
February 10, 2012
970 Route 146, Clifton Park, NY 12065
518-881-0310
Congratulations to our Shen Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) club for a stellar performance at the District IV Spring Meeting at the Empire State Plaza on Friday, February 3rd. Our Shen FBLA students took 1st place in 7 out of 15 events, and also qualified as finalists for 5 out of 10 performance events. These students are now eligible to attend the State Leadership Conference in Rochester this coming April. Congratulations to all!
Posted 2/10/12
The High School Robotics Team inspires Orenda
and Karigon students at Karigon's Saturday Science program
Posted 2/10/12
Shenendehowa’s student finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program are Rachel Harrison and Grigoriy Tabak. To achieve the status of finalist requires achievement in the top one percent of United States high school graduating seniors who took the National Merit Scholarship examination. This award is one of the highest forms of recognition that a high school senior can achieve. A certificate will be presented to these students at the high school’s Awards Program on Thursday, May 24th. The program will be held in the Shenendehowa High School auditorium.
Posted 2/7/12
Congratulations to senior Jade Conrad who has been recognized by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for her selection as a Black History Month Creative Expression Contest winner. Jade and her fellow winners will receive awards on Sunday, February 12, 2012 at the Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School in Albany. Jade will also tape an excerpt from her essay for airing on local television and radio stations during the month of February. Congratulations to Jade and her family. We are proud of her!
Posted 2/1/12
High School East Film and Video students followed the YouTube trend of showing school spirit in a fun way. Click here to view. All students and staff are welcome to join in the next lip dub in MAY 2012!!
Shen High School sent 13 students from the
World of Difference Club to the STOP (STUDENTS TOGETHER OPPOSING
PREJUDICE) Conference at Siena College.
Each year 200 students from 20 Capital Region Middle Schools and
High Schools participate in an anti-bias conference.. This
conference is sponsored by the Martin Luther King, Jr.and Coretta
Scott King Lecture Series and is organized and run by the
Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute.
Students meet in small groups and are involved in activities,
workshops, discussions and action planning around issues of
prejudice, tolerance, and respect. Students attend this conference
to actively work in groups with adult leaders to discuss ways they
can become more involved and to help extinguish intolerance,
bullying, and discrimination. Students are led by trained ADL
facilitators, but there is ample input from the students
themselves as they make plans to bring what they learned back to
their schools.
Advisors - counselors or teachers - from the schools also take
part in their own workshop where they are guided through the
themes of the day with a focus on becoming equipped with the tools
to bring the lessons learned back to their schools.
Posted 1/6/12
High School Principal's January 2012 Newsletter.
Posted 1/6/12
The High School Robotics Team had a rare opportunity to meet at the Glennville Armory to learn about and drive some of the latest robots currently in use by the U.S. Army in the Middle East
Posted 12/23/11
HSE Film and Video students joined in on the popular YouTube trend of Dance Party Friday. Students and staff of HSE participated in the first ever DPF. Film Video students recorded and edited all footage. Click here to view video. Coming soon: Shen’s first HSE LIPDUB.
Posted 12/7/11
This Friday the December 9th, the Tri-M Music Honor Society is hosting “Shen’s Got Talent”; a singing, dancing, and performing extravaganza. The show will start at 7:00 in the High School East Auditorium. Tickets will be $5 at the door.
Posted 12/7/11
The High School West Environment Club has generously donated all of the money it has collected from can and bottle recycling this semester to the Saratoga County Chamber Angel Program to support a child in need this holiday season.
Posted 12/1/11
The Class of 2015 December/January Newsletter.
Posted 11/16/11
Shen High School held its annual Veterans Day Ceremony. This year, Korean War veteran Cornelius "Bud" Albert received his honorary high school diploma making him the first graduate of the class of 2012!. Mr. Albert left high school to join the army. His grandchildren attend Tesago Elementary. The ceremony also included the Presentation of Colors and the POW MIA Ceremony by the American Legion. The Mostly A Capella choir sang the national anthem.



Posted 11/14/11
Seniors and parents are invited to attend an informative financial aid workshop being held on Thursday, December 8th from 6:30 – 8:00 pm in High School East Little Theatre. Beth Post-Lundquist, Director of Financial Aid at Skidmore College will be the presenter. This workshop is very helpful to parents of seniors.
Posted 11/9/11
HS physics students launched Stomp Rockets in physics to determine the range of the rockets at various launch angles.
Posted 11/8/11
The High School Drama Club will present Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest on Thursday, 11/17, Friday, 11/18 & Saturday, 11/19 at 7:30 p.m. in the HSW auditorium. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. Click here for more information.
Posted 11/8/11
In October, High School students were honored at the 3rd annual Green and White Award Ceremony. Click here to view award winners.
Posted 11/2/11

Shenendehowa High School recognized 16
students for being named Commended Students in the 2011 National
Merit Scholarship Program. These seniors were presented with a
Certificate of Commendation by the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation.
Commended students include: Maria Albrecht, Givan Amaratunga,
Grace Barkhuff, Kristin Bartlett, Lauren Fish, Trevor Hennigan,
Siyao Liu, Michelle McCarthy, Karann Putrevu, Nicholas
Ringelberg, Elizabeth Rogers, Catherine Shattuck, Gina Stalica,
Carolyn Stewart, Jiun-Kai Wang,and Jonathan Zeosky.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being
honored for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will
not continue in the competition for Merit Scholarship awards to be
offered next spring, Commended Students placed among the top
50,000 of over 1.5 million students who entered the 2012 National
Merit Program by taking the 2010 PSAT/NMSQT Qualifying Test.
