The Plains, Virginia — Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School proudly celebrates its Rocketry Team for earning 80th place at the 2026 American Rocketry Challenge National Finals, held in The Plains, Virginia. This outstanding achievement places TEECS among the top student rocketry teams in the nation. In 2026, a...
The Wisconsin Rocket Competition was an incredible experience and a true test of engineering, teamwork, and perseverance for our Rocketry Club. This was not just building a rocket — it was real rocket science. Before even qualifying to compete in Wisconsin, our students successfully completed a...
On Saturday, May 2nd, our school proudly hosted the Elementary Science Olympiad with participation from three other schools. Students enthusiastically took part in eight engaging STEM events, including Bridge Building, Straw Tower, Paper Rocket, Elements Compounds Mixtures, and several other hands-on challenges that fostered teamwork,...
X-Stream Team Earns 41st Place at International Championship After Progressing through Regional and State Competitions Somerset, NJ — May 2026 — The Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School (TEECS) proudly announces that its VEX IQ Robotics Team, X-Stream, has achieved an exceptional milestone at the VEX IQ...
Congratulations to the TEECS American Rocketry Club of Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School for advancing to the Top 100 National Finals of the 2026 American Rocketry Challenge! We proudly celebrate Coach Mr. Ben and student team members Avyaya, Shaun, Haris, Conrad, and Levent for this outstanding...
Booked and busy! The TEECS High School Model UN team has been on the move these past few days, competing at not one—but TWO conferences! From March 18th–21st, 24 of our delegates traveled to New York City to participate in NHSMUN, one of the largest and...
We are thrilled to share that the Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School VEX IQ Elementary Team, X-Stream, has qualified for the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship! The 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship will take place from April 21–30, 2026, at the America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis, Missouri. This prestigious event...
On March 14th, Pi Day, two of TEECS students Latif and Ritvik attended the 16th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference at Princeton University (https://ewh.ieee.org/conf/stem/). In this conference, we had two papers accepted: 1. One supervised by Mr. Christian in Computational Realization of Galactic Morphology: An interactive...
Congratulations to our amazing students who represented TEECS at the FBLA State Leadership Conference (SLC) 2026! This year marked TEECS’ first time attending this incredible event, and our students made us extremely proud throughout the three-day conference. A special congratulations goes to Melis and Sahasra, who...
Congratulations to TEECS Middle School Science Olympiad Team on an outstanding performance at the New Jersey State Science Olympiad Finals held at Middlesex College on Monday, March 9! Science Olympiad begins with three regional competitions, where a select number of schools qualify to advance to the...