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Groundbreaking for Liberty Science Center High School
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The STEM-focused magnet school for Hudson County is set to open in 2025
Leaders in Jersey City Monday morning held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Liberty Science Center High School, set to open in the fall of 2025. The magnet school will be located next to the existing Liberty Science Center near the waterfront and focus on STEM education for about 400 students in grades 9-12 throughout Hudson County.
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Groundbreaking for Liberty Science Center High School
Clip: 5/1/2023 | 1m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
Leaders in Jersey City Monday morning held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Liberty Science Center High School, set to open in the fall of 2025. The magnet school will be located next to the existing Liberty Science Center near the waterfront and focus on STEM education for about 400 students in grades 9-12 throughout Hudson County.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipHudson County kids are about to get a first of its kind High School leaders in Jersey City this morning held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Liberty Science Center High School set to open in the fall of 2025. the magnet school will be located next to the existing Science Center near the Waterfront there and focus on stem education for about 400 students in grades 9 through 12 throughout Hudson County the high school is just one part of a 30-acre scitec City Campus being launched in Jersey City to grow technology and science companies now as part of it students will get access to mentorships and other work experiences with those tech companies it's all a way to reimagine what a public high school education looks like this High School will train you and really it will be up to this this individual student you know you want to go into a program you want to be in sustainable engineering but we hope that students that come from this high school will win Nobel prizes you know they'll discover the first twin earth life elsewhere they may make that key breakthrough in Battery Technology that finally allows you know electric cars to be ubiquitous and all of them to have them they may came up with other solutions for reversing global warming and sea level rise we hope you hear about these students because they make the discoveries of tomorrow [Music] [Music]
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