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'''Stuyvesant High School''' is one of [[New York City]]'s specialized [[math]]- and [[science]]-based [[public school|public]] [[high school]]s, and is run by the [[New York City Department of Education]]. The school was founded in 1904 on Manhattan's East Side, and for 65 years Stuyvesant admitted only boys. Since 1969 it has been a co-educational environment, and after moving to its [[Battery Park City]] building the facilities for girls were put on a par with those for boys.
'''Stuyvesant High School''' is one of [[New York City]]'s special ed public schools, and is run by the [[New York City Department of Education], so you know it's retarded.


Admission to Stuyvesant is by [[Specialized High Schools Admissions Test|competitive examination]] and is open to all residents of New York City with no [[tuition fee]]. The school is noted for its [[List of Stuyvesant High School people|famous alumni]], its academics, and the large number of graduates attending prestigious universities. There has been a friendly rivalry of long standing between Stuyvesant and the [[Bronx High School of Science]] over students' awards from the [[Intel Science Talent Search]], with both schools claiming dominance at various times.
Admission to Stuyvesant is by an IQ test. If your IQ is below 50, they let you in.The school is noted for its support by Oprah, who likes retards.There has been a friendly rivalry of long standing between Stuyvesant and Hunter College High School, which rocks and is for smart people.


Classes were in session at Stuyvesant when a terrorist attack destroyed the nearby [[World Trade Center]] towers, and the school building served as a command post for several weeks afterwards. The school was temporarily relocated and shared facilities with [[Brooklyn Technical High School]] until its own building could be returned to its intended use. The special issue of the ''The Stuyvesant Spectator'' on the tragedy was reprinted in ''[[The New York Times]]''.
Classes were in session at Stuyvesant when a terrorist attack destroyed the nearby [[World Trade Center]] towers, and the school building served as a command post for several weeks afterwards. The school was temporarily relocated and shared facilities with [[Brooklyn Technical High School]] until its own building could be returned to its intended use. The special issue of the ''The Stuyvesant Spectator'' on the tragedy was reprinted in ''[[The New York Times]]''.
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The New York City Department of Education reports that public per student spending at Stuyvesant is slightly lower than the city average. <ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> However, Stuyvesant also receives some private contributions. <ref name="OSB_promo">{{cite web|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv|title=Stuyvesant promotional video|format=video (WMV)|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Shortly after the new building was completed, the $10 million TriBeCa Bridge was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street.
The New York City Department of Education reports that public per student spending at Stuyvesant is slightly lower than the city average. <ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> However, Stuyvesant also receives some private contributions. <ref name="OSB_promo">{{cite web|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv|title=Stuyvesant promotional video|format=video (WMV)|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Shortly after the new building was completed, the $10 million TriBeCa Bridge was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street.


The new building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a district 75 school for older (aged 15-21) students with multiple disabilities and mental retardation. Wheelchair-bound students can sometimes be seen throughout the building. Some teachers remark on the unusual juxtaposition of the gifted with the disabled.
The new building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a district 75 school for older (aged 15-21) students with multiple disabilities and mental retardation, basically everyone in the school. Wheelchair-bound students can sometimes be seen throughout the building.


Glass boxes set into various places in the building's wall hold mementos from the year of each graduating class. Items displayed include water from most large rivers, mud from the [[Dead Sea]], a [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] button, pieces of the old Stuyvesant building and of monuments around the world, and various chemical compounds. In 1997 the mathematics wing was dedicated to Dr. Richard Rothenberg, the math department chairman before his death from a sudden heart attack in 1997. The Rothenberg memorial, commissioned in his honor, is a wall made up of 50 of these boxes, each featuring a concept in mathematics.
Glass boxes set into various places in the building's wall hold fire extinguishers to knock out hysterical people. In 1997Dr. Richard Rothenberg suffered a sudden heart attack when he was knocked out with one of these extinguishers.
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Stuyvesant High School
File:Stuyemblem.gif
Address
Map
345 Chambers Street

New York
,
New York

USA
Information
TypePublic (magnet) secondary
MottoPro Scientia Atque Sapientia
(For knowledge and wisdom)
Established1904
PrincipalStanley Teitel
Faculty200
Grades9-12
Number of studentsapprox. 3,200
Color(s)Red and blue
MascotPegleg Pete
NewspaperThe Spectator, The Standard
YearbookThe Indicator
Websitewww.stuy.edu

Stuyvesant High School is one of New York City's special ed public schools, and is run by the [[New York City Department of Education], so you know it's retarded.

