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Students Create Roller Coasters For the past month, students have been studying energy transfer in the context of amusement parks. They have created their own roller coasters, through which they were able to prove the law of conservation of energy. Now that students have grasped the idea of energy transfer in an amusement park, we...

DePaul University Quick Facts By Omar Ortega Located in Chicago, DePaul University is a private, nonprofit university with ten unique colleges and schools within its system. Founded by Vincentian Roman Catholics in 1898, DePaul became the largest Catholic university (by the number of students) in the United States exactly one hundred years later in 1998....

Student-Led Inquiry This week, students in Miss Schibelka’s World Studies class are working on a project for which they get to study a problem in their society, the systems that are contributing to it, and possible solutions to the issue. The project includes a research component and the creation and presentation of a PowerPoint displaying...

Decision Day 2015 by Ashley Munive This past Wednesday, seniors at Roberto Clemente Community Academy celebrated Decision Day 2015. All seniors who committed to a postsecondary plan (including universities, colleges, the armed forces, and career and technical schools) announced their decisions to their peers in a special ceremony. As part of the all-day events, students...

Exploring the Gas Laws This unit, sophomore students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy studied the properties of gases. Students investigated Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, the Ideal Gas Law, and Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressure through a combination of hands on activities and virtual labs. The summative assessment for this unit involved students designing their own...

By: Savannah Venegas This past Saturday, on April 18, 2015 Clemente Academy High School students and staff set out on a mission to rid the environment of its litter! Clemente staff, teachers, as well as students turned out for the annual Clean & Green. Everyone arrived around 9:30 a.m. We then sat down to discuss...

DEVELOPING NEW SKILLS AND CELEBRATING IN THE COMMUNITY! THAT’S WHAT WILDCATS JROTC CADETS DO!!! Roberto Clemente JROTC Cadets had a very busy weekend March 28-29. By Captain Barbara Jimenez-Soriano, Communications Officer On Saturday morning, 24 JROTC Cadets awoke before the sunrise on a cool and crisp morning to participate in the first Orienteering Meet of...

Spotlight by Laura Taylor Spelman College is a Black, all women’s college located in Atlanta, Georgia and was rated one of the best liberal arts schools by US News and World Report. The school was founded on April 11th, 1881 by a woman named Sophia B. Packard. The school’s original name was Atlanta Baptist Female...

JROTC Supports the 2015 Greek Day Parade Twenty-five JROTC Cadets woke early on a very blustery, cold and overcast Sunday morning in order to report to a 9 AM Cadet-led formation. For some of the Cadets, it followed an even earlier 6:30 a.m. formation the day before to attend orienteer training in one of the...

Exploring Islam at Clemente According to CNN.com, “Islam is the second largest and the fastest growing religion in the world.” However, many people in the United States know very little about Islam. In World Religions, a pilot IB Diploma Programme course, juniors at Roberto Clemente Community Academy examine the key beliefs of Islam through the...