Italian Consulate General Tours Bergen Academies

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Italian Consulate General Francesco Genuardi visited Bergen County for the third time this week, with a pit stop in Hackensack.

Italian Consulate General Francesco Genuardi tests out the high-tech learning tools at Bergen Academies in Hackensack.
Photo Credit: *Contributed*

Bergen County officials gave Italian Consulate General Francesco Genuardi a tour of Bergen Academies.
Photo Credit: *Contributed*

Cecilia Levine

01/11/2018 7:22 p.m.

Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco and Freeholder Chairman Tom Sullivan brought him to tour the Bergen County Academies campus in Hackensack to showcase the innovative blue ribbon school, and its students and staff.

The Consulate General and the group met with faculty, discussed expanding study abroad opportunities, and received demonstrations of student-led projects including a student-built virtual reality simulation.

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