting opportunity honor roll what is 15 Gaston Carpenter Honor Roll is a list of 130 districts across the us that are being recognized for creating opportunities for tradition unprepared students tricks on the honor roll demonstrated significant and constant growth in the number of one representative in low-income students stopped taking college-level courses and applying to the four or more colleges here's some footage from day of the announcement which means were wondering 450 schools in the entire country who maintain the level of performance that recognition with the stores are free at A5 Maple Springs museums girls received another one board and being named to the gas tank African opportunity on a wall for the number of students who scored 1550 on the PSAT diverse background to take advantage windows in Springfield and then on top of that we just found out this week after submitting an application that we were selected to the program AP Capstone program is a program distinction that allows students going to be taken for AP courses to take to special horses that the colleges look at and to do students are most prepared for college and was sought after by the University 400-450 Super 8 150 on 102 the AP Capstone handball can the state about 300 or wait till Terry for seniors in The Maze Runner for we talking Christopher those pizza rolls remind me forming a program and we had to make a commitment to keep the program going over to access to students and teachers train to do the caption because we've done really well and we committed to joining anything better going forward to reverse election so can you guys send out applications what was the single time it was shortly after I became superintendent February of the scotch and submitted it and workshop in the crowd was a lot that one two beforehand now I'm sober commemorated towards or past performance and then the Capstone for things to calm because the caption start September 1st 2016 thank you so much play something how do you feel about this accomplishment of Weehawken high school it's a tremendous of consulates it's all the students behind me are participating in placement courses in the shows with a great school system we have that it's not only the high school it starts in the grammar schools and goes to the high school and it's just another rich dark grape Festival system and compliments to the board of education to the to the the whole all the various faculty that we've had to bring these two to the high school and give them at this great honor be a tremendous asset when our students apply for college especially high level colleges do this kind of work time 12 State Jessica Community many students great family great administrators the school board in the Town Council work over clothes together and she cuts another Gene weather sub and whether it's the plays whether it's all the other academic Awards weekend it's a great school system they have a small school system and and we could do Straight students well I feel very proud that words that we have found that the honor roll that we've been placed on it's a great tribute to the car turn up the factory in Staffing one of Education in on the first time that you guys are so bad skip ask yes this is the first time I believe the honor rolls going to force this is at 6 year and I leave Gaston capital fortunity is just a magnificent program and we're glad to be part of it okay what's that mean the next two of our faculty members training in this and they're going to come back and be able to work the the program so that more children can be represented by the AP cap how can you tell us about the students going to be trying to do what exactly activity so Weatherby Athletics theatrics musically and of course academic and that's why we so then there very well-rounded students and we have more of these represent  so how do you feel today feels good feels good that we're getting represent in and we're getting acknowledged for our hard work and all the dedication that goes into how many courses does it is a lot of work it's a lot of homework and it's it's a different level so it's good that we're getting a couch so what kind of homework do you guys time for PCP program depends on which subject you're taking but the homework is rigorous they make sure that you really coursework and understand what you're doing so that come the AP test you really feel prepared and feel comfortable so you have done that yes are you well thank you so much how do you feel today well AP program is very rigorous but I'm very happy because we get to learn more things then as if like a regular classical more depth and you definitely get educated on new things every single day very proud this is a great school and a great academic achievement well thank you so much and now to Jay's with today's trivia question  today's trivia which u.s. president signed Father's Day in Salah a Abraham Lincoln B Lyndon B Johnson C Grover when are The Rock Obama will be back later in the show with the Impala with the computer if avocado then doesn't run Mac OS X or Windows are they operating system then what could it possibly run the answer is Chrome OS Weehawken high school has juice project for everything for every faculty in the student in the Weehawken what is a Chromebook you ask well this is Chromebook are designed to run all of the Google Google Maps via the Chrome browser dark sheets YouTube and everything else you need for school normally you will need an internet connection to next to the Google apps Wayfair you're using Chromebooks it save your work and then we'll blow into your Google account next time you have an internet connection the obvious benefits of everything being say on the web is that your access to from any computer place if your Chromebook every bites the. You won't have to worry about losing how's your apps documents and settings I'm out tourist ad for today's joke  what is it called when Batman Church Christian Bale and now to Camille with with this year spring Musical  Mr spring musical was a little we sat down with Weehawken High School Theatre instructor Miss McHugh and the Little Mermaid herself Ali Tierney to talk about this year play  how being the lead like how did being a lead in the play  differ from like all the other roles you had well all your rules I had the most amount of lines that has like five lines but being the lead I had was basically in every single scene so I had a lot more to memorize and it was not just practicing at practice and that's it I had to practice on my own time as well so it's a lot more on how much more work to do you think you put in this year winter break was right after that after we got our scripts we had winter break and I was studying my life all throw winter break how was it having your sister in real life play your sister in the play now let's play my older sister in the show what's my younger sister parents say when you told them you were the lead when I started screaming and I was running and then my dad got mad at me cuz it was quite excited though really happy for me that I got the part with the answer to a trivia question the answer is the Lyndon B Johnson annual Taste of Weehawken was held at the waterfront foodco this past weekend almost every restaurant from Weehawken was present with as many samples of the food you could eat even out on rock and culinary program was represented out camera was there to catch someone matching send text to Chinatown San Francisco loud starting over lyrics Gabby tell me about Chase the Weehawken application  show Mr Dan Howell doing how is your first taste of Enoch and God wonderful wonder how much work did they put in preparing the food on Sunday they gave in and work 8 to 3 on Monday and then once again today 8 in the morning till 3 o'clock tuxedo strawberries yesterday they made the shrimp has been just a fantastic experience they've been working non-stop okay