Admission to Stuyvesant is by an IQ test. If your IQ is below 50, they let you in.The school is noted for its support by Oprah, who likes retards.There has been a friendly rivalry of long standing between Stuyvesant and Hunter College High School, which rocks and is for smart people.

Classes were in session at Stuyvesant when a terrorist attack destroyed the nearby World Trade Center towers, and the school building served as a command post for several weeks afterwards. The school was temporarily relocated and shared facilities with Brooklyn Technical High School until its own building could be returned to its intended use. The special issue of the The Stuyvesant Spectator on the tragedy was reprinted in The New York Times.

Enrollment

Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of about 3,200 and is open to residents of New York City entering either ninth or tenth grade. Enrollment is based solely on performance on the Specialized High School Admission Test (SHSAT), formerly known as the Specialized Science High School Admission Test because the three schools which used that test were all science oriented. Those original three schools were Stuyvesant, the Bronx High School of Science, and Brooklyn Technical High School. Three other schools were later added to the list, all using the same test for admission. Those schools are High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, and High School for Math, Science and Engineering at City College. As of 2005, a seventh school has been added to the list, Staten Island Technical High School. The test score necessary for admission to Stuyvesant since its relocation to its Battery Park City campus has been the highest thus far of the schools [1]. Admission is currently a matter of score on the examination, as well as an individual's pre-submitted ranking of Stuyvesant among the other specialized schools. Of New York City's 90,000 eighth-graders, about 22,000 sit for the test each year, while about 800 of the highest scoring applicants are admitted to their first choice school. Ninth and rising tenth graders are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, though far fewer students are admitted this way.

View of the Stuyvesant building from the corner of West and Chambers Streets. The Tribeca Bridge is in the foreground.

Those who score in the second-highest score bracket are offered admission to their second-choice school, while those who score in the third-highest bracket are offered admission to their third choice school. According to Article 12 of New York education law, "Admissions to the Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and Brooklyn Technical High School shall be solely and exclusively by taking a competitive, objective, and scholastic achievement examination, which shall be open to each and every child in the city of New York." [2]. The current admission policy is avaialble from the NYC Department of Education.[1] According to the Department of Education, Stuyvesant accepts students solely based on their performance on the SSHSAT, although former Mayor John Lindsay and community activist group ACORN have argued that the exam may be biased against African and Hispanic Americans. It should be noted that their political careers were helped by these allegations. [3]

Stuyvesant has contributed to the education of several Nobel laureates, winners of the Fields Medal and the Wolf Prize, and a host of accomplished alumni. It consistently leads the nation in number of National Merit Scholarships and is second to none in the number of Intel Science Talent Search Semi-Finalists and Finalists. Stuyvesant sends nearly all its students off to four year universities and around 15 percent go on to the Ivy League. Stuyvesant graduates earn an average SAT score of about 1400 (685 verbal, 723 math). [4] Stuyvesant also was the high school with the highest number of Advanced Placement exams taken, and also the highest number of students reaching the mastery level. [5] Stuyvesant celebrated the graduation of its centennial class in 2004.

History

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Postcard art featuring the 15th Street Stuyvesant building

Stuyvesant High School is named after Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherland before the ownership of the colony was transferred to England in 1664. The school is also commonly referred to as "Stuy," an abbreviation of Stuyvesant.

The school was established in 1904 as a manual training school for boys, hosting 155 students and 12 faculty. In 1907, it moved from its original location at 225 East 23rd Street to 345 East 15th Street, where it remained for the following 85 years. Its reputation for excellence in math and science continued to grow, and the school had to be put on a double session in the early 1920s to accommodate the rising number of students. In the 1930s, admission tests were implemented, making it even more competitive. During the 1950s, a $2 million renovation was done on the building to update its classrooms, shops, libraries and cafeterias.

