Richland Northeast High School

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RNE: the place to be—see why

As of June 2010, SIX consecutive times on Newsweek's list of Best High Schools in America!

Military? New to RNE? Come to our New Military Family Open House on July 27! Info here.

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Recipient of a South Carolina Department of Education ACT/SAT Performance Improvement Award (ASPI). RNE won the Summa Cum Laude Award for Excellent Improvement for an increase in composite score that exceeds the state average over three years.

Summer 2010 reading and assignments
Summer information
Favorite reads from the RNE faculty
The 2010 yearbook is here. Copies are available for $65 each. Information: Nina Brook, nbrook@richland2.org or ext. 79808
Beginning in August 2010, all Richland Two student drivers who want a parking sticker must first take the National Safety Council's Alive@25 early-intervention driving course. Register at www.scaliveat25.org or 732-6778. Information: alive@25_faqs.pdf. Schedule: www.richland2.org/rnh/downloads/alive@25_sched2010.pdf.

Summer school information

News . . .

The South Carolina Association of Student Councils named RNE Principal Ralph Schmidt its Administrator of the Year!

The video of poet-in-residence Matthew Dickman is airing on www.richland2.org – click on R2TV on Demand, then click on New in Two and scroll way down to "RNE Welcomes Poet."

Click, shop—and support your school: When you use this Amazon link to buy books and other stuff, every cent that comes back to RNE helps fund extra programs, new equipment, student resources, and more.

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RNE held its fourth annual New Military Family Open House on July 27, drawing a number of families from Fort Jackson. Col. Kevin Shwedo, shown with Ralph Schmidt, also attended the informal reception, during which several dozen newly enrolled military students and their families mingled with staff members and current students and took a tour of the campus.

It's all good . . .

The National Council for the Social Studies has named RNE's Charles Vaughan, a social studies teacher who also teaches in the iLink magnet program, its 2010 Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year.
RNE was one of 600 top-rated high schools chosen by Google in 2010 to receive five computers. Though Google suggested that four of the laptops go to high-achieving math students and one to a math teacher, RNE opted to give all five to math students Wesley Robinson, Juan Castro Luis, Keanyn Brannon Smalls, Quyelle Brand, and Chris Amaker. The award's goal is to encourage students to pursue education in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
David Pietras and the RNE Cabinetmaking Department received a $1100 Educational Opportunity Grant from the American Association of Woodturners.
Nothing beats school spirit: The RNE Education Foundation thanks Key Club for its $250 donation. Key Club raised the money at its Applebee's breakfast.
PCA Creative Writing Senior Sara Simpson is first runner-up in the South Carolina Archibald Rutledge Creative Writing Competition. Named for the state's first poet laureate, the scholarship is open to all South Carolina high school seniors.
Thank you to Books-a-Million at Sandhill, Happy Cafe, Lillian's, and CiCi's at Sandhill for supporting our Book Night.
The Alexander Hamilton Friends Association has awarded Jessie Johnson its 2010 Alexander Hamilton Citizenship Achievement Gold Award.
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded German teacher Janelle Bondor a grant to study and develop class materials in Berlin. The RNE Education Foundation recently awarded a grant to Bondor to develop a library for our German students.
Our Model United Nations team reclaimed the number one position at the National High School Model UN conference in New York City. RNE's team took the Award of Distinction at the conference, which included 150 teams from across the country plus 20 foreign countries and more than 2,300 delegates. Read more!
For the first time in its history, the Palmetto Dramatics Association awarded its three top playwriting awards to one school: ours. RNE's Palmetto Center for the Arts Theatre students competed at the event, held jointly with the South Carolina Thespians, at USC Aiken in March. Read all about it!
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