Education

The East Hampton Level Playing Field Foundation will provide scholarships to students for help with applications, essay coaching, test preparation, and other aspects of college admissions.

Children’s summer art classes have returned to the Bridgehampton Museum, there's a break-dancing showcase in Sag Harbor, and much more for kids and teens this week.

A group of high schoolers, biking in the woods, come across a group of abandoned buildings. Sound like the beginning of a film? That’s exactly how it began for Fin Wrazej, a rising senior at Grace Church School in Manhattan and longtime Springs resident, whose "discovery" of the dilapidated Brooks-Park house and studios in the Springs woods sparked the idea for a short documentary.

Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, who established the Bridgehampton School's agricultural education program, was named New York State's agriculture teacher of the year, and received a national award for excellence from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2016, is retiring from the school after the board voted last month to eliminate her position.

It was a hopeful scene at a basketball camp full of wide-eyed youngsters from New York City and the East End, who had paid $350 for a full day of rubbing shoulders with three very tall men who are or were paid lots of money to play professional basketball.

A photography contest for teens, art classes at the Victor D'Amico Institute, stories and songs at CMEE, tumbling and skateboarding, and more for kids and teens.

The Sag Harbor School District this week released a detailed plan for improvements at Mashashimuet Park, a private, nonprofit group that has partnered for decades with the schools for student-athletes' use of the fields and facilities. Stakeholders are hoping the community will back a bond referendum later this year to pay for the upgrades.

The theme running through East Hampton High School's graduation ceremony this year was that of caring for one's mental health, as has been a focus at the school for many years now. More than 200 seniors earned diplomas on Friday in a celebration filled with smiles, laughter, and cheers. Here are some scenes from the joy-filled evening.

Seventy-one seniors graduated from Pierson High School on Saturday in a ceremony filled with all the pomp-and-circumstance that a traditional Whaler ceremony entails, including the "alma mater" school song, cap-toss at the top of Pierson Hill, and wise remarks from a speaker prominent in the Sag Harbor community.

Lights up on center stage — summer means showtime for kids and teens who want to immerse themselves in the performing arts. Four regional institutions can help students become a triple or quadruple threat, with acting, dancing, singing, and all sorts of stagecraft.

Elle Reidlinger, a sixth grader at the Montauk School, recently received an honorable mention award — equivalent to second place — at the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Elementary School Science Fair for a project on Fort Pond's bacteria.

The East Hampton School Board on Tuesday approved a new five-year agreement with the district’s teachers, granting pay raises, dictating their share of health insurance costs, and clarifying components of prior years’ contracts.

Saturday’s concert at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will feature the Hannah Marks Quartet leading a journey through jazz history for children and their families.

Morgan Johnson Quamina, a 2022 Ross School graduate, is headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall to study math, but she was also accepted at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Northwestern, Duke, and Boston University — all among the top 30 colleges with the lowest publicized 2022 acceptance rates — and at Princeton, the University of Chicago, the University of Connecticut, University of North Carolina, and the State University at Binghamton.

Twelve Bridgehampton High School seniors earned diplomas on Saturday in a ceremony filled with inspirational words and advice along with well-wishes and warm moments of humor.

More than 40 Pierson High School seniors are facing disciplinary action after pulling off a "prank" on Monday night, Sag Harbor School District's chief school administrator confirmed this week.

The fact that Our Fabulous Variety Show’s latest tap-dance production happens to coincide almost exactly with Juneteenth is not intentional, but it does, perhaps, make it a good time to talk about the origins of tap dancing.

The East End Fund for Children, a coalition of seven local nonprofits dedicated to meeting the needs of the community’s most vulnerable, will once again partner with Citarella, the gourmet food market, in a fund-raising campaign between June 23 and Labor Day weekend.

Drag queen story hour, summer reading at libraries, movie screenings, and more fun stuff coming up for kids and teens.

Two major transitions at the Springs School this year, a return to a nine-period schedule and the implementation of a “restorative justice” discipline policy, have met or exceeded expectations, school officials reported during a school board meeting on Tuesday.

James Farrell of East Hampton and Troy Remkus of Sag Harbor are the latest local teens to achieve the highest honor the Boy Scouts community has to offer — that of the Eagle Scout.

The nonprofit organization East End Arts presented the annual Teeny Awards on Sunday to students named outstanding performers in school plays and musicals, including four from the South Fork.

Andrea Rivera Sagbay and Joey Suter of East Hampton High School have received prestigious scholarships in recognition of their achievements.

Parents and guardians of students who attend the Springs School and John M. Marshall Elementary School can now register their children for Project Most's after-school program for the 2022-23 school year.

When DanceHampton embarks on its annual recital and competition showcase this weekend, Kelly Hren will celebrate two milestones: the 15th anniversary of her East Hampton dance studio and the graduation of her daughter, Emma Hren, the studio’s only senior, who has been dancing there since its inception.

This week's activities for kids and teens include a virtual visit with Carl Hiaasen, an award-winning YA author, as well as dance shows, games, Fathers Day crafts, and a "Big Bubble Bonanza."

This weekend it's house lights down, stage lights up for the students of South Fork Performing Arts, who will present the plays "Shuddersome: Tales of Poe" and "Peter and the Starcatcher" at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

Applications are open for New York State's Excelsior Scholarship, through which students from families that earn up to $125,000 in annual, adjusted gross income can attend two or four-year public colleges in the state tuition-free.

At noon on Thursday, students across the nation, including at East Hampton High School, walked out of their schools to send a message on gun control to elected officials: "Enough is enough."

In the aftermath of the racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo on May 14, the New York State Education Department announced this week that it is canceling this year's Regents exam in United States history because of concerns that some of the test's content "has the potential to compound student trauma caused by the violence in Buffalo, which created an unexpected and unintended context for the planned assessment."