alright thanks 16th year  and every time we raise goes to the public Weehawken Public Library is it get bigger do you get more participants every other every single year it gets bigger and bigger and more restaurants I don't know what is always then what's your favorite part about it get all the records to come out people see each other they don't see each other throughout the rest of the year participants Jeff restaurants radar sound you have you ever your Cricket Witness News you have a great High School culinary program you have everything you want all in one so what's the best but I need to try what table do you hit so far hi welcome to the steam Studio Elizabeth McFarland come on so the studio has formally the industrial arts program and they cleaned it all out and fixed it up we painted coming to Great Whites to do when kids are creating a lot of interesting artworks  Marine so this year we got two new Potter's wheels and then work really nice the really strong and we had an artist come into demonstrate and he made this lovely bowl and then we blazed it I'll show you the killing later this is Clay but you spin anime cylindrical forms and then it hardens and you fire at once and then you take it out then you glaze it and you put on these nice colors and the glaze turns into glass can you fire it again  save the tables from the shop with a really industrial it's really nice and big so the kids can get turn pieces of artwork and work on those  we got a smart boy this year which is near me nice for teaching visual aids in art news lot of pictures and this is Beautiful cuz I could just turn on and find pleather of information I need on the internet this way the kids are storing on their artwork  you could see we got a lot of things happening  we're doing self-portraits for your corporate an animal that represents your personality they're working in watercolor pencils liquid watercolors and wash is it coming out really beautiful  headache it's even bigger in scale so we can put them on our tables  this area what's the sewing area fashion design costume design the kids had decorated all the old stools that we repurposed from the shop put some artistic messages and are we talking symbols so we're going to sell we're going to start selling in fashion 2 probably towards Christmas time or the holidays  so in the fashion design cabinet we do a lot of things like play high neck t-shirts screen printing t-shirts we do hand painting t-shirts we have really nice design Marcus that we always make a sketch before we start the girls are really good at sketching out what they want we're also doing a theater arts program trim so I have some really ornamental dresses here in these are from previous please which I've made for none show girls from the Annie play and then for the theater arts program we're making a props for in the drama for the full drama which is snow angel which is going to be a really cool play that we've never done a play with no singing before Sports on a different prop  computer lab where the students in common do artistic search or they can write papers I am currently doing I'm solarfast t-shirts which is when you take an egg give off the computer and then you put it on a t-shirt you put the solvent on and then you put it in the Sun so it's like solar printing on a T-shirt and it stays even after you turn on Flashlight Free app five computers that the kids can use to do research they're doing presentation board so they'll print things out hey beautiful little T kennels on a boy  this is the painting area where the kids can find any sorts paints they want kryllyk watercolors tempera wash with watercolors on that stuff  girl reading area where we have books about artists so I know books are like dinosaurs now but I think when the kids can actually feel  play a picture get more out of it than just looking at it online because they're so used to just staring at a screen all the time  anomaly melting glass which I want to get into later in the year this is a still life after one of the students at is going drawings to get into art school for her portfolio these are all the props for the play which really cool we have on the scene in a pretzel shop they made radios for all the different characters in the play We Made It chameleon  turn the play the really cute we did the kids Henry and Brendan made him awesome cash register Play 3 live fake money self all play props are coming out really great I had some donate costumes for the play so we got that going on which is really exciting because lot of when I talked people in the community there's so willing to donate and help and come talk so we're going to have a muralist come talk at the end of this like spring the end of the school year cuz I'm going to put them in somewhere so if anybody's interested come see me  so this is a kiln I started it last night and it went up to 2000 degrees now it's up to 220 degrees right now  so you put the play that is just leather hardened into here and then I'm  to take out the pieces then a 200 degrees and now they turn into like instead of Clan underglaze to take him out and no the push for gender equality in the military just moved one step closer the house armed services committee approved a measure that would require women to register for the military draft the current law dictates all men age 18 to are required to register for the draft when was The Selective system the decision to exclude women dates back to 1981 when rule when the Supreme Court rule that woman would not take part in the draft since they were all left out of combat roles as well order for the measure to be signed into law the entire house and then the Senate would have would have to approve the legislation the house plans to vote on the measure which now belongs to the annual defense authorization bill in May according to the Washington Post can government has spent the past month assembling ivory from someone that 10000 elephants into a dozen Pires these captured tusks intended for I've gathered dust for decades but authorities will destroy them in all in a spectacular message to poachers authorities will publicly burn the stockpile weighing more than a hundred tons on Saturday it will be the largest such burn in history and a last-ditch effort to curb a poaching tray kills 35,000 elephants a year casualties this large are hard to quantify but if all of the elf who once owned the ivory in can you stop by we're walking around the African Savanna the trunk to tail trunk to tail they big stretch for more than 30 miles according to National Geographic explorers in Residence Derek and Beverly jubair the couple has long documented the scourge of poaching across the continent surrounding an alarm that without action you can lose the entire species within a few decades  it should come as no surprise that human activity is causing the world's oceans to alarm rise and acidify but an equally troubling impact of climate change is that it is beginning to rub the oceans of oxygen well ocean deoxygenation is well established a new study led by Matthew long and oceanographer at the national Center for atmospheric research finds the climate change driven oxygen loss is already detectable in certain swathes of ocean and will clean be widespread 2030 or 2040 Ultimate Way  Long told the Huffington singpost oxygen-deprived oceans may have significant impacts on green ecosystems and leave some areas of ocean uninhabitable for a certain species while some ocean Critters like dolphins and whales get their oxygen by surfacing many include fish change crabs rely on oxygen that either enters the water from the atmosphere or is released by phytoplankton via VIA photo emphasis but as the ocean surface warms it absorbs less oxygen to make matters worse oxygen in warmer water which is less dense has a tough time circulating to deeper waters

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