Education
By TAPINTO MILLBURN-SHORT HILLS STAFF
March 28, 2025
MILLBURN, NJ -- On March 22, children and people of all ages visited the library to create things, ranging from the adorable to high-tech in celebration of Makers Day.Sarah Pardi, Head of Public Services at the library, provided a list of activity stations : KaleidoscopesFlapping butterfliesLEGO ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the last Board of Education meeting, Director of Humanities Jenny Graf, Millburn High School (MHS) History Department Chair Gina Watts and MHS World Languages Department Chair Frank Gontier shared a presentation that laid out the new humanities pathways for the 2025-2026 school ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ - The West Orange Board of Education meeting featured Superintendent Hayden Moore's Preliminary Budget Presentation for the 2025-26 school year and recognized the West Orange High School Mock Trial Team for their outstanding performance in the state finals.Teachers, staff, and ...
MILLBURN, NJ — Dr. William Miron, Principal of Millburn High School (MHS), publicly announced his retirement in an email on March 18 and will not be returning for the 2025-2026 academic year.He spoke of enjoying his years in the district. “I am very appreciative of our staff, who always have the ...
VALLEY FORGE, PA – Eight outstanding Scouts from Scouting America Troop 19, St. Rose of Lima Church in Short Hills recently completed the prestigious Spirit of America Youth Leadership Program at Valley Forge from February 27 to March 2, 2025. The program was sponsored by the Military Order of ...
MILLBURN & SPRINGFIELD, NJ – For the second year in a row, the Robotics Warriors, a VEX IQ Robotics team under the Livingston Robotics Club, have earned the coveted Judges Award and secured a spot in the New Jersey VEX IQ Robotics State Championship. The team members showed that they are ...
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — Odyssey of the Regionals was last Saturday, March 1, and 16 teams from three Millburn schools participated in the New Jersey Skylands Regional Odyssey of the Mind competition at Hillsborough Middle School. Five of Glenwood School’s seven teams came in first place. One team was in ...
MILLBURN, NJ – During the last several Board of Education Meetings (BOE), parents have been requesting that the district follow Policy 2425.1 – Independent Physical Education. See policy above. According to Jeannette Glass, mother of athlete Dexter Lam, “It clearly states that ALL student athletes ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the February 24 Board of Education (BOE) meeting, the 2025-2026 calendar may have been the last thing on the minds of the Board members. The team had already gone through the process of finalizing next year’s calendar back in October, when they made the difficult decision to ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the February 24 Board of Education meeting, Millburn High School (MHS) English Department Chair Jessica Siegel and Director of English & Language Arts (ELA) Oona Marie Abrams shared a presentation on the subject’s new pathways for the 2025-2026 school year and beyond.Abrams ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Neel Ahuja, Paridhi Tyagi and Daniel Han earned first, second and third place (respectively) in different categories at the North Jersey Regional Junior Sciences & Humanities (JSHS) on Feb. 26. The three Millburn High School Science Research students qualify to advance to the ...
EVANSTON, IL – Short Hills resident and Newark Academy student Matthew Herbert has become a National Merit Finalist. He will be competing with 15,000 students across the country for a scholarship. He was one of eight Newark Academy National Merit Finalists. Five other Short Hills residents who ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the February 10 Board of Education meeting, Assistant Superintendent John Connolly and Director of STEM Christie Young shared a presentation about new Science and STEM pathways. The presentation reflects continued progress with the expansion of access to even the most rigorous ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the February 10 Board of Education meeting, Cheryl Schneider announced her anticipated retirement from her position as Business Administrator for Millburn Schools at the end of the 2024-2025 school year.Schneider enumerated some of the many achievements that marked her nine years ...
