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...
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Clemente Goes to Hamilton – Student Review
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...
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Ramping Up Roller Coasters
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...
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University of Illinois at Chicago
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...
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Freshmen Explore Post-secondary Opportunities
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...
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Clemente Boys Basketball Season Wraps Up!
The Clemente Boys Basketball Team finished their season with a Regional Semi Final loss to Perspectives Math and Science Academy. The conference rival, Perspectives, trailed in the final quarter but were able to come back and win the game to move on the Regional Final against Farragut High School at Clemente.The Clemente boys finished...
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Learning to Count…
Clemente’s College Algebra classes are currently in the throes of our unit on probability. A fundamental part of calculating probabilities is being able to count the number of ways something can be done. While seemingly simple, our Wildcats quickly found out that looks can be deceiving. This week, we viewed probability through the lense...
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Freshmen Explore the World of “Billy Shakes”
William Shakespeare, or “Billy Shakes” as he is affectionately known to the freshmen at Roberto Clemente Community Academy, is widely known to have written plays that touch deeply on human nature and eloquently convey timeless themes that are relevant to people to this very day. In the current IB unit of study, the English...
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Ceramic Geniuses
The artistic Wildcats at Roberto Clemente Community Academy have been exploring the medium of ceramics. The students have learned different clay building techniques and various approaches to glazing their artworks. Some students have even tackled wheel throwing! The Wildcats have been scaffolding their learning and slowly mastering these techniques while creating beautiful art pieces...