In NYC Stuyvesant HS is a haven for the five boroughts smartest students. The ultimate magnate school for high achieving middle schoolers seeking entry to the finest high- school education money can't buy. Back in the day, my friends competed for slots at Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Sci and Stuyvesant mainly because the local high schools were all too often holding pens for numbskulls. Getting to and from school was often challenge enough without spending your days getting yolked in the halls. The elite high schools were considered to be at least beatings free zones and desirable for that reason alone. ( The NY Observer)
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Stuy High Cherishes Nerds
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Posted on: August 25, 2007 12:26 PM, by EJGili
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Stuyvesant, from which I graduated in 1968, was the first high school in the USA to have a mainframe computer, and the first to have a cyclotron.
In 1957, a team of 50 students began construction of a cyclotron, with the project sponsored by the Physics department. By 1962, a low-power test of the device succeeded, while by account of Matt Deming, class of 1962, a later attempt at full-power operation "tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area."
I could say lots more, but want to keep this pithy.
Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | August 27, 2007 06:43 PM