EVANSTON, IL – The National Merit Corporation has chosen 7,500 finalists from 15,000 semifinalists who are eligible for Merit Scholarship Awards. The winners will be announced from now till late June.The 18 Millburn High School students areSaneev ChandranCindy ChenRichard DongAlexander FaustRitvik ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - The Consortium of Berkeley Heights, Chatham, Millburn, New Providence, and Summit School Districts recently hosted a powerful event as part of their ongoing Wellness Series: What You Need to Know. The evening featured a screening of Screen Agers: Growing Up in the Digital Age, ...
MILLBURN, NJ – As the Board of Education’s new leadership wraps up its first month in office, progress has been and continues to be made with respect to the Board and District goals for the 2024-2025 school year – from the continued negotiations between the Board and the Millburn Educators’ ...
MILLBURN, NJ – A couple of weeks ago, Millburn High School (MHS) seniors Neel Ahuja and Benjamin Li were named Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Top 300. This week, Li became one of 40 finalists. LI's Project Title is MD-SA2: Multimodal, Depth-Aware Brain Tumor Segmentation in Sub-Saharan ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ – Three Short Hills students presented at Newark Academy's First Student Artifical Intelligence Summit on Jan. 11. According to Julie Kayzerman, Associate Director of Communications & Marketing, “This Summit was really unique in that students ran every single presentation and ...
FREEHOLD, NJ – Millburn-Short Hills and Summit Elementary students from the Pink Panthers VEX IQ Robotics Competition team 22280G, secured the VIQRC Design Award at the Krubots- VIQRC Rapid Relay Tournament ES/MS in Freehold, NJ. The team attended the event alongside three sister teams from ...
PUERTO RICO — Eighth grade Millburn Middle School Student (MMS) Vikrant Kawadkar traveled to Puerto Rico to compete in the inaugural International Environmental Science Olympiad (IESO) held during winter break at the end of December.Participants competed in buzzer-based bees, written exams, ...
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - New Providence School District will host a viewing of the award-winning documentary “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age” on Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 at 7pm at New Providence High School. This event is open to the community. Please pre-register here.“Screenagers”, ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Millburn High School (MSH) Seniors and members of the MHS Senior Research Program, Neel Ahuja and Benjamin Li, were named as Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Top 300 Scholars this week.The STS is the country's oldest and most prestigious science competition. According to the ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Superintendent Dr. Kate Diskin recently announced that the school district hired Dr. Jill Sack to serve as Interim Principal for Millburn Middle School (MMS) through the end of this academic year. According to Diskin, “Dr. Sack brings over thirty years of experience in education, ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the January 2 Board of Education (BOE) meeting, nominations took place for BOE President. In a peaceful transfer of power, Kris Heinrichs was voted in after a full year with Board Member Viswa Reddy at the helm.In fact, it was Reddy himself who nominated Heinrichs for the role.
MILLBURN, NJ -- The Board of Trustees of the Millburn Free Public Library recently announced the upcoming Phase 2 of its building renovation project. According to Director Mike Banick, “This phase will focus on the modernization of the second-floor program rooms, community meeting spaces, hallways ...
MILLBURN, NJ – At the November 25 Board of Education (BOE) meeting, Junior Class President Siddhanta Mishra made a compelling case for a vast expansion of the liberties of his peers. Mishra proposed a system known as Junior Privilege, named after Senior Privilege. In the same way as its namesake, ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Dr. Kate Diskin's recommendation that the Board of Education (BOE) appoint John Connolly as Assistant Superintendent beginning on January 1, 2025, and the BOE voted to approve him. Diskin said, “I look forward to continued collaboration with Mr. Connolly in his new role in the ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Washington Elementary School hosted its 7th annual Code Day, giving students hand-on experience in innovation. According to Superintendent Dr. Kate Diskin, “Students spent the day creating, designing, coding and building. Thanks to the PTO, students had the opportunity to visit the ...
MILLBURN, NJ – Millburn's Integrated Preschool is accepting applications. Go to the Preschool Website for applications. The lottery drawing will be held Wednesday, Feb. 12 by 11:00 a.m. through the “Wheel of Names” application. Lottery applicants will be notified by email.For additional ...