Category: School News

Creating a Documentary Students of Roberto Clemente Community Academy’s Broadcast Technology Program will be immersed in a spectrum of social issues through documentary films. Our CTE (Career & Technical Education) Broadcast Technology Program has partnered with REACT to FILM an organization that aims to educate young adults by leveraging the best issue-based filmmaking to promote...

Creating a Documentary Students of Roberto Clemente Community Academy’s Broadcast Technology Program will be immersed in a spectrum of social issues through documentary films. Our CTE (Career & Technical Education) Broadcast Technology Program has partnered with REACT to FILM an organization that aims to educate young adults by leveraging the best issue-based filmmaking to promote...

Students Investigate Cruel & Unusual Punishment in the Real World Our junior wildcats have spent the last semester exploring the Bill of Rights and its real-life applications. While studying the 8th Amendment, our wildcats have interpreted the meaning of the phrase “cruel and unusual punishment” and its relevance in today’s society. To understand what “cruel”...

Boys Defeat Michelle Clark for the 13th Win of the Year: The Boys basketball team defeated Michelle Clark 61-57 for their 13th win of the year. Junior Joe Rhymes scored 17 points, had 3 assists, 4 rebounds, and went 9-10 from the free throw line. Fellow Junior Richard Labon scored 13 points, 16 rebounds, and...

Exploring IB Spanish for Heritage Speakers at Clemente     The students in our Spanish for Heritage Speakers classes have had lots of exposure to Spanish at home. They have family members that speak to them in Spanish. Some students interact all day, every day, with their parents and siblings in the Spanish language. Others...

Public Speaking: Getting Over Our Fear This week in MYP English 2, Clemente’s sophomores began tackling something that makes everyone feel nervous: presenting in front of a crowd. Students heard their name called, took a deep breath, grabbed their note card, and walked up to the front of the class to face their peers. After...

CULINARY SCHOLARSHIPS by Samuel Santiago Do you like to cook? Do you want to become a chef? Then Clemente’s Culinary Arts Program is for you! Our Wildcats participate in a program called Careers Through Culinary Arts Program(C-CAP). This program provides them with job training and internships, teacher training, curriculum enrichment, college advising, life-time career support,...

Occupational Safety & Health Administration at Clemente Training is TOUGH!   Yet, our dedicated future nurses, paramedics and doctors of the Allied Health International Baccalaureate Career Pathway Programme have conquered step ONE for future certification! As we all know, health & safety of our patients and our staff is our number ONE priority in the...

Running Our Own Presidential Campaigns With all the talk of the upcoming primaries and presidential race, students in Roberto Clemente Community Academy’s Advanced Placement US Government and Politics class were curious about what exactly it took to run a full presidential campaign and be elected into office … So they tried it! In groups, students...

Clemente is going to Sectionals! With the efforts of Charles Perdue, Noah Myers, and Keontay Knox, Clemente now has a ticket to Antioch, Illinois to compete in the Illinois high school association’s wrestling sectional tournament. The tournament is a two day competition held in Antioch, Illinois which requires the team to stay overnight and find...