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Boys Basketball Finish Conference Season with a Win! On Wednesday, the boys basketball team wrapped up the 2015-2016 conference season with a win against Collins Academy, the second best team in the conference. Clemente ended up in 4th place within their conference. The boys won 63-57 in overtime at Clemente. Junior Joe Rhymes led the...

The College Application Experience by Adonijah Scarlett College can be a difficult experience for most students and the toughest part of it seemed to be the application process. This started junior year and did not end until the middle of senior year. Our Wildcats have received numerous brochures, college tour opportunities, emails from admissions officers,...

Basketball Quadratics! This week in College Algebra at Roberto Clemente Community Academy, students used their knowledge of parabolas to predict the movement of a ball through a hoop. Students watched a Dan Meyer video on how throwing a basketball into a hoop relates to the graph of a parabola. Next, students analyzed the different parts...

Engineering Innovation As the physics students have progressed through Ms. Roland’s class, their projects have done the same. Students are finally getting the chance to showcase what they have learned through the creation of their own, personal Rube Goldberg machine. “A Rube Goldberg is a lot of everything,” says junior Alejandro Morales, “There are a...

By: Lisette Pastoriza This week in Chef L’s Culinary Arts class we learned how to make cinnamon rolls. It was really fun, but we had a lot to learn before we even stepped foot in the kitchen. First, we had to know all about safety and sanitation in the kitchen. We saw some videos of...

The Art of Fundraising The Art 1 freshman students are working hard to raise funds for new art supplies and explore the impact of marketing and product development. Students are creating artwork through the Square 1 Art Fundraiser for the next month to learn about the real world skills of fundraising. They are using their...

The Art of Fundraising The Art 1 freshman students are working hard to raise funds for new art supplies and explore the impact of marketing and product development. Students are creating artwork through the Square 1 Art Fundraiser for the next month to learn about the real world skills of fundraising. They are using their...

Exploring Infinity by Danielle Leibowitz 10th grade Geometry teacher This week in Geometry, students explored the concept of infinity. The unit we are in is about polygons, so we extended our understandings of polygons to ask if a circle should be considered a polygon. To help students construct an argument for this question, they were...

My Experience with Project Prepare By Nicholas Ramos There are many things I have experienced in Project Prepare at Roberto Clemente Community Academy over the last couple of months, and thanks to Amy and Sarah it has been smooth sailing. For starters, what is Project Prepare? Project Prepare is a program to assist students in...

My Experience with Project Prepare By Nicholas Ramos There are many things I have experienced in Project Prepare at Roberto Clemente Community Academy over the last couple of months, and thanks to Amy and Sarah it has been smooth sailing. For starters, what is Project Prepare? Project Prepare is a program to assist students in...