Stuyvesant High School

The Stuyvesant High School ( College Stuyvesant ) is a public corporation New Yorkean of Secondary education, specialized in the disciplines of the Mathématiques and of the Science S. Fondée in 1904 in the district Is of Manhattan, the school moved in 1992 in new buildings, with Battery Park City. Stuy , which counts many famous former students, including four Nobel Prize, car his reputation of its high level teaching, which makes it possible a broad percentage of its graduates to integrate prestigious universities.

The Stuyvesant High School belongs off to the Specialized High Schools New York City , a structure which gathers (in 2006-2007) the nine public lycées new yorkais accessible only on selective criteria of recruitment. These schools, managed by the department of the education of the town of New York, are accessible free to the residents from the town of New York, the admission taking place on Concours. There exists between these various colleges an environment of cordial, generating competition of emulation. Thus, the Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx High School off Science dispute each year the first place of the Intel Science Talent Search , a scientific contest on matters such as the Physique, the Mathématiques or the Biochimie, whose price is a Grant of a value of 100.000 dollars.

The establishment, initially reserved to the boys, became mixed in 1969. Moreover, since the installation of the buildings with Battery Park City in 1992, the equipment for the girls became as numerous as those of the boys.

At the time of the Attacks of September 11th, 2001, the buildings of the school, near to the World Trade Center, were used as control unit during several weeks following the events. The courses were temporarily transferred to Bronx High School off Science. The novel Nine Eleven of the writer Jean-Jacques Greif reports this episode.

History

Stuyvesant High School holds its name of the Dutch Pieter Stuyvesant, last managing director to have managed the colony of the New-Country-Low, before the English do not seize in 1664 it.

The school, founded in 1904, then constitutes the first male public lycée of technical education of Manhattan, and accommodates in its center 155 pupils and 12 teachers. In 1907, the school is moved of its initial site, to the 225 Is 23e street, worms of the constructions conceived by the architect C.B.J. Snyder, located at the 345 Is fifteenth street, a site which it will occupy during 85 years. Its reputation growing taking into consideration its excellent performance in Mathematical and Sciences led the establishment to restrict, in 1919, its admission on school results.

The school, in front of the growing number of pupils, was obliged to reorganize its courses and the distribution of its pupils in two distinct sessions. Were set up a first session of pupils the morning, and a second session of pupils according to midday and beginning of evening, each session studying the lesson in an integral way. This policy of double session will perdura until in 1956.

In the Years 1930, in order to make the conditions of entry to the establishment more difficult, examinations of entry were set up. In the Years 1950, a plan of restoration of a budget of 2 million dollars was adopted, in order to modernize the classes of course, the libraries, magazins and cafeterias of the school.

In 1957, a team of 50 students undertook, with the support of the department of physics of the establishment, the development of a Cyclotron. After more than four years of construction, a first conclusive test is carried out with low power in 1962. A preceding high power test had, according to the testimony of a former student of 1962 Matt Deming, caused a general electric cut of the building and constructions neighborhood.

The year 1969 marks for the establishment, hitherto not-mixed, the beginning of its co-education. On the 14 accepted files of candidate girl, 12 of them will begin the school year within the school. Today, the number of girls in the school is of 43%.

In 1972, Stuyvesant High School, with the Brooklyn Technical High School, the Bronx High School off Science and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School off Music & Art and Performing Arts off obtains the statute of Specialized High Schools New York City , on decision of the legislature of State of the town of New York. This statute standardizes the admission with these establishment, which remains free but is done from now on by a contest common to the three schools. This examination bears the name of the name of Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), and tests the aptitudes of the students in mathematics and written expression. Only the access to LaGuardia High School includes/understands an oral test, which counts more than the written test in order to agree with the artistic mission of its teaching.

In 1992, a new building is built on the seaside in order to shelter the college.

September 11th

Stuyvesant is at roughly 400m or 5 minutes of walk of the site where the turns of the destroyed World Trade Center rose on September 11th, 2001. The school was evacuated during the attack. Although the cloud of smoke coming from the World Trade Center completely invaded the building, the building in itself did not undergo any collateral damage. When the courses took again the September 21st, the students were transferred in the buildings from Brooklyn Technical High School so that the buildings of the college continues to be used as a basis of operation and rescue of the victims of the attack. This situation generated, within the college of Brooklyn, serious problems of surplus production capacity of the classrooms, so that certain lesson were divided into two sessions of pupils in order to face the surge of students. It is the October 9th which the situation becomes again normal and which the courses take again within the Stuyvesant college.

Because of proximity of the buildings of the college with the site of Ground zero, this one was exposed to repercussions of Amiante. The Agence of environmental protection of the United States affirmed at this time that the college was except compared to a possible danger related to asbestos, and undertook a complete cleaning of the places, but the association of the parents of pupils of the Stuyvesant college disputed the official federal conclusions. Various incidents related to health issues will be raised after the events of September 11th: respiratory problems, generating difficulties of teaching, will be noted in professor Mark Bodenheimer, which will be transferred to Bronx High School off Science; Amit Friedlander, raises college and diagnosed of a cancer, in September 2006 by the local press will be strongly médiatisé. It ran out one year before buildings and the system of ventilation of the college was entirely cleaned and during which the pupils occupied the places, and even if no certainty makes it possible to affirm that there is a direct link between the isolated health issues and the exposure to asbestos, of fears remain and a group of student made pressure to obtain medical assistances. Alan Wayne Friedlander '67, Marina R. Gertsberg '93, Aaron J. Horwitz '94, David S. Lee '82, Arnold A. Lim '90, Gregory D. Richards '88, Maurita Tam '97 and Michael Warchola '68. Richard Ben-Veniste '60 was in addition member of the commission over on September 11th.

Famous graduates

Stuyvesant account among its former students much of mathematicians, of which major personalities in this field, invested for the majority in large universities. A certain number of important physicists and chemists also were of the pupils of Stuyvesant , as well as personalities of the media and known artists, of which the actress Lucy Liu, who hold a main role in Charlie' S Angels , the actor Tim Robbins, Walter Becker, member of the group of music Steely daN, and the actor James Cagney.

Among the former students of Stuyvesant four Nobels prices appear:

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