The STEM Academy, a partnership with Mercer County Community College, will provide Mercer County high school students with academically challenging and rigorous curriculum including Project Lead The Way, an activity-, project-, and problem-based curriculum.  Students will work toward the completion of college credits and industry credentials while in high school. In addition, student learning will be enhanced through key business partnerships allowing for multiple workplace readiness and experiential learning opportunities focused on advanced manufacturing. In this specialized learning environment, students will apply what they know, identify problems, find unique solutions, and lead their own learning. Read more.

The Trenton Digital Initiative, a program through Mercer Street Friends, recently donated a refurbished personal computer to a BOAT student, Dasheaira Gayle.  The BOAT class collected and donated over 50 computers and monitors to the program.  The manager of the project, David Zboray, presented the computer to Dasheaira.  Her family did not have a computer or internet at home. Mr. Zboray also gave her a gift card worth $120 to cover the cost of WiFi in her house.

Sanjana Duggirala of East Windsor has been selected by Columbia University to participate in the Science Honors Program (SHP) during the 2015-2016 school year. Classes are held each Saturday during the entire academic year from September to May. There are no tuition charges for the program, and the SHP has offered courses that have spanned from "Organic Chemistry" to "Computer Programming in Java" to "Calculus in the Complex Plane." The competition for admission to the SHP was intense, with more than 1,900 students competing for 400 available positions. Sanjana is to be congratulated on the outstanding academic record which has earned her a place in Columbia's program.

Students from Mr. Sbar's Anatomy and Physiology I and CTE Science courses attended a presentation by the Allentown First Aid Squad.  They viewed life-saving equipment devices used by the EMT squad, experienced what it was like to use some of these devices for themselves, and also saw one of the squad's special response vehicles. Kyle Emley, an Electrical II student, is an EMT with the squad.  He presented along with his father, Jerry Emley, and Ed Gensigner, also EMTs at Allentown.