Students Save their High School 10 Thousand$$ May 10, 2011

Seniors at Potomac Falls HS, in Leesburg VA, did a COOL SCHOOLS energy audit and are cutting energy costs. Fewer lights on, computers on plug strips and switched off on weekends, they are even encouraging teachers to car pool or ride their bikes.  Get the whole story on 9NewsNow Friday morning at 545. WUSA-TV Washington [...]

Last Cool School for 2010 SUFFIELD HS May 28, 2010

What an inspiring year we had for the 2010 COOL SCHOOLS tour.  Suffield High School was a great way to cap off-season 2 of our series.   SHS  has an out of this world Astronomy class.  Students learn about NASA space suits from Hamilton Sunstrand, the Connecticut company that’s been making them for decades.  One of the [...]

Seymour HS Cool Schools May 21, 2010

This week’s COOL School was extra special for me, I used to go to catechism at Seymour High School when I was little and attend Basketball games with my babysitter there, so this was sort of  a homecoming.  What’s COOLER than Rock -n- Roll ?  The school play had to be cancelled one year…so Seymour High School started a [...]

Cool Schools ENRICO FERMI HS- Enfield May 14, 2010

EFHS was SO COOL it’s hard to find a place to start.  They raise 10′s of thousands of dollars for charity.  Cancer Research, Suicide prevention, MDA are just a few of their causes.  Students love Science,   I was actually SHRINK wrapped LIVE on TV this morning.  And you should see and hear the talent of the students involved in [...]

Common Ground High School-New Haven May 7, 2010

If you’ve never heard of it,  take a visit to Common Ground High School in New Haven.  It’s one of the first Charter Schools in the state.   CGHS has a 100 percent graduation rate and 93 percent of the students get accepted to College! Now that’s COOL!  Just 155 Kids in the Student Body  but the teenagers are [...]

Portland H.S. Really COOL April 23, 2010

Great time at our COOL SCHOOL this morning. Training students to do “Green” type jobs is all the rage right now and Portland High School,  is developing a program that’s starting to get national attention. The “Water and People” course not only teaches students how to purify water by building their own,  home-made filtering system… at [...]

Rockville HS Vernon April 16, 2010

Want to get students interested in Science?  Have them explore underwater caves in the Caribbean!  That’s just one of the COOL things at Rockville High School in Vernon.  Mr. Agenta’s Marine Science classes have been making the trip for the last 30 years. AG-Science at RHS is about as diverse of a program as I’ve seen.  [...]

Bristol Central H.S. COOL SCHOOLS April 1, 2010

No shortage of enthusiasm at Bristol Central High School during our COOL SCHOOLS Report this morning.  Their LIVE SHOT  was postponed because of Black Ice back in January and re-scheduled for this morning and man were they loud and PROUD! We featured an award winning Unified Sports team, Live performances from their Footloose stage production [...]

Bolton High COOL SCHOOLS. March 26, 2010

Small school, BIG HEART ! We had a great time with the Bolton High Bulldogs in our COOL SCHOOLS LIVE Report this week. Get THIS!!!  Karen Cordero’s the Environmental science class gets 3 credits at UCONN for taking water samples in local river’s and ponds and…they also send those results to the state DEP and [...]

Notre Dame HS West Haven January 22, 2010

Go Green Knights!!!!   Notre Dame High in West Haven is most definitely a COOL SCHOOL! The Audio Visual students are learning Career Skills and helping the Notre Dame Community stay in touch at the same time.  You see… they Broadcast many school events by streaming them live on their web site.  Can’t make it to [...]