Some recent articles
Mentions of Ridge and Valley in print and on the web.
2010 Northeast Championship WINNERS
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (www.nesea.org) - June 2010
"Where are tomorrow's technological trouble-shooters and scientists? Where are tomorrow's out of the box thinkers? RIGHT HERE..."
County’s eighth-graders dominate in solar car contest
Straus News (www.strausnews.com) - June 24, 2010
"Despite the forecast of rain, middle school students flocked in record numbers to the 2010 Northeast Junior Solar Sprint Championship..."
Ridge & Valley Charter School of Blairstown offers ‘different kind of educational experience’
Warren Reporter (NJ.com) - Mar 17, 2010
"...The charter school’s 105 students meet the same requirements of every other public school pupil in the state; they just get there by the scenic route."
Charter School Hosts Fall Festival
The Sparta Independent - Dec 3, 2009
"The students worked in committees to plan and prepare for the festival. They created all the games and prizes by hand from mostly recycled and donated materials..."
Autumn Olive Festival celebrated at Ridge and Valley Charter School, Blairstown
The Warren Repoter - Nov 11, 2009
"The festival included Autumn Olive treats including Autumn Olive Ice cream, Autumn Olive Muffins, Autumn Olive Waffles, and Autumn Olive Fruit Leather, just to name a few..."
Water lessons a drop in the bucket
NJ.com - Sep 26, 2009
"...a daylong series of interactive events, from learning about how our ancestors got their water to canoeing for older students, who also got a chance to investigate insect life in a nearby creek."
Musconetcong Watershed Association unveils educational programs
NJ.com - May 4, 2009
"[Megan] Bubalis has developed programs for three different age groups and has planned exciting activities that will include investigation of stream and field life, introduction to the ideas of sustainability..."
Blairstown school incorporates projects into curriculum
NJ Herald - Mar 23, 2009
"Ridge and Valley teachers, referred to as guides by the students, design coursework using real-life skills. Math is learned by figuring out the number of garlic bulbs the class can sprout in a garden plot, then the students do just that -- designing seed boxes, measuring wood, cutting it and constructing the equipment..."
Ridge and Valley Charter School
Sedge Island Natural Resource Education Center - April 2, 2007
"Although these are by far the youngest students who come to Sedge (they range in age from four to fourteen) they are some of the most conservation minded. They are comfortable in the outdoors no matter what the weather because..."