Tamarac Secondary School Grades 9 - 12
No School Due to Staff Development Day - Friday, March 26
Science
Class Creates Models Based on Darwin's
Diaries
Tamarac
High School students recently created models for science class depicting
the various islands that Charles Darwin visited that led him to his
theory of evolution. Students designed their models after
reading diaries that he wrote during his
explorations on the HMS Beagle. “He visited so many places, not just the
Galapagos Islands ,” explained senior Lindsay King.
Read
more...
Posted 2/26/10.
High School Honor Roll Announced
Tamarac High
School recently announced
the Honor Roll for the
second quarter of
the 2009-10 school year. Congratulations to
all our students!
Posted 2/05/10.
Looking for College Open House
Information? Scholarship Application
Deadlines?
Parents and
students interested in learning about
upcoming college open houses, scholarship
application deadlines, testing dates and
more are encouraged to
visit the
High School Counseling Center where the
December newsletter is now available.
Posted
11/25/09.
Students Collect Jeans for Efforts
to Help Haiti and Homeless Teens
Tamarac
students recently collected more than 100
pairs of jeans for
Teens
for Jeans, a national program that
provides gently used jeans to homeless
teens.
This year, the first 100,000 jeans collected
will go to help people in Haiti. Last year,
Tamarac students donated more jeans than any
other area school. This drive at Tamarac is
organized by the Reaching Academic and
Personal Potential mentoring program.
Congratulations to our students for their
great work!
Posted 2/05/10.
RPI
Graduate Student Speaks to Tamarac Science Classes About His
Research on the HIV Virus
RPI graduate student Jacob Martin
recently met with Tamarac middle school and high
school students
to talk about his work to combat the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
Martin is pursuing his doctorate in chemical engineering at RPI and
taught students about virus which correlated with their lessons.
Read more...
Posted 1/22/10.
Students
Volunteer to
Raise Money
for
Pediatric
Trauma Unit
Tamarac High
School students
involved in
Key Club
volunteered
their time
on Saturday,
Nov. 28 at
Crossgates
Mall to sell
Bells of
Life with
members of
the Troy
Kiwanis
Club. The
students
worked for
eight hours
and raised
more than
$400 for the
Pediatric
Trauma Unit
at Albany
Medical
Center.
Great job!
Posted 12/01/09.
Tamarac
Students Participate in Breast Cancer
Awareness Walk
More than a
dozen Tamarac High School students and half
a dozen parents participated in the Oct. 18
"Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" Walk
in Albany on Oct. 18. The event featured
12,000 people walking together to raise a
total of $1.05 million. Congratulations to
our students and parents for participating
in such a worthwhile event!
Posted
11/10/09.
Tamarac
Key Club Organizes Blood Drive
The American Red Cross received much
needed blood donations thanks to a Blood Drive organized by the
Tamarac Key Club. Each year students organize two blood drives to
help the Red Cross.
Read more... Posted 11/4/09.
Students
Learn About Gas Laws by Flying Hot Air Balloons
Tamarac High School students recently
put their knowledge of gas laws to the test as they constructed and
released hot air balloons as part of their Chemistry classes. The
activity continues a tradition started by long-time science teacher
Ron Geuther, who retired two years ago.
Read more... Posted 11/4/09.
Tamarac
Students
Create
Unique
Artwork
After
Learning
About Artist
Tamarac High
School
students
recently got
an
opportunity
to learn
about artist
Andy
Goldsworthy
and then try
their hand
at his
unique
artistic
style.
Students in
Jillian
Kautz’s
Studio in
Art class
learned
about
Goldsworthy,
an artist
who uses
natural and
found
objects to
create
site-specific
sculpture
and land
art. “Andy
Goldsworthy
used rocks
and raw
materials
instead of
pencils or
traditional
art
materials,”
explained
freshman
Gerry
Ramundo.
Read more
and see more
photos of
artwork that
students
created...
Posted
10/07/09.
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