In 1969, 14 girls enrolled at Stuyvesant, marking the school's first co-educational year. Now approximately 43% of the total student body is female. [4]

In 1957, a team of 50 students began construction of a cyclotron, with the project sponsored by the physics department. By 1962, a low-power test of the device succeeded, while by account of Matt Deming '62, a later attempt at full-power operation "tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area".[6] [7] According to Abraham Baumel, Stuyvesant principal from 1983–1994, "... I can tell you with certainty that the cyclotron never worked at Stuyvesant any more than it did for Ernest Orlando Lawrence, and he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his invention of the cyclotron. The Russians never succeeded in getting one to work, either." [6]

In 1972, Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts were chosen by the New York State Legislature as specialized high schools of New York City. The act called for an uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Technical High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Stuyvesant High School. The exam would become known as the Specialized Science High Schools Admission Test (SSHSAT) and tested students in math and science.

File:Bender with cyclotron.jpg
Teacher Alfred Bender with the cyclotron

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stuyvesant was stricken by the AIDS epidemic, with at least four teachers dying from that disease.

In the early 2000s, Gary He '02 started the now-defunct stuynet.com, a website where students could rate their teachers, although he later shut down the evaluation section after mathematics teacher Bruce Winokur threatened a libel suit. Words left on the website read "Teacher Evaluations is currently down but will soon be back better than ever. The vox populi must be heard." [8] When Stuyvesant's official web site crashed on 9/11, and during the days right after, Gary He's website was an important source (and the only web source) of information and moral support for a community in crisis. Stuynet.com now lives on under its new alias, stuycom.net [9], after ownership was transferred to Josh Weinstein '05. Stuycom.net is currently under the ownership of Gui Bessa '08, and the Teacher Evaluations are disabled. Most students now use the Stuyvesant section of RateMyTeachers.com to post teacher evaluations.[10]

School facilities

Interior of the library
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Assistant principal Danny Jaye with the Rothenberg memorial.

By the 1980s, the East 15th Street building was no longer a quality educational facility by modern standards, and the student body had also increased to several thousand and could not be accommodated by the five-story building. The New York City Board of Education secured an agreement with the Battery Park City Authority for a new building, and construction began in 1989. The new ten-floor building, located near lower Manhattan's financial district, was constructed at a cost of about $148 million, and includes 65 classrooms with about 450 computers on 13 networks, 7 pairs of escalators, various indoor sporting facilities including two gymnasiums and a pool built to Public Schools Athletic League standards, a theater with acoustics and lighting to accommodate music and drama productions, two lecture halls with movable partitions, a skylit cafeteria overlooking the Hudson River, 12 science laboratories (including a molecular biology lab and an analytical chemistry lab) and special shops for instruction in ceramics, photography, wood, plastics, metal work, robotics, and energy studies. One room in the Stuyvesant building, called the "Museum Room", is a replica of one of the rooms in the old Stuyvesant building, with desks, chairs, a table and blackboard from the old building, as well as period style paint and flooring. The room is dedicated to teacher Dr. A. Edward Stefanacci, who died in 1993. The school's library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City.

The New York City Department of Education reports that public per student spending at Stuyvesant is slightly lower than the city average. [4] However, Stuyvesant also receives some private contributions. [11] Shortly after the new building was completed, the $10 million TriBeCa Bridge was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street.

The new building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a district 75 school for older (aged 15-21) students with multiple disabilities and mental retardation, basically everyone in the school. Wheelchair-bound students can sometimes be seen throughout the building.

Glass boxes set into various places in the building's wall hold fire extinguishers to knock out hysterical people. In 1997Dr. Richard Rothenberg suffered a sudden heart attack when he was knocked out with one of these extinguishers.

Stuyvesant centennial logo
Stuyvesant centennial logo

Stuyvesant celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding in 2004. Events began on October 19, 2003 with "The Stuy Strut," a walk from the old Stuyvesant building to the new one, symbolizing the transition. [12] During March, Stuyvesant and City College hosted the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, while June 6th was the all-class reunion. Celebrations were concluded with the centennial homecoming on October 10th, and the centennial gala dinner on the 28th, featuring speakers Frank McCourt and Richard Axel. [13] The centennial class of 2004 held their graduation ceremony at Lincoln Center with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as the commencement speaker.

