Author: RCCA (RCCA )

  It’s that time of year! Roberto Clemente Seniors are getting ready for final college decisions and weighing their options. They have been exploring the ins and outs of financial aid award letters with our ISAC (Illinois Student Assistance Commission) representative, Vanessa Del Real. ISAC is an organization through the State of Illinois that connects...

On March 3rd, Clemente Juniors took a trip to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). This was not your average college trip. Students were assigned homework for a college-level lecture a week in advance. In their English and Social Science classes, juniors read and analyzed the article assigned by their professor for the day,...

Biology students are finishing up their unit on DNA and heredity by researching a genetic disease to present to their class. For the genetic disease research project, students will provide a detailed description of the genetic disease they chose including the genes impacted by the disease and how the disease is inherited. After students complete...

by Monserrat Soria On Friday, March 10th, my classmates and I had an amazing opportunity to go to the Newberry Library and work with real life documents from WWII. This opportunity only comes once in a lifetime, and I’m personally very grateful that I got to work with documents that were published during that time...

Last Saturday, our cadet Archers competed in the long-awaited archery tournament, hosted right in their home court. Clemente’s JROTC Archery Tournament is not only the largest archery tournament in Chicago; it is also a special homecoming for graduated archers. This year, 16 schools comprised of over 500 archers participated. Archery is a unique sport where...

  Clemente students Jaden Knox and Delana Lee perform their original rap “The British are Coming”   Sabtecha Contreras, 10th grade: My experience at Hamilton was way more interesting and worthy than I thought it would be. I figured it would be cool but I was not quite so convinced when Ms. Seemann was talking...

  Junior physics students are getting out of their winter hibernation and straight into high-energy building. After discussing the details of energy transformation during this unit in physics classes, students began to investigate the impacts mass, gravity, height, friction, air resistance, and other outside factors have on extreme roller coaster builds. Students worked through online...

  Here at Roberto Clemente Community Academy, we like to guide and advise our graduating seniors to a wide variety of options when it comes to post-secondary opportunities. One of the options we offer to our students is to apply to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). We have found that this institution offers...

Freshmen students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy are learning more about possible career opportunities for after high school this week in their Algebra I course. Students started off the week completing a career interest inventory, which is designed to help students see what types of careers would best fit their interests. Many students were surprised...