Pocantico School District Appoints Adam Brown Principal 

The Pocantico Hills School District has appointed Adam Brown as the new principal and curriculum leader.  Brown, who was Pocantico’s director of curriculum and technology, started in his new position August 8, replacing Brent Harrington who […] Read more »

Ossining School District Builds Community with Summer BLOCK Parties   

Hundreds danced, played games, picked up free books, ate healthy food prepared by chefs, and learned about community services at the Community BLOCK Parties sponsored by the Ossining School District and […] Read more »

Ossining Engineering Students Stay Afloat in Cardboard Boat Race

While swim practice continued in half of the town pool one afternoon in late May, on the other side students in Ossining High School teacher Douglas Albrecht’s Foundations of Engineering […] Read more »

Briarcliff Junior Receives Honorable Mention at Genius Olympiad

  Junior Chris Li represented the Briarcliff High School Science Research Team at Genius Olympiad at SUNY Oswego, June 17 -22. His project, “Examination of Higher Order Restrictive and Repetitive […] Read more »

Pocantico Recognizes English Language Learners for their Success

Pocantico Hills School students who are not native speakers of English come from many countries including China, Libya, Colombia, Philippines, India and Ecuador. Each year, the school celebrates the diversity […] Read more »

Tarrytown Fourth Graders Create Winning Name for a Falcon Chick – Cardi Beak!

The winner is…Cardi Beak! For years, peregrine falcons have laid eggs in early spring and birthed chicks soon after in a manmade nest box, installed and maintained by the New […] Read more »

Irvington Fifth Graders See How Robotics Protect the Environment

Irvington Main Street School fifth graders welcomed Westchester County Police Detective Thomas Barker, who brought the department’s Hazardous Devices Unit robot to school on June 7. Detective Barker demonstrated how […] Read more »

Ossining Senior Uses Virtual Reality to Study Concussions

  Ossining High School senior Giovanni Santucci won the Best in Category award for behavioral and social sciences at the recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix. His […] Read more »

Pocantico Eighth-Graders Design Innovative Solutions to Life’s Problems

Pocantico Hills School eighth-graders identified challenges in life and developed potential solutions in this year’s Innovation & Design class. School Superintendent Carol Conklin-Spillane (who retired on June 30) said, “You […] Read more »

Irvington High School Science Research Students Earn Awards at Westlake Competition

Thirteen sophomores who are members of Irvington High School’s Science Research program earned top awards at the Westlake Science Competition on June 1. The students were among 260 students from […] Read more »