Freshman Connection By: Isabella Garcia-Ding Class of 2019 The week of July 18th – July 22nd, Roberto Clemente High School teachers, staff, and students organized a Freshman Connection Program where 60 of our incoming 9th graders attended. The Freshman Connection program is designed to allow the incoming students an opportunity to be able to socialize...
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Freshman Connection 2016
Freshman Connection 2016 This year’s Freshman Connection was a great success. We had 60 incoming freshman from a wide variety of elementary schools attend this year. In addition to our 60 incoming freshmen, we had about 10 sophomore student leaders. Our sophomores assisted with facilitating games, leading activities, and participated on a panel answering the...
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Varsity Boys Soccer team takes on Jones College Prep in the first home game of the season
On Tuesday, September 9, the Varsity Boys Soccer team took on Jones College Prep in the first home game of the season. It was a hard fought game, with an impressive display by goalkeeper Brandon Espino, who made save after save to keep Clemente in the game. Although Clemente lost 9-0, the team held their...
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Girls’ Volleyball Triumphs Over Mather, Falls to Chicago Academy
On Friday, September 12 the Lady Wildcats won on the road against Mather. It was a well-fought match that went all the way to the third game. In the first game the Lady Wildcats lost 25 to 18 because their serves weren’t going over consistently. Then during the second and third games the Lady Wildcats...
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Zombies Attack: Physics Students Try to Survive the Apocalypse
Zombies Attack: Physics Students Try to Survive the Apocalypse For the final unit in Physics, junior students are learning more than equations and formulas… they are learning how to survive! Zombies have overrun Clemente, Humboldt Park and Chicago and the juniors need to learn crucial survival skills to make it out alive. In order to...
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The Golden Apple Scholarship by Adonijah Scarlett
The Golden Apple Scholarship by Adonijah Scarlett The Golden Apple Scholarship is an award given to students with aspirations to be teachers. This award comes with a scholarship worth $27,000, summer internship programs, as well as job placement. A student may nominate themselves for the award or be nominated by an adult. To be...
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What Do Triangles Have to Do with the Sun?
What Do Triangles Have to Do with the Sun? By: Robert Reyes In our Diploma Programme Math Studies class at Roberto Clemente Community Academy, we have been discussing triangles and how to measure angles in real-life instances. One specific triangle we examined closely was the right triangle and its calculations. We‘ve been measuring triangles in...
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Clemente Archers compete in National Archery Tournament
Clemente Archers compete in National Archery Tournament Greetings for Louisville, Kentucky! On Friday May 13, Clemente’s world-class archers took a 7-hour bus ride south to compete against the top archery teams from all over the nation. After a season full of challenges, including placing lower than expected at several in-state tournaments, our team kept pushing...
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Quadratic Equations in Real Life
This week freshman at Roberto Clemente Community Academy focused on quadratic equations in real life scenarios in their International Baccalaureate Algebra I class. Students began the week by reviewing how to factor through quadratic equations. As students progressed through the week, they began to learn more about how they could use factoring to find x...