As the spring approaches, we have two sports teams gearing up for new seasons, boys baseball and girls soccer. Let’s first take a look at our boys, who are excited to start a new journey on the field. We have some returning players from last year that are focused and poised to take on all...
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The Art of Making Art: Senior Art Exhibitions
The Diploma Programme Seniors are getting ready for their Visual Art Exhibition. The Senior Wildcats have been working hard this past year, focusing on a theme of their choice. They have explored different mediums and have done several artist studies where they explore the art-making process for creating their artwork. Students have explored artists from...
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Sophomore Campus Crawl
This past week our entire sophomore class embarked on an adventurous college trip that was not your average college tour. Students visited the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Benedictine University, and University of Chicago, where they participated in a campus-wide scavenger hunt for classes, campus landmarks, and all manner of university offices and academic...
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Clemente Freshmen Create Movies!
International Baccalaureate students in Individuals and Society classes are normally assessed on their ability to communicate using claims, evidence, and reasoning. For Unit 5, however, students were asked to be open minded to communicate using propaganda. Students spent the unit studying different types of propaganda; for example, they studied commercials, World War II historical posters,...
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Lady Wildcats Softball Team Prepare for 2017 Season
Our 2017 Lady Wildcats softball team is preparing for a great season this year. There are great new clusters of student athletes with five returning seniors. We are projected to do well in the blue conference with two returning seniors Jazlin Torres and Chastidy Soto leading the team as captains. Their awesome leadership qualities on...
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Financial Aid Awards Decoded
It’s that time of year! Roberto Clemente Seniors are getting ready for final college decisions and weighing their options. They have been exploring the ins and outs of financial aid award letters with our ISAC (Illinois Student Assistance Commission) representative, Vanessa Del Real. ISAC is an organization through the State of Illinois that connects...
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Wildcats Visit UIC
On March 3rd, Clemente Juniors took a trip to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). This was not your average college trip. Students were assigned homework for a college-level lecture a week in advance. In their English and Social Science classes, juniors read and analyzed the article assigned by their professor for the day,...
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What’s in Your DNA?
Biology students are finishing up their unit on DNA and heredity by researching a genetic disease to present to their class. For the genetic disease research project, students will provide a detailed description of the genetic disease they chose including the genes impacted by the disease and how the disease is inherited. After students complete...
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Newberry Library Field Trip – Student Experience
by Monserrat Soria On Friday, March 10th, my classmates and I had an amazing opportunity to go to the Newberry Library and work with real life documents from WWII. This opportunity only comes once in a lifetime, and I’m personally very grateful that I got to work with documents that were published during that time...
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Roberto Clemente’s JROTC Programs Host the Largest Archery Tournament in Chicago
Last Saturday, our cadet Archers competed in the long-awaited archery tournament, hosted right in their home court. Clemente’s JROTC Archery Tournament is not only the largest archery tournament in Chicago; it is also a special homecoming for graduated archers. This year, 16 schools comprised of over 500 archers participated. Archery is a unique sport where...