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Liz Dion, vice president of the Board of Education, voiced support for the walkout during a meeting on Feb. 28.

South Side students to participate in national walkout

South Side High School students will be among the thousands of teenagers expected to walk out of their schools on March 14 as part of a national movement to honor the victims killed in the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. and to raise awareness about gun violence. more

By Ben Strack | 3/8/18

This photo and caption appeared on the front page of the Long Island News and the Owl in March 1968.

50 years later, locals recall Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Rockville Centre

“When we heard him speak, we were overwhelmed,” said John Simpkins Jr., recalling the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Long Beach and Rockville Centre in 1968. more

By Ben Strack | 3/1/18

Chris D’Ambrosio, a science teacher at South Side High School, helped student Emma Garrett use one of the district’s zSpace computers to analyze and label parts of the human body’s circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems.

South Side High School on cutting edge of evolving classroom practices

Watching a human heart beat up close is an experience reserved for cardiovascular surgeons, and to hold one in your hand sounds like something out of an Edgar Allan Poe poem. Yet at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, students can virtually grab a beating heart from a screen and pull it toward them, examining it from all angles, as vibrations — simulating blood pumping to vital organs — pulse through a stylus and into their hand.“If you put your face slowly into the heart,” teacher Chris D’Ambrosio said, smiling, “you’ll see the inside.” more

By Ben Strack | 1/5/18

South Side High School senior Caroline Lanzillotta, left, and her twin sister, Julia, help lead Homecoming each fall as vice president and president, respectively, of the class of 2018. They helped design this year’s Chinese New Year-themed float.

Twin sisters lead South Side High School’s senior class

“We’re basically polar opposites in every respect,” Julia Lanzillotta said frankly about she and her twin sister, Caroline, who were born one minute apart. Yet the two have worked in tandem in student leadership roles throughout their nearly four years at South Side High School. more

By Ben Strack | 1/5/18

Saving the world, $10 at a time, Part III

"At 6 p.m. last Sunday, I tore off two layers of plastic sheeting covering the double doors that separate my upstairs living room from my ground-level family room . . . more

1/4/18

Students in the BMBroadcasting program at Mepham High School in North Bellmore were busy on a recent Thursday preparing for an important show featuring an interview with the school principal, Eric Gomez. Among them were, clockwise from top left, sophomores Colleen Hefferen, of Bellmore, and Aidan Carolan, of North Merrick; senior Jason Spiller, of Bellmore; and junior Michael Daniels, of North Merrick. Simulating authentic workaday situations is at the heart of experiential learning, educators say.

Experiential learning, vocational education making a comeback

Part five in the series “Educating the 21st Century Child.”Mepham High School broadcast teacher Stu Stein often holds class in the dark, and with virtually every surface in his … more

By Scott Brinton | 12/22/17

Art Teacher Keith Gamache, far left, explained some coding terms and concepts to his students on Dec. 8.

South Side High School's new coding course is a virtual playground

“Say if I type in . . . ‘Honey, where’s my super suit?’” freshman Christian DiRubbio said, referring to words hollered by Lucius Best in Pixar Animation Studios’ “The Incredibles” as … more

By Ben Strack | 12/21/17

A number of attendees at Sunday’s forum, at which Belmont Park plans were presented, questioned the need for a second stadium to house the New York Islanders, but others like this man clearly favored moving the Islanders to Belmont.

Bidders release Belmont plans at 'listening session'

Applause broke out at Elmont Memorial High School on Sunday as the two finalists for the development of Belmont Park announced plans to create thousands of temporary and permanent jobs as part of ambitious plans to develop the racing center further. more

By Tim Denton | 12/12/17

Three South Siders honored in NYS High School Girls Hall of Fame

Of the 18 honorees inducted into the New York State High School Girls Soccer Hall of Fame earlier this month, three of them once reigned at South Side High School, helping to build the avid soccer culture that exists in Rockville Centre. more

By Ben Strack | 9/21/17

As one of her projects for Hofstra University's recent High School Journalism Institute, Munahil Sultana, left, an Elmont Memorial High School sophomore, wrote about her schoolmate Mikelley Baptiste, right. They were pictured here at the Institute. Heralds Executive Scott Brinton, who is an adjunct Hofstra professor, and Peter Goodman, a full-time professor, are the Institute's co-directors.

Mikelley Baptiste: Her faith inspires her schoolwork at Elmont High

Editor’s note: Sultana is a at Elmont High School. She wrote this review as part of Hofstra University’s recent High School Summer Journalism Institute. It is the first in a series … more

By Munahil Sultana | 8/27/17

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