The South Florida Alumni Association of Stuyvesant High School had its own centennial celebration on December 4th at the Boca Raton Country Club. School principal Stanley Teitel was guest speaker. [14]

Stuyvesant and September 11, 2001

Stuyvesant is a quarter-mile from the former site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed on September 11, 2001. The school was evacuated during the ordeal and the students were temporarily relocated to Brooklyn Tech starting September 21 while the Stuyvesant building was used as one of several bases of operations by rescue and recovery workers. This caused serious congestion at Brooklyn Tech and required the students to go to the school in two shifts. Normal classes resumed three weeks later on October 9.

Because of Stuyvesant's close proximity to Ground Zero, some were initially concerned about the possibility of asbestos exposure to Stuyvesant. Indeed, the Stuyvesant High School Parents' Association has contested that the EPA's initial suggestion that the area was safe is not accurate. [15] However, the EPA indicated at that time that Stuyvesant was safe from asbestos. Some problems have been reported, including the respiratory problems of former teacher Mark Bodenheimer, who, after having difficulty continuing to work at Stuyvesant, accepted a transfer to The Bronx High School of Science. Other isolated cases similar to Bodenheimer have been revealed. Nonetheless, there is no definite evidence that such cases relate to Stuyvesant at all, and current exposure to asbestos at Stuyvesant is improbable.

The following is a list of the Stuyvesant alumni who were killed during the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center:

The 9/11 issue of The Spectator.
File:With their eyes.jpg
With Their Eyes
  • Daniel D. Bergstein '80 [16]
  • Alan Wayne Friedlander '67 [17]
  • Marina R. Gertsberg '93 [18]
  • Aaron J. Horwitz '94 [19]
  • David S. Lee '82 [20]
  • Arnold A. Lim '90 [21]
  • Gregory D. Richards '88 [22]
  • Maurita Tam '97 [23]
  • Michael Warchola '68 [24]

Richard Ben-Veniste '60 was on the 9/11 Commission.

On October 2, 2001, the school paper, The Spectator, included a special full-color 9/11 insert containing student photos, reflections, and stories which was reprinted in the Nov. 20, 2001 issue of the New York Times.

In the months after 9/11, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant, a 1993 alum, and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after 9/11 and turn them into a series of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11th – The View from a High School at Ground Zero (ISBN 0060517182). Alexander Epstein of the Stuyvesant Standard [25], the school's independent newspaper, contributed the section Out of the Blue to the book At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories (ISBN 1560254270).

Academics

Stuyvesant students undergo a college-preparation curriculum including four years of English, history, and a lab-based science, three years of math (though most student opt to take four years) and foreign language, and a semester each of introductory art, music, health, computer science, and a lab-based technology course.

Stuyvesant offers students a broad selection of electives; some of the more unusual offerings include robotics, physics of music, astronomy, and the mathematics of financial markets. Most students take calculus, and the school offers math courses through differential equations and linear algebra. A year of technical drawing used to be required; in its first semester students learned to draft by hand and in the second drafting was done by computer (CAD). Now, students take a one-semester class called Technology Graphic Communications (equivalent to the former year of drafting), and a semester of introductory computer science, in order to introduce the mainly science-oriented students to computer programming early in their career.

Entrance from the TriBeCa Bridge

A variety of Advanced Placement courses (34 are available [26]) offer students the chance to earn college credits; a few students earn enough to start college as a sophomore. In 2004 Stuyvesant began complying with Department of Education regulations mandating that Advanced Placement courses be weighted by a factor of 1.1 in grade point averages. However, this caused widespread outcry among students, faculty, and teachers, and in 2005, Stuyvesant reverted the weight of AP courses back to 1.

Computer science enthusiasts can take two additional computer programming courses after the completion of advanced placement computer science: systems level programming and computer graphics. There is also a 2 year computer networking sequence which can earn students CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification.

Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings rival those of many colleges, including the basics like French and Spanish as well as German, Latin, Hebrew, Japanese, and Italian. In 2000, Mandarin Chinese and Korean for native speakers were introduced in response to Stuyvesant's burgeoning Asian American population, although the Korean program will cease after 2006. The Muslim student body has been pushing for Arabic to be taught, but although it was expected to be offered in 2004, it was cut due to budgetary constraints. It was subsequently created in 2005 as a one year elective.

