Category: School News

Highlight 1: Cadet Captain, Sophia Almazar is the first recipient of the JROTC College Bound Medal (CBM). The CBM is awarded to graduating seniors who are accepted into a four year college or university. Sophia has been accepted to two universities. The first school is Valparaiso University which is located in Valparaiso, Indiana. Her acceptance...

This week, the Culinary Arts students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy set out to improve school lunches across CPS. They did this by participating in the tenth annual Cooking Up Change competition. Run by the Healthy Schools Campaign, Cooking Up Change (CUC) is a competition that pits fifteen Chicago Public Schools culinary programs against each...

This week, freshman World Studies students dove into the concept of leadership. By choosing a person they thought might be the greatest leader the world has seen, students began analyzing what makes a good leader and what differentiates a good leader from a good person. Students discussed civil rights heroes like Martin Luther King Jr.,...

The First Amendment guarantees American citizens many rights, among them the right to a free press. Given their experiences with the British government, the founders believed this was essential in protecting the people by providing a check on the government. But, does the press have too much freedom? Should they have more freedom? What happens...

Junior physics students have been exploring the application and consequences of kinematics on a global scale through the lens of transportation. Students began the unit with an introduction to transportation safety and what can happen if vehicles don’t balance the application of kinematics with the consequences of human interaction. After revisiting key terms and ideas,...

“I wish I had tried harder my freshman and sophomore year.” This is a common sentiment expressed by many high school seniors who, in retrospect, now understand the importance of planning for life after graduation, even as underclassmen. Luckily, the sophomores at Roberto Clemente High School have already begun to do so. With one quarter...

In Ms. Makol’s Art 1 class, freshmen recently explored Surrealism. Surrealism is an art movement that started in the 1920s in Paris, in which literary and visual artists tapped the creative potential of the subconscious and dreams to create works of art. Surrealists were inspired by psychologist Sigmund Freud’s research about what dreams and free...