Posted 11/1/11
High School Robotics Team 20-The Rocketeers
competed in the off-season tournament River Rage in Manchester New
Hampshire on Saturday October 29. The team finished in second
place with alliance partners from Augusta Maine and Bridgewater
Massachusetts. We had a great day and made it home safely through
the snow in the Berkshires!
Lisa Liu, a senior at Shenendehowa High School East, was chosen as the 2011 Lois Lyman Concerto Competition Winner to play violin as a soloist with the Empire State Youth Orchestra. She will be performing November 12 at 7:30 at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Lisa performs in the school orchestra under the direction of Mr. Joseph Gumpper. She was the assistant concertmaster of the 2011 NYSSMA All State Symphony Orchestra, was selected for the 2011 All Eastern Honors Orchestra, and was the recipient of the 2010 Saratoga-Warren County Music Educators’ Association Scholarship Award. She played in the pit orchestra of Hubbard Hall’s 2010 production of Hansel and Gretel. This past summer, Lisa attended Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s String Quartet Workshop and was concertmaster of the Young Artists Orchestra.
Posted 10/20/11
Shenendehowa students were inducted into the National Honor Society at a ceremony held in October. Click here to view the list of the 2011 inductees.
Posted 10/7/11
Shenendehowa High School Senate held its annual Spirit Rally to honor the fall sports teams. All 3,000 high school students attended the event held in Steuerwald Stadium. Teams were announced and Cheer wars, a tug of war and a relay race was held.
Shen High School physics students
calculate acceleration due to gravity
by dropping water balloons, golf balls, and pumpkins from the top
of the bleachers. Neglecting air resistance, all objects
accelerate at the same rate (9.81 meters/second2). An object’s
mass has absolutely no impact on how fast it falls. So, a pumpkin
and an apple dropped at the same time from the same height will
hit the ground at the same time.
Students measured the distance the objects fell, recorded the
times for the falls, used their physics equations to calculate the
acceleration due to gravity for each object, and then compared
their calculated value to the accepted value.
Posted 10/4/11
National Honor Society Inductions will be held on Monday, October 17th at 6:30 in the HSE Auditorium.
Posted 10/4/11
Class of 2015 October-November Newsletter.
Posted 10/4/11
High School West counseling center brochure for Open House.
Posted 9/23/11
Please see the information below regarding the homecoming football game to be played Friday night at 7pm against Albany High School/p>
• All 2,000 student section t-shirts have been sold out. On behalf of the Shen Athletic Department we would like to say thanks to everyone helping to support a great cause in the fight against cancer.
• All students who plan on attending the game need to be in school Friday
• Ticket gates will open at 6 pm Friday night and we would encourage everyone to get there early as parking will be at a premium. Cost is $3 for adults and $1 for students unless they have purchased a shirt and admission to the game is included in the price of the shirt
• All Shen students will use the student entrance back by the new gym girls locker room to enter the stadium
• Students need to be wearing their t-shirts as only students with t-shirts will be allowed in the designated student sections
• The end zone seating is reserved for the Class of 2012
• Be prepared in case of inclement weather
• And we would like to encourage all students, parents, staff and community members who are attending the game to wear green and white tomorrow in support of Shenendehowa School Pride
• Go Shen!!
Posted 9/21/11
Chaperones/administrators will use passive alcohol devices prior to and /or during selected Shen High School student events (including but not limited to dances, and after-school social activities, athletic events) to better determine whether or not a student has consumed alcohol. [MORE]
Posted 9/16/11
Fruits Of Our Labor Club working to raise our own vegetables at High School East.
Posted 9/16/11
The FBLA club recently collected school supplies for residents in the Schoharie County region that were impacted by Hurricane Irene and the flooding that ensued. Students, faculty and staff were overwhelmingly generous with their donations and we were able to collect roughly ten boxes of supplies to send. Thank you to everyone who took the effort to donate to this important cause.
Shen High School junior, Sanjay Anchar, has
been awarded the National Maritime Historical Society First Place
Special Prize for his New York State History Day website entry
entitled “LBJ & the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Sanjay was awarded
a scholarship grant of $150.00 for his project. This project was
completed as part of the American Studies Honors program taught by
Amber Quinn and Tammy Crump.
The National Maritime Historical Society is a not-for–profit
membership organization dedicated to preserving and promoting
knowledge of our maritime heritage.
Posted 9/2/11
Fingertip facts for juniors. Click here for information for students in gr. 11.
Posted 9/2/11
High School West’s first day, Wednesday, September 7, will be a full-day orientation program. Click here for Class of 2015 Welcome Brochure.
Posted 8/17/11
Class of 2015 (9th Grade) August Newsletter
Posted 8/3/11
High School Principal's August Newsletter
Posted 7/1/11
At 744, the class of 2011 was the largest class to graduate from Shen (see list of graduating classes). 247 received Advanced Regents Diplomas, 171 Advanced Regents with Honors Diplomas and 58 students had a GPA at or above 95%. Click here to view the academic scholarship and awards granted to the Class of 2011. Click here to see the list of graduates.
Posted 7/1/11