About
THE SCIENCE SURVEY NEWSPAPER
The Science Survey is the award-winning student newspaper of The Bronx High School of Science, and it has been published continuously since our high school was founded in 1938. It is planned, researched, written, edited, and designed entirely by students as part of the elective ‘Journalism: Newspaper & Yearbook’ class, and it is published exclusively in an online edition that as of July 2024 has around 482,000 individual readers over the past year, from all over the world.
MISSION OF THE SCIENCE SURVEY
We strive to provide information that is accurate, thorough, and unbiased. We aim to enlighten as well as to inform, and we seek to intellectually engage our readers. We wish to serve as a journalistic voice for our diverse student body, and we strive to achieve the highest degree of journalistic integrity, both in our written articles and in our photojournalism.
OBSERVATORY YEARBOOK
The students in the elective ‘Journalism: Newspaper & Yearbook’ class also create the school’s yearbook, The Observatory. After seventy-five years of printing The Observatory yearbook solely as a bound hardcover, we took the yearbook journalism program online in the fall of 2016, opening up an entire new world of journalistic possibility! Technology and journalism have increasingly migrated online in the real world, and we wish to follow suit, as our students deserve no less. The yearbook still prints as a hardcover the way that it has always been done, but our online site serves to supplement and to enrich the journalism program at The Bronx High School of Science by giving our students real world experience in managing an online newspaper website, in working under deadline pressure, in learning WordPress (the industry standard for websites and blogs), and in taking journalistic photographs of the highest quality.
JOURNALISM AWARDS: NEWSPAPER & YEARBOOK
As befits a school for gifted students, The Observatory yearbook is legendary in its respective field. Over the past few years, The Bronx High School of Science yearbook, The Observatory, has won First Place Awards with Special Merit from The American Scholastic Press Association, Gold Medals from The Columbia Scholastic Press Association with additional All-Columbia Honors in Concept, Coverage, Writing, and Photography (winning the highest honors possible in four out of five categories), and First Class Honor Ratings from The National Scholastic Press Association. These are the three most prestigious high school student journalism competitions in the country, and The Observatory has taken the top publishing prizes in all three competitions. For five of the past seven years, it has had an award-winning yearbook spread featured in Jostens’ Look Book, an industry standard design reference guide used by high schools, colleges, and universities nationwide, one of only 435 yearbooks from across the country so honored with publication in this hardcover book.
The Bronx High School of Science’s yearbook, The Observatory, recently won a First Place Award from The American Scholastic Press Association, a Silver Medal from The Columbia Scholastic Press Association (missing Gold by 10 points out of 1,000 total), and a First Class Honor Rating from The National Scholastic Press Association. These are the three most prestigious high school student journalism competitions in the country, and The Observatory has taken the top publishing prizes in two of the three competitions!
The Bronx High School of Science’s newspaper, The Science Survey, has won a Second Place Award from The American Scholastic Press Association, a Gold Medal from The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and a First Class Honor Rating from The National Scholastic Press Association. These are three of the most prestigious high school student journalism competitions in the country, and The Science Survey has taken the top publishing prizes in two of the three competitions!
