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Personal Project Day As the weather gets warmer, it becomes a good reminder for our sophomores that their Personal Project’s due date is nearing. As an IB school, it is a requirement for all sophomores to complete a personal project which is designed to encourage students to practice and strengthen their approaches to learning (ATL)...

Sophomore Students Begin Discovering Geometry is Related to Farming and Gardening Sophomore students at Clemente have been exploring Geometry related to sustainable food options such as farming and gardening. They have been applying the concepts of area, perimeter, Pythagorean Theorem and Distance Formula to real-world situation in order to gain a broader perspective of where...

Artistic Wildcats Street art is a very popular form of art that can be found around the world. For this unit, the students in Art I have been learning about different street artists and their own interpretation of it. They have learned about street artists Mark Jenkins, Peeta, Shaka, and Banksy, and applied their knowledge...

Spotlight by Veronica Butron Located in Chicago, Malcolm X College is a community college with a focus on adult education and continuing education. Malcolm X College was one of the first Chicago City Colleges when it opened as Crane Junior College in 1911. The school was renamed in 1969, and one of Malcolm X’s cars...

Do Teamwork Challenges Help Math Skills? By Alfredo Figueroa and Peter Rios In Algebra, we have been doing teamwork challenges once a week. In one challenge we worked together to build a tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows. For a couple weeks, we did yoga poses which helps keep us calm. We tried to stack...

ACT Testing: Done! Last week, the hard work from our juniors finally paid as they took the ACT on Tuesday. Students woke up bright and early and ready to succeed on Tuesday morning. At school, juniors were greeted with a catered breakfast served to them by their biggest motivators, the administration and teachers. For students,...

Dueling Accounts of the Sierra Leone Civil War In 9th grade World Studies classes, we are focusing on the Sierra Leone Civil War. We are reading two novels intermittently; A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier and The Bite of the Mango. Both of these novels are from the perspective of teenagers. A...

Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a 4 year university located in Dekalb, Illinois. It has a total student population of 21,138. For students who live in Illinois, the cost of tuition is only $13,636, although out-of-state students pay $22,914. The school has a number of sports teams for men and women in...

University Spotlight: Pace University Pace University is a private school located in New York City with other campuses in White Plains, Westchester County, Pleasantville, and Briarcliff Manor. Pace offers a variety of both undergraduate and graduate degrees specializing in business, liberal arts, and law. Some of the most popular majors at Pace are: Business Management,...

Student Offered Full Ride to Howard University at Siemens College Fair A selection of junior and seniors student attended the Siemens College Fair which is an annual event that helps students gain admissions to historically black colleges and universities. In addition to admission, this fair aims to provide students with the scholarships and funding needed...