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TCA Creativity Fair highlights student innovators

Proving poet Maya Angelou’s observation that “you can’t use up creativity – the more you use, the more you have”, students from seven diocesan schools showed the depth of their creative mettle during the Trenton Catholic Academy Creativity Fair held at the Hamilton high school.

Young TCA chess team makes its mark

Stop into Hamilton’s Trenton Catholic Academy on any given school day and you’ll find the normal sports activities going on in the gym and on the playing fields after school.  Walk down the second floor corridor to room 206 and you’ll find another type of training going on ...

Stuart girls win top honors in National STEM Video Game Competition

Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Princeton, recently announced that two teams of Stuart eighth graders were winners in the 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge. 

Notre Dame's National Honor Society raises $7,000 for Anchor House

Notre Dame High School’s National Honor Society raised $7,000 for Anchor House, a local organization that helps at-risk teens. They did this through their annual scavenger hunt, which serves as the society’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

Students earn top awards in Mercer County Science Fair

Students in St. Gregory the Great School, Hamilton Square, recently earned high honors at the 2012 Mercer County Science Fair.

"O, Mary We Crown Thee..."

Pre-k through eighth grade students in St. Raphael School, Hamilton, participated in the May Crowning of the Blessed Mother and the Living Rosary.

St. Aloysius students excel in Pen Essay Contest

Seventh and eighth graders in St. Aloysius School, Jackson, recently participated in the Patriots Pen Essay Contest hosted by a local VFW Post in Jackson as part of a nationwide contest. About 124,000 students from around the nation took part in this annual event. 

Four teachers celebrated for combined 108 years in Catholic education

Four teachers were bid farewell as they prepare to retire after more than a century of collective Catholic education at St. James School, Red Bank.

Sacramental Celebration

Trenton Catholic Academy, Hamilton, recognized the second grader students who received their First Holy Communion this year in a special way.

Looking the Part

The third-grade students at St. Rose Grammar School, Belmar, wowed parents, grandparents, friends and guests with a performance of the play Aladdin in May.

Farewell, Father Mike

Msgr. Michael Walsh, pastor of St. Mary Parish, New Monmouth, receives dozens of “high-fives” as he walks along a line of students from St. Mary Elementary School.


Honoring Our Lady

Students in Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Asbury Park, honored the Blessed Mother during a recent May crowning ceremony. 

Honoring Safety

Chris Eiserle, an eighth grade student in St. Aloysius School, Jackson, was a recipient of the 2012 AAA Safety Patrol’s “Outstanding Safety of the Year.”

Catholic schools share gift of music with students

Credited as being among the most influential composers of the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky once professed, “The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God.”


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