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College Crusade Advisor Dwayne Clement celebrated recently with Crusader twins Richelene and Cindy Cesar, who are graduating from Mount Pleasant High School this spring. The Cesar twins entered Rhode Island College’s Pathways Through College program in January and have now earned 15 college credits toward their freshman year at RIC, where they will start classes [...]

Graduating this year from: Central High School. Plans to attend: Rhode Island College. Wants to study: Education. Favorite subject: “I love English. I love to read books and to write poetry and essays.” Recently wrote a response to The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. Highly recommends: A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini.  [...]

Graduating this year from: William J. Davies Jr. Career Technical High School. Plans to attend: Suffolk University. Wants to study: International business and computer engineering. Favorite subject: U.S. history. “I like to know about the past and how it reflects on the future, and how we can learn from the past.” Senior project: Building a [...]

Graduating this year from: Woonsocket High School. Plans to attend: Community College of Rhode Island. Wants to study: Business. Favorite subject: Math. Latest accomplishment: Starting his own line of clothing called Breakin’ the Mold. “I believe society has molded people to be a certain way, and I feel called to let people know they don’t [...]

Graduating this year from: Central Falls High School. Plans to attend: University of Rhode Island. Wants to study: Marine biology. Favorite subjects: Oral communications and French 4. Is proud of: “How our senior class came together over the past year.” Favorite Crusade program: Bridge to Success at Roger Williams University. “We stayed on campus for [...]

Estefania Clavijo, a 7th-grade Crusader at Samuel Slater Junior High School in Pawtucket, was named Most Improved Student and was honored by the Pawtucket Red Sox this spring! On May 6, she participated in a recognition ceremony at McCoy Stadium along with dozens of other middle school and high school students from all over Rhode [...]

Providence middle school Advisors Mayamu Kamara and Kevin Montoya will attend the annual Children, Youth & Families at Risk Conference in Baltimore next week, July 19-21. Mayamu (Perry Middle School) and Kevin (Nathanael Greene Middle School) have been hosting afterschool science workshops for Crusaders this year in partnership with a CYFAR grant project at the [...]

On April 28, our high school Crusade Advisory Board gathered to discuss a new college guidebook published by the Center for Student Opportunity, in Bethesda, Md. CSO staff member Joseph Tavares, project coordinator for the College Access & Opportunity Guide, was on hand to run the focus group and to record feedback from Crusaders. The [...]

Graduating this year from: Central High School. Plans to attend: University of Rhode Island. Wants to study: Marketing and sales. Favorite subject: English, especially writing persuasive essays. Recent essay on: “Layers of Evil” in Shakespeare’s Othello. Will start in June: URI’s Talent Development program. Latest accomplishment: Performed his poetry in an adult slam competition at [...]

Graduating this year from: Central Falls High School. Plans to attend: Brown University. Wants to study: Psychology and pre-med. Favorite subjects: Calculus, psychology, and ceramics independent study. Latest accomplishments: Being chosen as class valedictorian. Getting into Brown. Favorite Crusade programs: Crusade Summer Experience at the University of Rhode Island, and the Getting to College Conference [...]