Stuyvesant's Biology and Geo-science department offers courses in oceanography, meteorology, Molecular Genetics/Biology/Science, human physiology, medical ethics, medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, nutrition science, anthropology and sociobiology, vertebrate zoology, laboratory techniques, medical human genetics, botany, and psychology. The Chemistry and Physics department offers organic chemistry, physical chemistry, calculus-based physics, modern physics, astronomy, engineering mechanics, and electronics.

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Math Survey, Stuyvesant's resident mathematics publication

Although primarily known for its strength in math and sciences, Stuyvesant is also home to a robust music program and offers students eight music groups, ranging from a symphonic orchestra and jazz ensemble to a chamber choir. Comprehensive programs in the humanities offer students courses in British and classical literature, philosophy, existentialism, debate, acting, journalism, and a host of creative writing and poetry classes. The history core requires a year of ancient, European and American history, as well as a semester of economics and government. Humanities electives include American foreign policy, civil and criminal law, Jewish history, "prejudice and persecution", "race, ethnicity and gender issues", small business management, and Wall Street.

Stuyvesant has recently entered into an agreement with City College of New York, in which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit yet are taught by Stuyvesant teachers. Some of these courses include physical chemistry, linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history. [27] [28]

Grade point averages at Stuyvesant are calculated to two decimal places; some argue that the distinction is overly fine and encourages excessive grade competition, while others use the theory of significant digits to argue that they are irrelevant. Nevertheless, the practice continues. The practice is not entirely unprecedented; in calculations for honors and other designations, the University of Chicago calculates grade point averages to four decimal places.

Extracurricular activities

=== Clubs & Pubs === Stuyvesant offers clubs, publications, teams and other opportunities with a system similar to that of many colleges. It hosts over 100 clubs and 30 publications ranging from "PottyRings", a club dedicated to Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings, and even Pink LEMONed, a Japanese rock culture club, to the Key Club, dedicated to community service [29], and the Robotics Team, which competes in the international FIRST competition. The Stuyvesant Theater Community puts on 3 student-run productions a year (the Fall Musical, Winter Drama, and Spring Comedy) as well as a one-act festival and several smaller studio productions. [30]

=== Sports === Stuyvesant fields 26 varsity teams, including a swimming team, as well as golf, bowling, volleyball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, wrestling, fencing, baseball/softball, handball, tennis, track/cross country, and football teams. In addition, Stuyvesant club teams include boys' varsity and junior varsity, and girls' varsity Ultimate teams. The Stuyvesant Cross Country team has been Public Schools Athletic League Cross Country City Champions in 2004 and 2005. In 2000, Stuyvesant added a varsity ice hockey team, the first public school in New York City history to do so, it was run without administrative assistance by the students. They have been in first place in their Chelsea Piers league almost every year, though they often play teams from outside the league. Stuyvesant does not, however, have a football field, baseball field, or tennis court, though the new building does have a pool. [31]

===Academic Teams=== Its academic teams include speech and debate, Quiz Bowl, chess, science olympiad, and math, which regularly compete successfully at major regional, national, and — at least in the case of the math team — international tournaments. A FIRST Robotics team (694), called Stuypulse, [32] was founded in 2000 and has since won the New York City Regional ('03), and the New York Chairman's Award ('05). Stuyvesant also has a Model United Nations, a JSA (Junior State of America) chapter, and a Model Congress team which compete at regional colleges.

===SING!=== The annual theater competition known as SING! pits seniors, juniors, and "soph-frosh" (freshmen and sophomores working together) against each other in a race to put on the best performance. SING! started as a small event over 30 years ago, and has grown to a huge school-wide event — in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, produced, and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from cast, chorus, Irish Jig, Bollywood Dance, Latin Dance, and tech crews. SING! begins in late November and culminates in final performances on three nights in March/April. The show sells out all three nights, raising over $30,000 for the Stuyvesant's Clubs and Pubs via the Student Union Budget. In 2004, the SU introduced singtix.com [33] to sell tickets and merchandise for the event. This website allowed students to bypass the anuual "running of the bulls," the tradition in which students would run down a hallway to be the first in line to buy the best SING! tickets.

