Category: School News

RCCA Students Prepare for AP Exams This year the Advanced Placement (AP) sophomores, juniors, and seniors have been preparing for their month of exams. Depending on their test scores, they have the possibility of earning college credit in a variety of classes. AP offers students the opportunity to see the difference between high school and...

Good First Year, Better Second Year and Beyond Written by: Lolito Lindsey, freshman [zoomsounds id=”Lolito”] This is my first year at Clemente High School and so far, it’s a blast! There have been new people to meet with new opportunities to seize; new teachers to be taught by and supporting counselors who are there to...

University of Boston-Massachusetts (UMass) is a public university with the main campus located only minutes away from downtown Boston, and is located next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Presidential Museum. UMass Boston is “nationally recognized as a model of excellence for urban public universities,” according to their main website. In terms of size,...

This week in Chemistry students began a new unit focusing on inequalities of energy within a community. Students started off the week by discussing how inequalities exist within their own Chicago communities and focused on their access to healthy food. Many students noted that they do not think that they have as much access to...

This week was a busy and successful one for some of our culinary seniors at Clemente. The three students pictured with their chef instructor (Erica Hernandez, Chef Leszczewicz, Hannia Vidals, and Shantel Lane) completed the final phase of one of their scholarship competitions. For the final phase, the students were given ingredients and two hours...

Roberto Clemente Community Academy and Pedro Albizu Campos High School Beautify Paseo Boricua On April 30, 2015, a group of students from different grade levels of Roberto Clemente met up with students from Albizu Campos and planted beautiful plants and flowers along the store fronts of Division Street. Bringing beauty to our neighborhood shows we...

Students Create Roller Coasters For the past month, students have been studying energy transfer in the context of amusement parks. They have created their own roller coasters, through which they were able to prove the law of conservation of energy. Now that students have grasped the idea of energy transfer in an amusement park, we...

DePaul University Quick Facts By Omar Ortega Located in Chicago, DePaul University is a private, nonprofit university with ten unique colleges and schools within its system. Founded by Vincentian Roman Catholics in 1898, DePaul became the largest Catholic university (by the number of students) in the United States exactly one hundred years later in 1998....

Student-Led Inquiry This week, students in Miss Schibelka’s World Studies class are working on a project for which they get to study a problem in their society, the systems that are contributing to it, and possible solutions to the issue. The project includes a research component and the creation and presentation of a PowerPoint displaying...

Decision Day 2015 by Ashley Munive This past Wednesday, seniors at Roberto Clemente Community Academy celebrated Decision Day 2015. All seniors who committed to a postsecondary plan (including universities, colleges, the armed forces, and career and technical schools) announced their decisions to their peers in a special ceremony. As part of the all-day events, students...