School Year 2012-13 Archive

NYACK MUSIC DEPARTMENT:  The Nyack Music Department won the National Educational Music Company's (NEMC) “Music Is Life” contest for $10,000 in new instruments .  Thanks to all who supported them with their vote.  View the winning video at www.NEMC.COM.
    Congratulations to senior Jonathan Rizner, senior trumpeter, for being accepted into the NYS Band Directors Honors Band Symposium - the only Rockland student to be so honored.
    The Nyack High School Chamber orchestra, invited by audition to compete in the the 2013 American Strings Teachers Association National Orchestra Festival in Providence Rhode Island last month, received the highest rating possible, Superior.  Fifteen school orchestras were invited from around the country and seven were in Nyack’s category.  The group had received Superior ratings twice before when it competed in the Festival.  
    Even more impressive it placed third in its category, along with school orchestras more than three times larger than Nyack High School and nationally ranked and reknown.
    The Orchestra is on the way to Prague in two weeks for international competition.

MERIT SCHOLARS:  Nyack High School has three commended students in the prestigious 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSC).   More than 1.5 million students took the PSAT last October and entered the NMSC competition for recognition and awards.  Commended students rank among the top 5% of the test takers. Congratulations to Commended students:  Michael M Forrest, Aniruddh Marellapudi and Alexander Tippett .