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Moot Court Elective Needs Help to Compete!

Funds still needed: $4800
Raised so far: $200

Moot court is an elective course where students get to take on the role of an attorney representing their client (petitioner or respondant) at the apellate level of the United States court system. At the apellate level, issues of fact have already been determined at the trial court and now issues of law are being debated. Questions of constitutionality of a law or a trial courts decision may be at issue at the apellate level (maybe the trial courts decicion violated the Constitution). The...

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News and Upcoming Events

Black History Month Pot-Luck Friday, February 10, 2012 (4:30-9:00 pm, Pot-Luck starts at 6:00pm)

Looking for Volunteers and Donations from Students and Families to help Celebrate Black History Month

Come one, come all to the First Annual Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering's Black History Month Pot-Luck dinner.

Mark Your Calendar: CSS's 4th Annual Musical Theatre Production Jan. 27th & 28th!

Students! Families! Friends!

 

Come see Columbia Secondary School's Fourth Annual Musical Theatre Production!

 

 

Friday, January 27th, 7:00 pm

 

Saturday, January 28th, 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

 

Featuring a cast and crew of over 50 CSS Middle and High School Students!


Grease Movie Night!

On December 16th, the CSS Musical Theatre Program hosted a Sing-A-Long Grease Movie Night Fundraiser!  Students came dressed in 1950s style and enjoyed popcorn and snacks while singing along to Grease! Special Thanks to all the CSS students and families who helped make this event a success with their help and donations!

 

More photos to come soon!

Let's Celebrate Our 2nd Hispano-American Month at CSS!

 

 
OCTOBER 2011
 
CULTURAL NIGHT for FAMILIES: Thursday 27th
 
5:30 to 6:30 PM (West gym): BUFFET of food from different Hispanic countries (hosted by parents).
7:00 to 8:30 PM (auditorium): PERFORMANCES by renowned artists from across the city: Caribbean songs,
with 809 Ladies Band; flamenco, with Ballet Hispánico; an extract of a play, with Repertorio Español; Chilean
folkloric dances, with Expresiones de Chile; and meringue-salsa-bachata, with Vittico Pacheco and the Magia
dancers.
 
LECTURES by GUEST SPEAKERS for STUDENTS
 
MONDAY, October 17th 8th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. MAJA HORN, Professor Spanish & Latin American Culture, Barnard College. Topic: Recent
Dominican visual art and literature. Read a student review of Dr. Horn's lecture HERE!
WEDNESDAY, October 19th 10th grade
Guest speaker: DR. CARLOS ALONSO, Dean of the graduate school of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University. Topic:
Columbia University: history, development, present, future.
MONDAY, October 24th 9th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. WADDA RÍOS-FONT, Co-Chair Dept. of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Columbia University.
Topic: Development of a conscience of nationality in Puerto Rico (during the Spanish Empire)
WEDNESDAY, October 26th 6th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. PATRICIA VELASCO, Professor  and Program Coordinator of Bilingual Education, Queens College
Topic: The importance of being bilingual.
FRIDAY, October 28th 7th grade
Guest speaker: DRA. RAMONA HERNÁNDEZ, Director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, City College. Topic:
From One Island to Another across Countries: The Forgotten Immigration of Dominicans, 1892-