With school board budget hearings starting up this week in Rockland, I wanted to comment on how ridiculous I find the timing of these meetings. I worked at a newspaper in Connecticut for the past two years, and in that state, budget hearings happened before the boards of education adopted their budgets. The school boards [...]

Just a reminder: RCC-TV’s first-ever Video Festival will be held tomorrow at Rockland Community College’s Technology Center starting at 7 p.m. The event will showcase student-produced videos and seven awards will be given out. Producers of the best overall video will receive a high-definition TV. Judges will include professionals in television, radio and the movies [...]

I spent a few hours at West Point academy today, watching the seventh annual Cyber Defense Exercise in action.

A team of roughly 30 cadets, led by senior Adrian Tilston, tried to defend a computer network against professional NSA hackers. I was pretty impressed.

The thing was that they were working in such a jargon-filled, complicated world [...]

I recently got back from a presentation with math genius Mike Byster at Little Tor Elementary School in New City. After Mike showed the kids what he could do by multiplying, squaring and dividing a bunch of numbers in his head, he taught them a little trick for squaring certain three-digit numbers. This works for [...]

With dozens and dozens of presentations at Sunday’s 22nd Science, Inventions and Technology Exhibition, there were only so many students’ stories I could get to in today’s story. But, thanks to the Internet, I can mention one more:

Mickey Pardo is a 16-year-old who is home-schooled and lives in Wesley Hills. Finding an unmined research subject, [...]