Lip Balms: Student Favorites at BCA
At BCA, it is common to see students applying lip products in class, and even carrying them around with them everywhere they go. There is a large variety of lip products, such as lip gloss, lipstick,...
View ArticleMeet the New Chef: Chef Jerel Dam Jhocson
Chef Jerel joined Bergen County Academies as the new culinary instructor for the Academy for Culinary Arts and Hospitality Administration in September of 2024. Interestingly, he also attended BCA as a...
View ArticlePrint Week 2025
Print Week at Bergen County Academies (BCA) is a highly anticipated event curated by the students and teachers of the Visual Arts Academy. It showcases the incredible work produced throughout the year,...
View ArticleWould You Fear? Turkiye 1980-1981
The year is 1980, tensions have built and now leftist, rightist, and Islamist parties are launching terror attacks on each other in Turkiye (Turkey). Then, on the 12th of September 1980, the military...
View ArticleClub Getaway: BCA’s Annual Freshman Trip
The entrance sign when you enter Club Getaway. From September 4th to 6th, the class of 2028 freshmen at BCA traveled to the annual freshman overnight trip, Club Getaway, which kicked the school year...
View ArticleBCA Research EXPO 2025
At Bergen County Academies, students have access to a wide range of opportunities, one of the most valuable being the chance to engage in hands-on research and explore their academic interests in...
View ArticleWriting: the Joy, the Agony, and the Reality
Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” What Hemingway did not note was that, for the average person, writing expressively and...
View ArticleVideo Games vs. Board Games:
The ultimate battle against Video Games vs. Board Games began at Bergen County Academies amongst the students with a survey that the Academy Chronicle launched to the students. At BCA, a passion for...
View ArticleBCA Takes on DECA SCDC 2025: A Recap of the Conference
From March 4th to March 6th, BCA students from the Academy of Business and Finance traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to compete at the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) State Career...
View ArticleAI’s Growth is Accelerating. How Will Education Adapt?
The year 2024 saw unprecedented growth in artificial intelligence: new innovations included models that could generate breathtaking videos, and others that could reason with quasi-human intelligence....
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