By Jerry Vega, Class of 2016 Selected Clemente students got a chance to participate in the Annual Don Hubert Scholars Program at The John Marshall Law School. The point of this experience was to see and learn how the law works and how a real court trial would function. All students who attended this event...
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New Scholarship Recipients Announced
Congratulations to three amazing Wildcats who have received scholarships for $2,000 each! The students are:Daniel Rivera: Daniel is excited to attend Morton College next year, where he can further his academic studies and play baseball. His goal is to either play in the Major Leagues or become a doctor and work in sports medicine. Darrien...
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Chicago City Council Recognizes JROTC Cadets
Mayor Emanuel and the City Council of Chicago recognized 42 JROTC Cadets at the City Council meeting on May 28, 2014. Clemente’s own Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Ashley Roman was among those recognized. The Cadets were recognized for being Commanders of their JROTC unit, receiving an appointment to a service academy, or for receiving a 4-year...
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Class of 2014 Prepares To Graduate
On Friday, May 30th, the class of 2014 finished preparations for graduation. This week has been a week of transitions for our seniors. On Tuesday, students wrapped up final examinations and projects. On Wednesday, students filled out important paperwork and had their Senior Picnic, including basketball tournaments, grilling lunch, soccer and volleyball games and hanging...
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Freshman English Project
Freshman English Project By Saul Aviles, Class of 2017 The freshman class has been working on a unit about perspectives and international genocide. The anchor text is Night by Elie Wiesel. While reading the book, students completed a project in small groups. What that project was about was creating a poster explaining in a creative...
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Culinary Arts Students Visit the National Restaurant Association Trade Show
This week a group of Juniors from the Culinary Arts department were privileged to visit the National Restaurant Association trade show as part of their curriculum. In all, 25 students attended the show along with their instructors to gain a larger overview of the industry as a whole. At the show, the students watched live...
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Fine Arts Extravaganza
On Thursday, May 22nd, many of our freshman participated in their first annual Fine Arts Extravaganza presented by the Clemente Fine Arts Department. The evening celebrated the creative talents of our students and included an art exhibition featuring student work and media presentations, performances by the steel drums, concert bands, and choir, spoken word performances...
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Learning From Each Other: Gallery Walks
Before our sophomore students dove into reading Of Mice and Men, they investigated different economic depressions from around the world. Students researched the causes, effects, and emotional responses to economic depressions in countries like Chile, Mexico, Greece, Argentina, Ukraine, Serbia and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. After conducting their research, students then created posters to share...
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Artwork for Puerto Rican People’s Parade
This fall marks the 40th anniversary of Roberto Clemente Community Academy. To celebrate this anniversary, the school will be highlighted in the 2014 Puerto Rican People’s Parade. Ten students at Clemente created individual posters in a contest for the official poster of this year’s parade. The posters promote the parade’s theme of a culture of...
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Clemente Students Demo 3D Printing
This week, two Clemente senior math classes had the chance to see cutting-edge technology in action when they went to see a live demonstration of a 3D printer on Tuesday, May 13th. Students in Ms. Pooley’s 4th and 5th period College Algebra classes were amazed to see an image on a screen transformed into a...