Student body

Main article: Stuyvesant High School student body
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Students entering through the Tribeca bridge

The student body at Stuyvesant has historically been heavily Jewish, with Asian students beginning to make an influx in the 1970s. As of 2005 the student body was approximately 51 percent Asian and 38 percent Caucasian, with Blacks and Hispanics each constituting roughly four percent of the population apiece. [34] Russian and Indian students are well-represented, and Jews continue to comprise a large portion of the student body. About 30% of the incoming freshman class are immigrants to the United States, while 20% are first-generation Americans. [35] As of 2005, the most common countries of origin of immigrant students were China, Russia, and Bangladesh. Stuyvesant possesses a disproportionate amount of historical minorities in comparison to national and local population distributions. [3] [4] (See also Demographics of New York City)

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Stuyvesant High School people

Stuyvesant has produced a steady stream of professional mathematicians, including more leading figures in the field than are associated with most leading universities. A number of leading physicists and chemists are also Stuyvesant alumni, as well as several well known entertainers and authors.

Stuyvesant alumni include four Nobel laureates:

See also Category:Stuyvesant High School alumni

Feeder patterns and admissions

All New York City students entering high school must apply to schools, as there are no zoning boundaries for high schools in New York City. Therefore there are no feeder schools of Stuyvesant.

The New York City Specialized Science High Schools Admissions Test (NYCSSHAT) is offered to all eighth and ninth graders in New York City. The results of the test determine whether a student gets into New York City's specialized science high schools, including Stuyvesant.

While most students in Stuyvesant reside in New York City, it's also worth mentioning that due to the school's great academic reputation, there are also an unknown number of students from outside of New York. These students often take the NYCSSHAT as city residents to gain admission into Stuyvesant, but then move to New Jersey or Long Island after their acceptance. Since city regulation prevents Stuyveant from accepting non-city residents, these students usually remain quiet about the true location of their residence.

Faculty scholarship

Frank McCourt taught English at Stuyvesant before the publication of his novels Angela's Ashes (ISBN 068484267X), 'Tis (ISBN 0684865742), and Teacher Man (ISBN 0743243773). Other faculty publications include physics teacher Eugene Majewski's Earthquake Thermodynamics & Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior (ISBN 0126851859), and chemistry teacher Sasha Alcott's Roadmap to the Regents: Physical Setting/Chemistry (ISBN 0375763082).

Papers written by Stuyvesant faculty include:

  • Reducing Radicals in Nitrate Solution: the NO3- System Revisited by Benjamin Dreyfus (physics teacher) et al. Pub: American Chemical Society
  • Magnetic irreversibly line in I intercalated Bi by Gregor Winkel (physics/music teacher) et al Pub: '95 Elsevier Science
  • Stimulated Acceleration and Confinement of Deuterons in Focused Discharges by Honorio Esper (physics teacher) et al pub: '88 IEEE
  • A Study of Graphic Representations of Thermodynamic Relations by Zhen-Chuan Li (chemistry teacher) not yet published

John Avallone (physics teacher) is the holder of U.S. patent 5,919,182

In pop culture

The Stuyvesant High School building in Battery Park City was one of the main settings of the film Hackers, although it was not mentioned by name. As in the film, Stuyvesant has no pool on the roof, despite a long history of seniors selling "rooftop pool passes" to new freshmen. In a season-5 two-part episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, "In the Wee Small Hours (Season 5, episode 6/7)," a female Stuyvesant student is murdered. The investigation leads Detectives Goren and Eames to the school, where they interview her classmates. The 2004 Tribeca Film Festival featured an ad campaign with a stylized depiction of the school entitled "Fast Times at Stuyvesant High." Also, the entrance to the high school is visible in the Beastie Boys' music video for the song Ch-Check It Out. It is seen in the beginning of the video, where the three rappers are walking down the TriBeCa Bridge.

One of the members of the Beastie Boys in the 'Fight For Your Right (To Party)' music video is wearing a boy's red Stuyvesant High School Physical Education Leader T-shirt. This has occasionally sparked a rumor that one or all of the Boys attended Stuyvesant. They did not, however Kate Schellenbach '83, the band's original drummer, did.

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  32. ^ "Stuvesant Robotics 694". Retrieved 2006-03-08.
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