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Using maps with secret locations marked and riddles to solve, teams of middle school Crusaders participating in CAAP (Crusade Adventure & Academic Program) explored the Brown University campus this summer. A popular checkpoint was the impressive Brown Bear monument on the main quadrangle, where these Crusaders posed for a photo!

On July 17, The Amgen Foundation visited our Ways to A’s study-skills program to present a check for $20,000 to a classroom of Crusaders! During the visit, company representatives Larry Bernard, Thomas Spooner, and Erin Tetreault talked with the group of 9th graders about careers with Amgen and described how their own college experiences prepared [...]

 A group of middle school Crusaders learned the basics of forensic science this month at Wheeler Summer Camp. Instructor Bob Schmidt taught them how to record their observations at a crime scene, how to collect and analyze fingerprints and fibers, and how to do blood typing. Most of all, they learned how to think like investigators, [...]

Middle School Crusade Advisory Board members Melissa Roberts and Santiago Nino chose the topic of obesity as a focus for their community service project this year at Esek Hopkins Middle School. They did research online and produced a pamphlet on what causes obesity and how to prevent it. Their publication, called “Obesity in America and [...]

Middle school and high school Crusaders wrote lots of thank-you letters to friends and supporters of The College Crusade this year. Among the recipients were Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, and Rep. James Langevin, along with generous funders such as Bank of America, Amgen Foundation, Textron, June Rockwell Levy Foundation, Joukowsky Family Foundation, and Andrade-Faxon Charities for Children. In their letters, they described [...]

Shamika Fletcher, College Crusade Advisor at Gilbert Stuart Middle School, reports: “Our community service project this year was a mural created from the vision of the students at Gilbert Stuart. This inspiration was derived from the students’ everyday encounters with one another. The students decided to do a mural to enhance the beauty of their [...]

Many thanks to these Crusaders for all the great work they did this year representing their schools as members of our Middle School Crusade Advisory Board for 2007-2008:
Oyindamola Akingbile, Nathanael Greene Middle School; Rishelly Colon, Dr. Earl F. Calcutt Middle School; Josue Cua, Nathanael Greene Middle School; Kayla Davis, Joseph Jenks Junior High School; Omaira [...]