Shoreham-Wading River High School math students and math teacher Ellen Fraser visited the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University on April 23. The field trip included a lecture for high school students “Math is the Source Code of Human Mind” presented by Mathematician Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel, who works in representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Before the talk they visited the art exhibition “Flows of Reflectivity” in the Simons Center Gallery. They were provided with a picnic lunch after the question-and-answer session that followed the talk.

Click here to view the High School Students Explore University Math and Art Concepts slideshow.

Date Added: 4/25/2025

Shoreham-Wading River High School students Ella Frazzetto and Catherine Leonard competed at the New York State Distributive Education Clubs of America competition. They will represent SWR at the DECA Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida later this spring. Ella won a spot in the Emerging Leaders Academy (one of only 11 students selected in the state). Catherine placed second in the Apparel and Accessories Marketing category.

They were honored by the Board of Education at the April 8 meeting along with teacher Melissa Cosgrove.

Date Added: 4/18/2025

Congratulations to the SWR winter student-athletes who were honored at the April 8 Board of Education meeting by Athletic Director Mr. Eric Bramoff.

The girls basketball, girls winter track, boys basketball, boys winter track, competitive cheer and wrestling teams were all applauded for being named Scholar-Athlete teams. Mr. Bramoff also congratulated student fencers Charles Pedersen and Joseph Losquadro for their combined athletic honors and “King” Charles for his county championship.

The winter sports student athletes brought numerous All-League, All-Academic, All-Star, All-County, All-State, All-Conference, league, county and state championship titles home. Gavin Mangano was named a two-time state champion, and the cheer team was named county and state champions. Basketball coach Adam Lievre and Cheer coach Brie Carlen were each named Coach of the Year. Mr. Bramoff also congratulated Wildcats wrestling coach Joe Condon for his 300th win this season. Coach Condon will be inducted into the New York State Wrestling Hall of Fame later this spring.

Date Added: 4/18/2025

 

Shoreham-Wading River High School junior Isabelle Scherl wowed the Board of Education and members of the community at the April 8 meeting with her recitation of “What Baking Can Do,” a poem she penned. Isabelle was commended by Director of Humanities Nicole Waldbauer for her first-place win at the school’s Poetry Out Loud competition and her subsequent move to the state competition where she was named a runner-up.

In the words of English teacher Jennifer Nazer, Isabelle is truly “a dynamic whirlwind of creative energy.”

Date Added: 4/10/2025

Shoreham-Wading River High School Senior Skylar Hunt was honored at the April 8 Board of Education meeting for her exceptional journalism work.

Director of Humanities Nicole Waldbauer lauded Skylar for receiving a Quill Award at Adelphi University Press Day. The award was for best sports story for her reporting on the Thanksgiving Day Race honoring the legacy of SWR Coach Paul Koretzki. 

Students in the journalism class and club attended the event with English teacher

Vincent Ball. Additionally, the editors of the Wildcat Pause — Giovanna Aceto, Lukas Brand, Ayla Kops and Alyssa Wood — accepted the third-place award

for best newspaper layout at Press Day, as noted by Mrs. Waldbauer.

Date Added: 4/9/2025