Extracurricular Clubs
The high school currently has many ongoing clubs and activities, including a Model United Nations club and a Forensics Speech and Debate Team. In the past, the Forensics team has had National Championship qualifiers, as well as numerous state champions and one national champion. The school also has an Academic Team and Math League.
BRHS also is the home of Team 303 in the FIRST Robotics Competition, Panther Robotics. At the 2007 FIRST Robotics Challenge World Championships in Atlanta, GA, Team 303 ranked 23 in their division out of the 1500+ teams from across the globe that had attended the event. At the 2010 New Jersey Regional Competition, Team 303 were semifinalists. In the 2011 season the team won both the New Jersey and Philadelphia Regional Competitions, and were division quarter-finalists at the championships in St. Louis.
The school's honor societies include the National Honor Society and various language Honors Societies.
In the past decade, the high school has expanded its Peer Mediation program, training approximately 100 new mediators a year and student conflicts have followed a consistent downward trend since the program's inception.
The school's mock trial team has made the county playoffs in the annual tournament and achieved the Somerset County Title in 2005.
The Weightlifting Club includes over 60 trainees and several trainers. In the past there have also been BRHS delegations that participated in weightlifting and powerlifting competitions.
BRHS has two Envirothon teams which operate through the school but are almost entirely student-run. They joined the competition in the 2006 season. In the 2008, BRHS expanded to include a second team. Later that year Team One finished first in the New Jersey division and earned 14th out of 55 in The Canon Envirothon (which includes teams from the U.S. and Canada). In the 2009 season, Team One earned 6th and Team Two earned 11th at the New Jersey regional.
In addition to the Envirothon team, BRHS has a Science Olympiad team which had placed 6th regionally at the Princeton University Regional Competition. At states, they placed at the top 20 teams in 2009. The club is run by students along with an advisor.
BRTV is a school television program, produced in the school's television studio, that goes out live on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The schedule is: Tuesday - Panther Power Plays; Wednesday - What's up Wednesday; and Friday - BRHS News. Media Communications, an elective, also uses the studio.
BRHS recently created a Science Bowl Team, which has competed in the 2011 and 2012 New Jersey Regional High School Science Bowls held at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
The school's Physics Forum hosts talks from physicists and other scientists who use physics extensively in their work. Past speakers include Dr. Michael Strauss, professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, and Dr. John Parsons, professor of particle physics at Columbia University and collaborator on the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. All talks are open to the public.
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