TEECS is a tuition-free K-7 charter school that will be relocating this fall to a new facility on Pierce Street in Somerset. It is the first school in New Jersey offering a green/renewable energy-focused curriculum. TEECS has an enrollment of 336 students that is expected...
A charter school with academic achievements that seem out of this world, ones that are NASA experiments that soar to the International Space Station. “When it comes back from the International Space Center we’re going to see the difference in microgravity to gravity,” said Principal Oguz Yildiz. Today, Gov....
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WABC) -- Charter schools are growing rapidly in New Jersey, and one charter school is among the top in the state. Governor Chris Christie is meeting with students at the Thomas Edison Energy Smart School, a school where robots and high-tech are...
Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School hosted the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program’s (SSEP) Mission 7 Odyssey Space Program. This Program offered a unique opportunity for students to design innovative experiments that were executed during spaceflight by NASA astronauts. As one of two schools in New Jersey participating...
Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School participated in the GLOBE-SMAP Program. TEECS is a registered GLOBE school. NASA launched an Earth-observing satellite called Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) on January 31, 2015, and students from TEECS actively participated to contribution to the protocol. Its purpose is...
FRANKLIN (Somerset) – Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School (TEECS) hosted the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program's (SSEP) Mission 7 Odyssey on Wednesday night at the Garden State Exhibition Center. SSEP offers a unique opportunity for students to design innovative experiments that will be executed during spaceflight by NASA astronauts....