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Kristyn Brozowski’s fourth and fifth grade STEAM kids are taking the Fluor Engineering Challenge. Their goal is to create a device that will launch and return a ping pong ball back and forth over a paper net. Each group is given a limited set of materials to work with. “We studied catapults before this,” Brozowski …
Please join us for the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District Unity in the Community Forum from 5:30 – 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, February 28, 2019, in the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School library. Come glimpse the future of our RCS Program and help us discover how our school and greater community can join together to spark: CREATIVITY COLLABORATION …
On Saturday, Feb. 9, students from across the Capital Region participated in the Capital District Science Olympiad Regional competition, at Goff Middle School in East Greenbush. Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Middle School had an array of top finishers in various competitions. Second place medal winners include: Alicia Craft and Ian Brisco in Fossils Colin McDermott and Nick Cifone in …
After winning the Collins Aerospace Award at the Albany Academy First Tech Challenge (FTC) competition in January, the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk FTC team will advance to regional competition. Team members Tim Mantor, Will Robertson, Earl Thomasson and Gavin Trosclair were chosen by the judges to receive the award for the most innovative and creative robot design solution. …
The Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk wrestling team took first place at the Section 2 Class CC tournament on Saturday, Feb. 2. Fifteen wrestlers collaboratively scored a total of 240 points to claim the title over 10 other teams. Seven RCS wrestlers competed in the finals and four earned the title of champion. The team will now travel to …
Laura Reinsch, a special education teacher at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School and published author of a children’s book, took time to step out of her classroom to speak to a creative writing class. In 2017 Reinsch and her sister Lisa Krug took a risk and published the children’s book The Snowmobile Named Little Vroom. Both women …
Six students from Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Schools brought home two high accolades from their FIRST Lego League (FLL) competition held at RPI on Dec. 15. The team not only won the robot performance portion of the event, but also received first place overall, competing against 12 teams. The students will participate in another competition on Feb. 9 …
Take a look at what Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk students are saying about Diversity Awareness Day – a day focused on bringing students together.
Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School students were relocated to the middle school for a brief period of time this morning while State Police, Coeymans Police and the Albany Sheriff Department investigated an unattended bag. The bag was determined to be safe, and students returned to their regularly scheduled classes. “We are proud of how our students and …
The Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk girls’ swim team started the season with a 90-78 victory over Fonda-Johnstown. During the meet, two new records were set by the team and 11 sectional times and one state championship time were met. Carys Bartlett, Gillian Burch, Emily Sulik and Emma Rowzee took down the previous 200 medley relay record with a time …
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