Education

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.