It’s been a very good year for Suffern High School. As the school year winds down, students are not only preparing for the Regents Exams but Prom — as well as participating in those final year-end projects. But this long school year has produced many notable successes, if not much winter weather.

In March, the Suffern Mounties boys hockey team played a thrilling game of come-from-behind to win its first NY Division 1 State Champion hockey title in 20 years. The girls’ basketball team steamrolled through sectionals and regionals in November into the state Class AA final four championship round, led by senior Elizabeth Flaherty.

More Suffern sports highlights can be found here and here.

Led by orchestra wizard and Sloatsburg resident Daniel McCarter, along with play director Christine Defeo, Suffern’s musical talents wowed audiences during this year’s spring musical with a big-time production of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Julia Castle mesmerized as Mrs. Lovett while David Stedge projected menacing, murderous rage to the madman Sweeney role.

Two Suffern High School debate teams scored trophies at the 2012 Rockland County high school championships. The annual event brings together “some of the brightest kids in Rockland County” as well as those from Westchester county schools, according to Suffern High School Debate Club advisor and AP English/Constitutional Law teacher Dr. Robert Wilson.

Suffern High School juniors Paige Bergstol, Blair Croce, Geena DiGiacomo, Amanda Gerzog and Jillian Stella won third place in the Senior Group Website category at the National History Day State Finals in Cooperstown on April 23. More than 430 students from around New York State competed in the event. Suffern High School’s site, The Little Red Schoolhouse: A Story of Desegregation, was among roughly 100 Senior Group Website entries submitted to regional competitions in March.

Three Suffern High School seniors were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society during a ceremony hosted by Rockland BOCES Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC) on May 31. NTHS induction is the nation’s highest honor for excellence in career and technical education. To qualify, a student must maintain a 90 average or better in career education courses, demonstrate leadership and skill development, and be involved in school and/or community service.

The Suffern Syborgs finished 24th among the more than 2,000 international high school robotics teams who met in St. Louis, Missouri to compete in the First Tech Challenge 2012 World Championship April 24-29.

“We made it to the semi-finals and lost in the third match of a best-of-three elimination,” reports Suffern Syborgs advisor and Suffern High School math and engineering teacher George Mugno.

And now the Mountie mascot is in the running to win MSG Varsity Mascot Mad Dash Championship for best Hudson Valley high school mascot. The winning mascot receive a brand-new, top-of-line mascot costume. The prize for second place is a $3,000 credit for uniforms at Anaconda Sports; the school placing third will receive a new scorer’s table.

Suffern is currently 7th place, with some 4,100 votes. Top of the list right now is Malverne High School with some 13,000 votes. The contest runs until June 11 at 12 p.m. People can log on here to cast a vote for Suffern High School’s mascot. Vote early and vote often!

Find more school year highlights at Ramapo Central.org.

Source: Some photos and Suffern High School highlights courtesy of Jen Citrolo at Ramapo Central.