It seems as though Durham Public Schools has systematically boycotted Hillside. You have now bred a herd of discarded talent.

I just know that the schools out of the other divisions seem to have a lot of talent now. I don't know if that's the way it's gonna be for the future. It's possible North Mississippi might have been a little bit down.

This program is another way in which we are working with local high schools and universities to develop future talent for our organization here on Long Island. We hope this program will help us generate more interest in the sciences from the junior and senior high school level to develop tomorrow's aerospace industry leaders.

It's strictly 1A schools from here, and I think by the end of the year we can be one of the better 1A schools. We may not have won conference since 1998, but we've won three state championships since then. That's what we're shooting for now.

If we hadn't fought for them, our schools would have received an amount so low it would have again required cutting calendar days and other devastating cuts,

We are at a disadvantage to the larger high schools. At times, I feel like we really haven't been completely prepared for college.